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He was present at the battle of Edgehill in October 1642, where he courageously held his position and tried to rally the troops scattered by Prince Rupert's charge. Baber, however, had also put Holles directly in touch with Barrillon, who had previously only followed Holles’ activities through the reports of de Ruvigny. 27 Feb. 1680.3
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On 20 April 1661, he was created first Baron Holles of Ifield in Sussex. His dramatic offer appears to have been declined, but he joined in the protest of that day, which rejected the proposition that the previous protest had been derogatory to the honour of the House.84
In May Holles was at the heart of the dispute with the Commons over the case of Sherley v.
He was one of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty that ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667. In the hearings surrounding the appeal of York’s favourite, Louis de Duras, 2nd earl of Feversham, against a chancery decree against him, Holles joined with Shaftesbury in arguing that the House still had to obey the rules of equity (by which Feversham would lose his case) even if it did act as the highest court of the land, ‘for though we are above forms, yet certainly we are not above rules’.102 He last attended on 10 July, shortly before the end of the session, having sat on 29 days (two-thirds of the session), and been named to 21 committees.
Holles was absent when the next session convened on 21 Oct.
1678. Extraordinary press of noble company, and great mirth all the day. In the session, up to the adjournment in April 1670, he attended on 15 days (almost 36 per cent of the total) and was named to 10 committees. Fagg, which raised the issue of the right of the House of Lords to summon and hear Members of the lower House in appeals.
On 5 May he was named to report a conference with the Commons on a petition they had received from the Company. He was one of the principal members of the commission which negotiated the Isle of Wight Treaty with Charles I and he presented these terms to the Commons on 4 Dec. 1648. 21 June 1640), da.
Although he is marked as present in the attendance list for 26 Apr. ‘his sickness forced him out of the House’ and he was not able to put his name to the protest against the commitment of the bill made that day. On 16 May, stricken with gout, he left the chamber again, this time never to return, being noted as absent from a debate on the bishops on 19 May as ‘his gout has changed his stomach for his foot’.111 He had attended 17 days of the session, 28 per cent of the total, and had been named to a further six committees.
But concerning the Protestant Dissenters, there is to be nothing more or less than that the king (from Lady Day next) hath taken off his licences’.81 According to the Venetian secretary in England, in response to the proposed crackdown, Holles, Halifax, Carlisle, and Dorchester had ‘asked for time to examine it that the laws might not be disadvantageously enforced’, but York had been responsible for any limitation of the order to the execution of the penal laws.82 Meanwhile, Shaftesbury, absent in Dorset, wrote his much copied and published letter to Carlisle, in which he insisted that no offer of a position at court would deflect him from his goal of ensuring the dissolution of the present Parliament, and instructed Carlisle to distribute copies to Holles, Salisbury, and Fauconberg, ‘and when you four command me up [to the capital] I shall obey’.83
Holles first attended the April–June 1675 session on the fourth day, 16 April.
of safety 1642,4 Uxbridge negotiations 1645, admiralty 1645, propositions for relief of Ireland 1645, abuses in heraldry 1646, exclusion from sacrament 1646, bishops’ lands 1646, indemnity complaints 1647, compounding 1647, appeals from Oxford 1647, scandalous offences 1648,5 trade 1660–72, plantations 1660–70, appeals for prizes 1666;6 council of state 25 Feb.–31 May 1660;7 commr.
In this part of the session he attended on 99 days, 79 per cent of the total, and was named to a further 27 committees. by 1635-d.;12 Dorchester Friary, Dorset, 1635-d.;13 Pepperharrow House, Surrey, 1642-d.;14 13-14 Great Piazza, Covent Garden, Westminster, 1644-52; 43 King Street, Covent Garden, Westminister, 1666-d.15
Before the Restoration
Holles, the second and favourite son of John Holles, created earl of Clare in 1624, began his long parliamentary career that same year when his elder brother was returned for borough seats in both Nottinghamshire and Cornwall, and bequeathed the west country seat to Denzil.