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 CLARE 247 by writ directed Ricardo dc Clare, whereby he is held to have become LORD CLARE. (^) He in. Joan, who surv. him and was living 20 Apr. 1322. He d. 7 June isiSjC") as it is said in battle at Dysert in Ireland, leaving Thomas de Clare, his only child and h., who d. unm. and a minor (writ for Inq. p.m. 10 Apr. (i 32 1) 14 Edw. II), when any hereditary barony which may be supposed to have been cr. by the writ of 1309 became extinct.^') EARLDOM. I. John Holles, of Haughton, Notts, s. and h. of Denzill H. (who d. v.p. 12 Apr. 1590), of Irby, co. Lin- I. 1 624. coln,('*) by Eleanor, da. of Edmund (Sheffield), i st Baron Sheffieldof BuTTERwiCK.E,was^. iVIay 1 564, at Haughton, being above 26 years old when he sue. his grandfather, 15 Jan. 1 590/1 ; was ed. at Christ's Coll. Cambridge, and at Gray's Inn, London ; served in the Netherlands, and against the Armada in 1588; was a Captain in Ireland, where he was knighted 15 Oct. 1593 by the Lord Deputy; served also in Hungary against the Turks, and in Spain, 1597, under the Earl of Essex. He was one of the Gentlemen Pensioners; M.P. for Notts, 1604-1 1 and 1614; Comptroller of the Household to the Prince of Wales, 1610-12. On 9 July 1 61 6, he was cr.{^) BARON HOUGHTON [HAUGHTON], OF HOUGHTON, co. Nottingham, and on 2 Nov. 1624, EARL OF CLARE,(^ CO. Suffolk. He;;;., 23 May 1591, at Shelford, Notts, Anne, da. of (^) As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title see Appendix A in the last vol. C') On 8 Aug. 1318 the lands in Ireland late of Richard de Clare were committed to Maurice de Rocheford. [Fine Roll). V.G. {^) His coheirs were the sisters of the Baron, viz. (i) Margaret, then wife of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, and (2) Maud, then wife of Robert de Welle [and Lord Welle], but who had previously m. Robert de Clifford [ist Lord Clifford (1299-1314)]. C^) This Denzill was s. and h. ap. of Sir William Holles, of Haughton afsd., who was 2nd s. of Sir William H., Lord Mayor of London 1539-40. V.G. (') Both peerages were obtained by the influence of the Duke of Buckingham, the then Court favourite, to whom he paid ^^ 10,000 for the Barony, and ;r5,ooo in addition for the Earldom, the last being probably above the average price as having been hitherto a Royal dignity; see infra, note "f." The preambles to both these patents are in Collins' Noble Families, 1752, pp. 87-89. G.E.C. "Sir John Roper [Lord Teynham] and Sir John Holles lorded at ^^10,000 apiece, July 161 6." (Journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham). V.G. Only six years before the title of Clare had been refused to the Lord Rich (who thereupon selected that of Warwick), " because the title of Clare, which is the same as that of Clarence, was a higher honour than could well suit with a family in a manner upstart." See Camden's Annals of James I. In Collins' Noble Families, p. 89, the following remarks on this creation are made by Gervase Holles, the antiquary. " It was not a little wondered at that he could obtain this title of Earl of Clare, for the Lord Rich (when he was cr. Earl) did very much desire this title, and the King's Council, after several debates about it, concluded that since the time that the first Earls of