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 HOLLES. 245 leading, though not intemperate part in opposition to the Crown, but being imprisoned and heavily fined, by the Star Chamber. He fought against the King at Edgehill. lie was one of the Governing Council between the dissolution of the Long Pari., and the meeting of the Convention. At the restoration he was made P.C. and was cr. 20 April 1661 (*) BARON HOLLES OF IFIELD, co. SuBsex. Ambassador to Paris, July 1663 to May 1667, in which year he was one of the negotiators of the treaty of Breda. He Bl. firstly -1 June 1626 at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Dorothy, only da. and h. of Sir Francis Ashley, of Dorchester, Dorset, Serjeant at Law, by Anne, da, and coheir of Bernard Samwayes, of Toller Fratrum, Dorset, and Grace his wife. She d. 21 June 1640, and was bur. at St. Peter's Dor- chester. He m. secondly, 12 March 1641/2, Jane, widow of John Freake, relict formerly of Sir Walter Covert, 1st da. and coheir of Sir John Shirley, Bart., of Isfield, Sussex, by Jane, da. of Sir Thomas Shirley, of Wistou, in thai co. She, who was hup. a Jan, 1596/7 at Isfield, d. at Paris and was bur. 25 April 1666, at Iwerne Courtuay, Dorset. Her will, dated 31 July 1658, pr. 13 April 1667. Hem. thirdly 14 Sep. 1666, at Westm. Abbey, Esther, widow of James Richer, of Cam- bernon, in Normandy, 2d da. and coheir of Gideon Le Lou, of Colembiers in that province, which lady was naturalised by act of Pari,, 8 Feb., 1667. He d. 17 Feb. 1679/80, aged 81 years, 3 months and 16 days, and was bur. 10 April 16S0, at St. Peter's, Dorchester (l>). Will dai. 26 July 1670 to 9 March 1678/9, pr. 27 Feb- 1679/80. The will of his widow (who appears to have been living 22 June 1684), is dat. 24 Aug. 1683 (she being then ill at Deschamp, in Lieury, France), and pr. 23 Dec. 16S4. In it she directs her burial to be at St. Peter's, Dorchester. II. 1680. ~. Francis (Holles), Baron Holles of Ifield, only surv. s. and h., by first wife ; b. at Dorchester, 19 Aug. 1627. He had, v.p., been cr. a Baronet 27 June 16C0, as " Winterbourne St. Martin, co. Dorset." He sue. to the peerage 17 Feb, 1079/80. He m. firstly (Lic-Fac.l, 22 Aug. 1661, in Westm, Abbey, Lucy, 3d and yst da. of Sir Robert Carr, 2d Bart, of Sleaford, co. Lincoln, by Mary da. and coheir of Sir Richard Gargrave, of Kinsley, co York. She </. 15, and was bur. 25 Sep. 1667, at Ifield, Sussex, in her 32d year. Admon. 22 Feb. 1668 '9. He m. secondly (Lie Fac), G June 1670, at Kensington, Ann, 1 st da. and coheir of Sir Francis Pile, 2d Bart, of Compton Beauehamp, Berks, by Margery, da, of Johu BUNTBACH, of Sewull, Co. Stafford. She d. at Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, Midx, S March, 1681/2, and was "invaulted" 4 May following, at Ifield, aged 41 years, 10 months and 21 days. He d. 1 March 1689/90, aged 63, at Aldeuham, Herts, and was "invaulted" (as late as) 11 July 1692, at Ifield. Will ( c ) dat. 3 Sep. 1680, but not pr. till i March, 1694-5. ■!. Dexzill (Holles), LSarox Holles op Ifield, f 1661], III. 1G90, and also a Baronet [1660 J, only surv. s. and h., by second wife; 6. to 26 April, and bap. 13 May 1675 at St. Martin 's-in-the-Fields ; sue. to 1692 1 the peerage 1 March 1689/90 ; He d. uum., and underage, probably in 1692 ( ll ), when all his honours became extinct. Admon. 10 Feb. ( n ) See vol. ii, p. 275, note "'a," sub. "Clarendon," for a list of the creations (6 Earls and 6 Barons), on that (th e coronation) day. ( b ) Lord Clarendon Bays of him that he " was as much valued and esteemed by the whole party as any man ; as he deserved to be, being of more accomplished parts than any of them, and of great reputation by the part he acted against the Court and the Duke of Buckingham." Bp. Burnet, writes of him as "a man of great courage and as great pride." (o) He gives directions in his will for the erection of various monuments to many of his relations, setting forth the inscriptions to be placed thereon, which contain much genealogical matter. He uses the term of " Baimicttess " for his late wife, Lucy ; he mentions his son as " called Sir Denzcll Holies, Baronet," apparently on the theory that the s. and h. ap. of a Baron (who was also a Baronet) was entitled v.p. by courtesy to his father's Baronetcy. ( d ) It seems not improbable that he was buried at Ifield on the same day that his father's remains (having been removed from Aldenham) were " invaulted " there. There is a double entry of burials in the Ifield register under the date of 1692 as under : — " Francis, Lord Holles was invaulted iu the n . . . . " [again], " Francis, Lord Hollis, Baron of Ifield .... in Hartforfohire was invaulted in the ... . church belonging to him." One of these may possibly refer to Dcnzill, Lord HoUes.