Family and Education
s. of Denis Hollister of Westerleigh, Glos. educ. appr. 10 Apr. 1629 to Anthony Kelly, grocer of Bristol.Bristol RO, 04352/5, f. 103v. m. 24 June 1638, Bridget (d. 13 Oct. 1671), da. of Edmund Popley of Bristol, 1s. d.v.p. 4da. d. 13 July 1676.Bristol St Nicholas par. reg.; Bristol RO, 04421/3, f. 150; PROB11/351, f. 292; Minute Bk. of the Men’s Meeting, 204; Records of a Church of Christ ed. Hayden, 294.
Offices Held

Civic: burgess, Bristol 12 July 1641–d.Bristol RO, 04359/2, f. 302v.

Local: recvr. of taxes, Devon c.1643–5. 28 Oct. 1645R. Farmer, Sathan Inthron'd in his Chair of Pestilence (1656), 46; CSP Dom. 1661–2, pp. 346, 432, 450. Commr. for Bristol,; assessment, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Bristol militia, 22 June 1648;LJ x. 341b. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659;A. and O. propagation of the gospel in Bristol, 14 July 1651.Records of a Church of Christ ed. Hayden, 103. J.p. Glos. 13 Sept. 1653–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 267; C193/13/5, f. 44. Commr. sequestration, Som. Sept. 1659.SP23/264, p. 53.

Central: cllr. of state, 14 July 1653.CJ vii. 284b. Commr. admlty. and navy, 28 July 1653.A. and O.

Religious: leading elder, Broadmead Independent congregation, Bristol by 1653–4.Farmer, Sathan Inthron'd, 46–7.

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Commons 1640-1660
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HOLLISTER, Denis (d. 1676), of High Street, Bristol.

Will
1 Sept. 1675, pr. ?1 July 1677.PROB11/351, f. 292.
Estates
at d. White Hart inn, Broad St.; two houses, Maryport St., one bought Jan. 1653, one June 1660; house in Friars Orchard, par. of St James; warehouses in par. of St Peter, Bristol; houses at Almondsbury and Frampton Cotterell, Glos.; tenement at Westerleigh, rented from dean and chapter, Wells cathedral.Bristol Reference Lib. ms BZ6209; Bristol RO, 26166/82; PROB11/351, f. 292.
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