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 | | On the 15th of September he was created earl of Holland, and in 1625 was sent on two further missions, first to Paris to arrange a treaty between Louis XIII. |
 | | He was tried before a " high court of justice " on the 3rd of February 1649, and in spite of his plea that he had received quarter was sentenced to death. |
 | | Lord Holland married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Walter Cope of Kensington, and, besides several daughters, had four sons, of whom the eldest, Robert, succeeded him as 2nd earl of Holland, and inherited the earldom of Warwick in 1673. |
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