^{page 145 note 2} John, fourth Earl of Clare (1662–1711), married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, whose title was revived in his favour by William III 14 May, 1694.

^{page 145 note 3} Holles calls him “the best of our English antiquaries.” His judgments on some of the other contemporary antiquaries are interesting. Doddesworth he describes as “a laborious searcher into Recordes, but he wanted that judgment and accurate observation which was requisite in making right use of them”. Of Samuel Roper he wrote: “I have been assured by worthy persons that know him well that he hath not beene unapt to forge such fables: a foule thing and very unbefitting a gentlman; but what ugly thing will not that man do that wilbe contrary to his conscience and knowledge (as he hath beene) a traytour to his lawfull soveraigne.” St. Loe Kniveton, the Derbyshire antiquary, he praises as “the most industrious and judicious person” of his time “concerning such recordes as related to our English families.” Richard Gascoyne is dismissed as “that industrious old man very often subject (to my knowledge) to mistakes of inadvertency and want of judgment.”

^{page 147 note 1} Thus Holles' account of the Denzil family amplifies the descent (worked out from his collections in the British Museum) printed in the Ancestor, XII, pp. 119–24; he anticipated in narrative form the mass of evidence for the descents of the Fitz-Hubert, Musard and Frescheville families collected by Sir Fred. Madden (in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, IV); and his account of the Cliftons augments Dr. Thoroton's treatment of that famous Notts family.Google Scholars First Lord Frescheville (1606–82). One of the Knights of the Shire for Derbyshire 1628; fought at the first battle of Newbury; fortified his house at Staveley for the King and was subsequently made Governor of Welbeck. After the Restoration he became Governor of York and was again returned to Parliament for Derbyshire in 1661. In 1665 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Frescheville of Staveley, but he left no heir and the title lapsed on his death.

^{page 148 note 1} First Baronet, 1587–1666. M.P. in 1614, 1621, 1624, 1625, 1626, 1628, 1640, 1661. His seven marriages linked him with some of the most powerful families in the kingdom. Among his familiar correspondents were Sir Thos. Wentworth (to whom he was brother-in-law), the Earls of Newcastle, Kingston and Exeter, Sir Harry Vane and Thos. Hobbes. He was one of the King's Commissioners of array during the Civil War and was in Newark during the final siege of 1645–6.

^{page 149 note 1} Ormerod, , History of Cheshire, II, p. 548.Google Scholar

^{page 149 note 2} Tradition ascribed the site of his dwelling to a piece of land still known in the eighteenth century as the “Hall Piece,” and a note in the parish register made in 1766 records that an inhabitant then aged 83 remembered this field being ploughed, at which time large stones were turned up by the plough. Blyth, , History of Stoke, p. 53.Google Scholar

^{page 150 note 1} He was Warden 1519 and Master 1529.2Foss, , Judges of England V, pp. 339, 545–6. They had a daughter Joan married to one Ashley of Norfolk.Google Scholar

^{page 151 note 1} “Slips transplanted from that soyle for the most part make but ill proofe in the country,” comments Gervase Holies.

^{page 151 note 2} In a Manuscript belonging to the Earl of Leicester (Les Statutes d'Angleterre XXXV) is an insertion, badly rubbed and in parts indeipherable, containing some information about births and deaths in the Holles family. According to this, Thomas Holles had three sons and two daughters. William was probably the second of the sons. Thomas and William Holles, both impubes, were matriculated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, at Easter, 1550. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I, Vol. II.

^{page 151 note 3} Foss, V, pp. 486–7.

^{page 152 note 1} His second wife by whom he had no issue was Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bart.

^{page 152 note 2} He was one of the Knights of the Shire for Notts in the Parliament of 1553. Pink MSS. 304, f. 480.

^{page 152 note 3} Thoroton also speaks of him as “The good Sir William.”

^{page 153 note 1} Third Earl, 1558–1605. Famous as a naval commander and privateer in the war with Spain. His life is in the D.N.B.

^{page 153 note 2} Haughton Hall has vanished, but the ruins of this chapel still stand on the banks of the River Idle.

^{page 154 note 1} 1521–49. He was created a peer 1547 and was slain at Norwich 1549 while helping to suppress Ket's rebellion.

^{page 154 note 2} Pink MSS. 304, f. 466.

^{page 154 note 3} Died 1616. His conduct betrayed clear signs of insanity.

^{page 155 note 1} He matriculated 1593–4. Venn, , Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I, Vol. II, p. 396.Google Scholar

^{page 155 note 2} There is an account of his funeral in H.M.C. 4th Report, p. 289.

^{page 155 note 3} He went over in 1605. Apparently he had protested against the inadequacy of his allowance, but his eldest brother, Sir John Holles, wrote back: “You make your scant allowance the scarecrow of your study. That £30 per annum is too short for a mongrel course betwixt a student and a reveller I confess, but sufficient for such as intend that business only in such equipage as thereunto belongeth”. H.M.C. Portland, IX, pp. 15–17.Google Scholar

^{page 156 note 1} For the Barony he gave £10,000, half of which went to the King and half to Winwood. (Birch, , Court and Times of James I, I, p. 420; Carew Letters (Camden Society), p. 38.) The Earldom was acquired—through Buckingham's agency—for £5,000.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 1} Before he died his income amounted to nearly £8,000 per annum.

^{page 157 note 2} H.M.C. Portland, IX, pp. 8–11, 33.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 3} Birch, I, p. 172.

^{page 157 note 4} H.M.C. Portland, IX, p. 20.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 5} Cal. S.P. Dom., 1611–18, p. 494.

^{page 158 note 1} Although he used the services of Buckingham to secure his earldom Clare was an opponent of the royal favourite “w^ch made the Duke marke his steps and pull him by the elbow when he thought him advancing.”

^{page 158 note 2} He matriculated from Christ's College in May, 1559. Peile, , Biographical Register of Christ's College, I, p. 67.Google Scholar

^{page 159 note 1} So Holles states. But it appears from an entry in the Registers of the Archdeaconry of Notts (transcripts of which by the late R. F. Hodgkinson, Esq., are in the Thoroton Society library) that for a time the young couple resided at Scrooby after leaving Haughton. On 8 May, 1592, Gervase Holles, gent, and Frances his wife of “Scrobye” were charged “for not communicating at Easter last.”

^{page 159 note 2} She died at Horncastle and was buried there, but the inscription on her monument did not record the date of her death. Holles, , Lincoln Church Notes (Lincoln Record Society), p. 183.Google Scholar

^{page 159 note 3} He kissed the King's hand so heartily that James “sware by his soule he was a hearty olde fellow.”

^{page 160 note 1} He left two illegitimate children.

^{page 160 note 2} He probably succeeded Captain Francis Markham who was buried at Boston, Lines, 5 Jan., 1627 (SirMarkham, C., Markham Memorials, I, p. 63). His father also left him his lands in Carlton, near Nottingham.Google Scholar

^{page 160 note 3} They had two sons, but Samuel, the younger, died in infancy.

^{page 160 note 4} He went to Pembroke Hall (2 Oct., 1635), the Master of which, Dr. Benjamin Lany (later successively Bishop of Peterborough, Lincoln and Ely), was a kinsman of his.

^{page 160 note 5} Gervase Holles states that he had ever placed this young cousin “both in my affections and intentions in gradu filii.”

^{page 162 note 1} Their sepulchral monuments in the church there attest them to have been among the leading families in the district. See Nichols, , History of Leicestershire, III, Pt. II, p. 960. Sir William Kingston, who was sent to conduct Cardinal Wolsey to the Tower in 1530, was of this family.Google Scholar

^{page 162 note 2} One of them, Richard Kingston, was Abbot of Wellow in 1518.

^{page 162 note 3} He was of sufficient consequence to be commissioned by Henry VIII in 1542 to raise musters against the Scots. Lincoln Church Notes, p. 9.