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bap. 11 Oct. 1598, 1st s. of Edward Holland of Heaton and Denton, and Anne (bur. 9 Nov. 1640), da. of Edmund Gamull, alderman of Chester, Cheshire.Prestwich par. reg.; Regs. of the Cathedral Church of Manchester ed. E. Axon (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxxi), 108; Baines, Lancs. ii. 348. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 10 Nov. 1615;Al. Ox. G. Inn 2 Mar. 1618.G. Inn Admiss. 150. m. 30 Oct. 1621, Katherine, da. of William Ramsden of Longley Hall, Almondbury, Yorks., 1s. (d.v.p.) 2da.St Peter, Huddersfield par. reg.; Baines, Lancs. ii. 348; Cheshire and Lancs. Fun. Certs. ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. vi), 204. suc. fa. 5 May 1631;E.S. Holland, Hist. of the Fam. of Holland (Edinburgh, 1902), 123. d. 29 July 1661.The Autobiog. of Henry Newcome ed. R. Parkinson (Chetham Soc. o.s. xxvii), 301.
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Local: j.p. Lancs. 1631 – 11 July 1642, 4 Oct. 1647 – 16 Apr. 1650, c.June 1660–?d.Lancs. RO, QSC/36–7, 48–9, 51, 62; D.J. Wilkinson, ‘The commission of peace in Lancs. 1603–42’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C.B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 43, 58, 64. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 26 Jan. 1643, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660.SR; LJ v. 573b; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Dep. lt. by July 1642-aft. May 1648.Lancs. RO, DDHP/39/8; Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 21; Broxap, Lancs. 161; J.M. Gratton, ‘The Parliamentarian and Royalist War Effort in Lancs. 1642–51’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1998), 155, 158. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 16v. Feoffee, Manchester g.s. 24 Oct. 1660–d.Eg. 2537, f. 283.

Civic: freeman, Wigan by Mar. 1640–?d.;Sinclair, Wigan, i. 216. Liverpool, Oct. 1644–d.Chandler, Liverpool, 326; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 52.

Military: gov. (parlian.) Manchester Sept. 1642-aft. May 1643.Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 161, 333. Col. of ft. Oct. 1642-c.Mar. 1646.Warr in Lancs. 9; Brereton Lttr. Bks. ii. 502.

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HOLLAND, Richard (1598-1661), of Heaton, Prestwich, and Denton, Manchester, Lancs.
: Prestwich and Lancs., Denton.
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Commons 1640-1660
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HOLLAND, Richard (1598-1661), of Heaton, Prestwich, and Denton, Manchester, Lancs.

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Estates
in 1631, inherited manors of Denton, Heaton, Kenyon, Lawton and Sharples; property in Barton on Irwell, Bolton-le-Moors, Denton, Droylsden, Harwood, Kenyon, Lawton, Manchester, Over Heaton, Oxcliffe, Prestwich, Sharples, Wardley and Worsley, Lancs.; and a chapel on the north side of Prestwich church, commonly called Heaton Chapel.DL7/27/42; Lancs. RO, DDKE/acc. 7840 HMC/218; Lancs. IPM ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xvi), 141-7. In 1631, he was assessed at £10 for distraint of knighthood.‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Charles I’ ed. J.P. Earwaker (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xii), 215. In 1661, estate was reckoned to be worth £800 p.a.Oliver Heywood Autobiog. and Diaries ed. J.H. Turner (Brighouse, 1882), iii. 80.
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