The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Daily entries from the 17th century London diary

Denzil Holles (Baron Holles)

1893 text

Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at Houghton, Notts, in 1597. He was one of the five members charged with high treason by Charles I. in 1641. He was a Presbyterian, and one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II. at the Hague. Sir William Lower, in his “Relation,” 1660, writes: “All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London were joined.” He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.

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Holles, 1st Earl of Clare, was born in Nottinghamshire in 1599...........
Holles fought at Edgehill but soon afterwards began advocating a compromise settlement. Holles was accused of treason and in 1647 he fled to France. In 1660 he played an important role in recalling Charles II to the throne. On the Restoration Holles was created Baron Holles of Ifield in Sussex. Denzil Holles died in 1680.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/STUholles.htm
God's Wounds!

In 1629, when the English Parliament produced a document censuring the policies of Charles I, the king attempted to dissolve the body. Uproar ensued in the House, as its Speaker, in apparent obedience to the king, prepared to leave the chamber. "God's wounds!" Holles cried. "You shall sit here till we please to rise!" Proceeding to the Speaker's chair, he and another man forcibly held the Speaker in his seat until a document condemning Roman Catholicism and illegal taxes had been read in full.
http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=2943
lenthy piece on his career
http://98.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HO/HOLLES.htm
painting http://www.artunframed.com/images/artmis20/lely...

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