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Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, JP, PC (31 October – 17 February ) was an English statesman, best remembered as one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January sparked the First English Civil War.

When fighting began in August, Holles raised a Parliamentarian regiment which fought at Edgehill before it was nearly destroyed at Brentford in November This marked the end of Holles' military career and he became leader of the Parliamentarian 'Peace Party', those who favoured a negotiated settlement with the king.

A social conservative from a wealthy family, he came to see political radicals like the Levellers and religious Independents like Oliver Cromwell as more dangerous than the Royalists.

Following victory in the First English Civil War, he led those who opposed Cromwell and his supporters, and was one of the Eleven Members suspended in June Recalled prior to the Second English Civil War in June , he was excluded again by Pride's Purge in December and went into exile before being allowed home in After The Restoration of , Charles II made him Baron Holles and Ambassador to France from to , an appointment that proved unsuccessful.

Holles gradually became part of the Whig opposition, backing the Test Act and exclusion in of the Catholic heir, James, Duke of York. He died in February and was buried in Westminster Abbey. One biographer summarised his career by saying; "successful in almost everything he privately undertook, (he was) unsuccessful in almost everything he publicly undertook, (while) his passionate parliamentarianism was constantly counter-productive".

Personal details

Born on 31 October , Denzil Holles was the second surviving son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (c.

–) and his wife Anne Stanhope (–). He had four siblings who lived into adulthood; Arabella (–), who married Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare (–), Francis (–) and Eleanore (died ).

In , Holles married Dorothy Ashley; before her death in , they had four children, of whom only Francis (–) survived into adulthood.

He remarried Jane Shirley in , then six months after her death in March , he married for a third time, to Esther le Lou; both marriages were childless.

Career; prior to

John Holles was a wealthy landowner with substantial estates in Nottinghamshire and Cornwall; in , he purchased a barony for the then enormous sum of £10, and an earldom for £5, in Despite this expenditure, his political career was largely unfulfilled and Denzil Holles has been described as "the angry younger son of a bitter and disappointed father".

From to , Holles was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he apparently became friendly with the future Charles I, followed by legal training at Gray's Inn.

He spent and travelling in Europe and in was elected MP for Mitchell, close to the family's Cornish estates. He made little impact on this Parliament, which was dissolved when James I died in March

Holles was a Presbyterian and like many Puritans^[a] strongly objected to the pro-Spanish policy pursued by Charles I and his favourite, Buckingham; his elder brother John was the son-in-law of English Protestant mercenary Horace Vere, and served with him in the Eighty Years War, as did his younger brother Francis.

After the disastrous Isle of Ré expedition in , Holles wrote to Thomas Wentworth that "since England was England, it received not so dishonourable a blow".

In , he was elected for Dorchester, where his father-in-law had significant influence. He played a prominent role in organising support for the Petition of Right and on 2 March was one of those who famously forced the Speaker to continue sitting, thus preventing Charles dissolving Parliament.

A week later Charles dissolved Parliament, ushering in eleven years of Personal Rule, in which he attempted to regain all the ground lost. Holles, Sir John Eliot and seven others were prosecuted by the Star Chamber and fined; released on bail in October, Holles spent most of the next decade in obscurity.

Career; to

Defeat in the and Bishops' Wars forced Charles to recall Parliament and Holles was elected for Dorchester in both the Short and Long Parliaments.

Shortly after the House of Commons assembled, it was presented with the Root and Branch petition, signed by 15, Londoners; they demanded the expulsion of bishops and an end to "Catholic practices" in the Church of England.

Many viewed these as signs Charles was about to sign an alliance with Catholic Spain, including the French and Venetian ambassadors; this made ending his control over policy vital not just for England but the European Protestant cause in general.

Since respect for the institution of monarchy prevented direct attacks on Charles, the alternative was to prosecute his 'evil counsellors'; in December, Parliament began the impeachment of Laud and Strafford, Holles' former brother-in-law.^[b] Although Holles viewed Archbishop Laud with hostility, his relationship with Strafford meant he was not involved in his prosecution and tried to prevent his execution in May Instead he played a prominent part in negotiations with the Scots Covenanters that led to the Treaty of London in August.

The Commons enacted constitutional reforms including the Triennial Acts and the abolition of the Star Chamber, which the bishops ensured were rejected by the House of Lords; when the Commons responded with the Bishops Exclusion Bill, they blocked that too.

Unlike his colleagues, Holles opposed bishops, not for religious reasons but because he objected to their role in the Lords; as they were also responsible for censorship, their removal led to an explosion in the printing of pamphlets, books and sermons, often advocating radical religious and political principles.

Many Presbyterians were social conservatives and in June Holles demanded restrictions to prevent "this great disorder before it came to a higher pitch and degree".

The outbreak of the Irish Rebellion in October brought matters to a head since although both Charles and Parliament supported raising troops to suppress it, neither trusted the other with their control.

Holles helped John Pym draft the Grand Remonstrance, presented to Charles on 1 December ; this led to the creation of a separate Royalist party, headed by those like Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon who felt Parliament was now seeking too much power. Unrest culminated on 23 to 29 December with widespread riots led by the London apprentices and as a result, bishops stopped attending the Parliament.

On 30 December, John Williams, Archbishop of York, and eleven other bishops, signed a complaint, disputing the legality of any laws passed by the Lords during their exclusion.

Led by Holles, the Commons argued they were inviting the king to dissolve Parliament and thus committing treason; all twelve were arrested.

On 4 January , Charles tried to arrest the Five Members, including Holles, but failed and left London, accompanied by Royalist MPs like Clarendon and members of the Lords; this proved a major tactical mistake, as it gave Pym majorities in both houses.

With both sides preparing for hostilities, Holles was appointed to the Committee of Safety on 4 July , and helped organise the Dorset militia before returning to London to raise a regiment of infantry.

In August, he marched to join the main Parliamentarian army assembling at Northampton and on 23 August took part in one of the first skirmishes of the war at Southam, before joining an unsuccessful attack on Sherborne Castle in early September. At Edgehill in October, his regiment helped prevent a Parliamentarian rout, before being largely destroyed just outside London at Brentford on 9 November.

Career; to

Like many others, Holles had been reluctant to go to war, which divided his family; his cousin Gervase Holles served in the Royalist army, while another relative, William Holles, was killed outside Oxford in March Although not present at Brentford, contemporaries suggested the casualties suffered by his regiment were one reason Holles became a leading member of the Parliamentarian 'Peace Party'.

This caused a breach with Pym, who believed Charles had to be defeated militarily since he would never voluntarily keep commitments he considered forced on him.

In May , a plot was uncovered organised by Edmund Waller, a leading moderate and cousin of John Hampden and William Waller, commander of the Western Association Army. The conspirators intended to take control of London, arrest Pym and other leaders of the 'War Party', and then negotiate with the king.

Although probably aware of the plan, Holles avoided arrest, but the revelation hardened opinion within Parliament against a peace settlement. At the same time, Royalist victories in made Charles unwilling to negotiate until the war turned against him in late ; Holles represented Parliament from November to January Uxbridge negotiations, but these made little progress.

The New Model Army formed in April played a crucial role in defeating Charles, who surrendered in May to the Scots army outside Newark.

However, it was dominated by religious Independents like Oliver Cromwell whom Holles violently opposed, while many members belonged to radical political groups such as the Levellers. As a result, Presbyterians in both England and Scotland viewed the New Model as more dangerous than the Royalists.

The Committee for Both Kingdoms which had directed the war was dissolved in January and replaced by the Derby House Committee, dominated by Holles and his allies.

In return for £,, the Scots handed Charles over to Parliament in February, and he was held at Holdenby House, guarded by troops under Colonel Edward Rossiter, a Presbyterian MP who later married Holles' niece Arabella. By March , the New Model was owed more than £3&#;million in wages and Parliament ordered it to Ireland, stating only those who agreed to go would be paid.

When their representatives demanded full payment for all in advance, it was disbanded but the army refused to comply.

In early June, the Army Council removed Charles from Holdenby House and presented him with their terms for a political settlement, which he rejected. Backed by the Presbyterian-dominated London Militia, the moderate majority in Parliament now demanded he be invited to London for further discussions.

Fearing he was going to be restored without significant concessions, soldiers commanded by Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax entered the city on 7 August and demanded the removal of those viewed as leaders of the opposition. Known as the Eleven Members, Holles was top of the list and although they were not formally expelled until 26 January, he immediately escaped to Normandy.

When the Second English Civil War began in April , Parliament reseated the Eleven Members.

Holles returned to London in August and although the Royalists were defeated again, he kept negotiating with Charles, who still resisted concessions. When agents intercepted communications from Charles to his supporters telling them to disregard any agreement he might make, the Army issued a "Remonstrance" claiming further talks were pointless.

However, on 5 December Holles proposed continuing discussions, which Parliament passed by votes to This resulted in Pride's Purge the next day, when MPs who had voted in favour were arrested by troops as they tried to enter the House; pre-warned, Holles once again escaped to Caen in France.

In exile, Holles refused an offer from Charles II to become his Secretary of State.

He did not take part in the Third English Civil War, although some of his servants were allegedly involved in helping plan a rising in London to coincide with the Scottish invasion. In March , he accepted Cromwell's offer of amnesty for Presbyterian exiles and returned home to Dorset.

Career; and after

The death of Cromwell in September and the resignation of his son Richard in May paralysed the Commonwealth government and ended with The Restoration.

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In April , Holles was elected for Dorchester to the Convention Parliament and formed part of the delegation sent to The Hague to formally invite Charles to return. One suggestion is this was partly to get him out of the way, due to disagreements within the Convention over the terms; Parliamentarian moderates like Holles wanted to restore the monarchy based on the Treaty of Newport, while Royalists demanded a return to the s.

In the end, most of the reforms were preserved, but bishops were restored to the Lords and the Church of England.

Charles appointed Holles to the Privy Council on 5 June and made him Custos Rotulorum of Dorset, while he was also one of the thirty-four commissioners appointed to try the regicides in September and October.

Created Baron Holles of Ifield in April , he became a member of the Lords, then Ambassador to France in July ; this was not a success, since his insistence on strict protocol infuriated the French and Charles resorted to communicating with Louis XIV of France through other parties.

He was recalled in January when France joined the Second Anglo-Dutch War as an ally of the Dutch Republic; on 14 November, the diarist Samuel Pepys recorded "Sir George Carteret tells memy Lord Holles had been with him and wept to think in what a condition we are fallen." In April , he was part of the English delegation sent to negotiate the Treaty of Breda with the Dutch; talks dragged on until the humiliation of the Dutch Raid on the Medway in June led Clarendon to instruct him to agree to terms in order "to calm people's minds" and "free the king from a burdenhe is finding hard to bear".

Despite having been against the war, Clarendon was sentenced to exile for its failure, an act Pepys described as "mighty poor I think, and so doth everyone else".

Holles argued against it and his house in Convent Garden became a meeting place for opposition leaders, including his long time associate Lord Shaftesbury.

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He urged the Lords to vote against the Conventicles Act and like many in Parliament viewed England's alliance with France and involvement in the to Third Anglo-Dutch War as a betrayal of the Protestant cause.

In early , English politics was further destabilised by the prospect of a Catholic monarch when Charles' heir and younger brother James, Duke of York publicly confirmed his conversion, and for the next 18 months, a small group of peers led by Holles and Shaftesbury attacked him in the Lords.

This changed in , when fearing Parliament was about to enact new measures against Catholics and English Dissenters, James proposed pardons for anyone convicted under the Conventicles Act. This initially won him backing from Holles, until Charles demanded he withdraw the idea.

Holles then joined Shaftesbury in opposing the Test Oath Act, which required members to swear an oath of non-resistance to the Crown.

He did so on the grounds Charles had no right to require such measures since they were 'contrary to law', but his demands for restrictions on the monarchy were resented by the king. In "The British Constitution Consider'd", published in , Holles argued the prorogation of Parliament for more than a year was contrary to statute, and called for new Parliamentary elections to guarantee accountability.

He claimed this would mitigate public concern over Charles' moves towards arbitrary government and French interference in English affairs driven by Louis XIV's desire for 'Universal monarchy'.

As a result, he was dismissed from the Privy Council, before being restored during the Popish Plot in , when Charles sought to reach out to his opponents.

During the Exclusion Crisis, a period of political turmoil triggered by attempts to exclude James from the succession, he backed Halifax, who was willing to allow him to succeed with strict limitations, rather than Shaftesbury, who wanted him removed entirely. However, by now he had largely lost his former influence, and in the opinion of one biographer had become "a man out of his time." He died on 17 February and was buried at Westminster Abbey four days later.

Publications

In addition to "Memoirs", which cover the period up until his first exile in , he wrote a number of pamphlets.

Published works include:

• The Case Stated concerning the Judicature of the House of Peers in the Point of Appeals ()
• The Case Stated of the Jurisdiction of the House of Lords in the point of Impositions ()
• Letter of a Gentleman to his Friend showing that the Bishops are not to be judges in Parliament in Cases Capital ()
• Lord Holles his Remains, being a 2nd letter to a Friend concerning the judicature of the Bishops in Parliament
• A True Relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen ()
• The British Constitution Consider'd ()
• Memoirs of Denzil, Lord Holles, from the Year to (published , written –)

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