The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

Early on, he showed himself antagonistic to the court, to Roman Catholicism, and to the extension of the royal prerogative, and was coupled by Charles II with Denzil Holles as " stiff and sullen men ," who would not yield against their convictions to his solicitations.

In 1624 Holles was returned as Member of Parliament for Mitchell in Cornwall, replacing his brother John who chose to sit for another constituency.

On the outbreak of the Civil War Holles, who had been made lieutenant of Bristol, was sent with Bedford to the west against the marquess of Hertford, and took part in the unsuccessful siege of the latter at Sherborne Castle.

Not long afterwards, however, on 3 June, these proceedings were annulled ; and Holles, who had then returned and was a prisoner in the Tower with the rest of the eleven members, was discharged.

Aware of the plans of the extreme party, Holles threw himself at the king's feet and implored him not to waste time in useless negotiations, and he was one of those who stayed behind the rest in order to urge Charles to compliance.

In March 1654 Cromwell, who in alarm at the plots being formed against him was attempting to reconcile some of his opponents to his government, sent Holles a pass " with notable circumstances of kindness and esteem.

Holles, who was a good French scholar, was sent as ambassador to France on 7 July 1663.

John Hutchins claimed he was told that the Cerne Abbas giant was cut by Holles, who owned the farm.

He coordinated his efforts with a group of other peers who were displeased with the possibility of a Catholic succession ; this group met at the home of Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, and included Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg, James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and George Savile, 1st Viscount Halifax.

She had two children who survived infancy, Harriot Holles Lennox ( 1765 – 1802 / 4 ) and George Lewis Lennox ( b. 1771 ).

In 1629, Hyde was one of the judges who condemned Eliot, Holles and Valentine for conspiracy in parliament to resist the King's orders, refusing to admit their plea of parliamentary privilege that they could not be called upon to answer out of parliament for acts done in parliament.

# On 20 January 1875, to Eleonora Anne, daughter of Francis Holles Brandram, J. P. for the counties of Kent and Sussex, who died in 1896.

According to Samuel T. Worcester's history which was commissioned by the town selectmen in 1878, the town was incorporated in the province of New Hampshire on April 3, 1746, " to have continence forever by the name of Holles ..."

His second son was the politician Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles.

* John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( 1564 – 1637 ) was comptroller of the household to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

* John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare ( 1662 – 1711 ), eldest son of the 3rd Earl, was created Duke in 1694

Pelham, Newcastle's younger brother, was a younger son of the 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton and his wife, the former Lady Grace Holles, daughter of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and Grace Pierrepont.

He opposed Charles I from the start, and took a leading part in the disorderly scene of 2 March 1629, when the speaker, Sir John Finch, was held down in the chair after refusing to put the resolution of Sir John Eliot against arbitrary taxation and innovations in religion ( see Denzil Holles ).

Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC ( 31 October 1599 – 17 February 1680 ) was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.

Holles was the third son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( c. 1564 – 1637 ), by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope.

On 2 March 1629, when Sir John Finch, the speaker, refused to put Sir John Eliot's Protestations and was about to adjourn the House by the king's command, Holles together with another member, Sir Walter Long, thrust him back into the chair and swore " he should sit still till it pleased them to rise.

On 29 October Holles, with Eliot and Valentine, was transferred to the Marshalsea.

Among the papers of the secretary Sir John Coke is a petition of Holles, couched in humble and submissive terms, to be restored to the king's favour ; having given the security demanded for his good behaviour, he was liberated early in 1630, and on 30 October was allowed bail.

Following the end of the Eleven Years Tyranny Holles was elected MP for Dorchester for the Short Parliament in April 1640 and for the Long Parliament in November 1640.

Though he was at first named one of the managers for the impeachment of Strafford, Holles had little share in his prosecution.

" After the failure of the attempt by the court to gain over Holles and others by offering them posts in the administration, he was one of the " five members " impeached by the king.

In June 1643 he was accused of complicity in Waller's plot, but swore to his innocency ; and his arrest with others of the peace party was even proposed in August, when Holles applied for a pass to leave the country.

On his uncle's death in 1711 their eldest son succeeded to the substantial Holles estates and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Holles.

Together with Pym, Holles drew up the Grand Remonstrance, and made a vigorous speech in its support on 22 November 1641, in which he argued for the right of one House to make a declaration, and asserted: " If kings are misled by their counsellors we may, we must tell them of it.

Holles was also appointed a commissioner at the Treaty of Uxbridge in January 1645 and endeavoured to overcome the crucial difficulty of the militia by postponing its discussion altogether.

In return Holles was charged with having held secret communications with the king at Oxford and with a correspondence with Lord Digby ; but after a long examination by the House he was pronounced innocent on 19 July 1645.

On 16 June 1647 eleven members including Holles were charged by the army with various offences against the state, followed on 23 June by fresh demands for their impeachment and for their suspension, which was refused.

It was held by the Lords to be seditious and scandalous ; while for publishing another pamphlet written by Holles entitled The Grand Question concerning the Prorogation of this Parliament ( otherwise The Long Parliament dissolved ) the corrector of the proof sheets was committed to the Tower and fined £ 1000.

The character of Holles has been drawn by Burnet, with whom he was on terms of friendship.

Denzil Holles portrayed by James Bolam in the UK 2003 English Civil War film To Kill a King directed by Mike Barker

He contested, and by some accounts, won a by-election to the seat of Downton in Wiltshire, but Denzil Holles, soon to rise to prominence as a leader of the opposition to the King and a personal rival of Sir Anthony, blocked Cooper's admission to the Parliament.

According to Laud he held out to Strafford hopes of saving his life if he would use his influence with the king to abolish episcopacy, but the earl refused, and Holles advised Charles that Strafford should demand a short respite, of which he would take advantage to procure a commutation of the death sentence.

Charles I tried to arrest him for treason on 3 January 1642, along with John Hampden, Denzil Holles, John Pym and William Strode.

With the coming of the Restoration in 1660, Northumberland attempted to re-enter politics by organizing the Suffolk House cabal, which included Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, Denzil Holles, Oliver St John, and William Pierrepont, and which hoped to force on Charles II the terms offered to Charles I at Newport.

He was sent to the king at Oxford both in 1643 and 1644 to negotiate terms, and the secret communications with Charles on the latter occasion were the foundation of a charge of treason brought against Whitelocke and Denzil Holles later.

* 4 January, Charles unsuccessfully attempts to personally arrest the Five Members ( John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig, and William Strode ) on the floor of the House of Commons

Denzil Holles was created Baron Holles of Ifield in 1661, after his part in the restoration of Charles II of England.

By summer 1643, Bedford had aligned himself with the parliamentary " peace party " headed by Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, which advocated a settlement with Charles I.