ame of Holt is applied to a number of towns and parishes iii
Thus : Holt, a market town and parish in the county of
, haying an ancient church, a shire hall, a work house and
ar school founded by Sir J. Gresham in 1654, an excellent
and a scholarship and fellowship at Sidney college, CamHolt, a parliamentary and municipal borough of North
county of Denbigh. Also parishes in counties of Worcester,
‘ er, Dorset, and Wilts. It is also the name of an island in
cific ocean in the Low archipelago.
irding to Dugdale, Burke, and other writers on English
)gy, there appearj to have been two prominent families
name: known as the Aston family of Holtes of Warwickwhose estates were situated near Birmingham, and the 6
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Grizzlehurst family, of Lancaster. Of this last family,
notable person was Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice of tl
Bench. And of the former family, Sir Charles Holte, ■
friend of King Charles I, who built the elegant mansion
Aston Hall, at which place he entertained the king
disastrous battle of Edge Hill.
Sir John Holt died at his seat at Redgrave (the former
of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Seals to ...