Sir anthony holland biography of william

In , Cecil persuaded Elizabeth to order the execution of Mary. Afterwards, Elizabeth regretted her decision and temporarily banished Cecil from court. The Queen pretended to be surprised at the execution, and her Secretary, Davison, who affixed the seal to the warrant for the execution, was sent to the Tower, although he is said to have only acted under duress from Cecil and Leicester.

Cecil soon regained the good graces of the Queen. When she did not immediately appoint a successor to Davison, Cecil appointed his son, Robert, as temporary acting Secretary, a position which he retained into the reign of James I. In Cecil, now seventy years old, became deaf, but continued to serve Queen Elizabeth. He collapsed possibly from a stroke or heart attack in Having survived all his rivals, and all his children except Robert and Thomas, Burghley died at his London residence on August 4, , and was buried in St.

Martin's church, Stamford. He was the first Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin between and His younger son, Sir Robert Cecil later created Baron Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, and finally Earl of Salisbury , inherited his political mantle, taking on the role of chief minister and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under King James I.

Her confidence was not misplaced; Cecil was exactly suited to the political situation of England at that time. Cecil was not a political genius or an original thinker; but he was eminently a safe man and a wise counselor, with a rare, natural gift for avoiding dangers. Caution was his predominant characteristic; he realized that, above all things, England required time.

Brilliant initiative and adventurous politics were not necessary; a via media middle way had to be found in Church and State, at home and abroad. He restored the fortunes of his country by deliberation and averted open rupture until England was strong enough to stand the shock. One of his greatest contributions was as a liaison between the Queen and the Parliament.

Cecil was not a religious zealot; he aided the Huguenots and the Dutch just enough to keep them going in the struggles which warded danger off from England's shores. Generally he was in favor of more decided intervention on behalf of continental Protestants than Elizabeth was, but it is not always easy to ascertain the advice he gave her.

He left endless memoranda lucidly setting forth the pros and cons of every course of action; but there are few indications of the line of action which he actually recommended when it came to a decision. How far he was personally responsible for the Anglican Settlement, the Poor Laws , and the foreign policy of the reign, how far he was thwarted by the baleful influence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the caprices of the Queen, remains to a large extent a matter of conjecture.

His participation in the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of was considerable, and it coincided fairly with his own somewhat indeterminate religious views. His personal religious sympathies were with the Puritans, but he considered the political interests of the country best served by a middle-of-the-road Anglican church, which he supported against both Protestant and Roman Catholic extremes.

He had no love for ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and he warmly remonstrated with John Whitgift over his persecuting Articles of , against the Puritans. When this was reported to the committee, again probably by Cecil, they decided to back down, and the final preamble was emasculated. There is no further mention of activity by Cecil in this session, although the Parliament continued into the following January.

He also moved 2 Oct. It is likely that Cecil took part in the debates on the bill to repeal a statute of Edward VI to limit the price of wine in taverns and the number of taverns; notes on the subject in his own hand survive among his papers. A few days before the arrangements for calling the Parliament were completed, Cecil was created Lord Burghley and the remainder of his parliamentary career took place in the calmer atmosphere of the Upper House.

He was frequently called upon to manage conferences between Lords and Commons, sometimes with his son leading the Commons delegation. Burghley was always first and foremost the servant of Queen Elizabeth. His attitude towards the Lower House was conditioned by his overriding concern with furthering her interests, which were often in opposition to those of an increasingly independent House of Commons.

As an electoral patron, his position was anomalous. He was not a territorial magnate like the 2nd Earl of Bedford, or Lord Clinton who overshadowed him in his home county of Lincolnshire. He held comparatively few local offices, and was not among the great men commissioned in and to supervise parliamentary elections in their own counties. Neither did he hold an office, such as the chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster, which would have accorded him authority and influence in a number of parliamentary boroughs.

His power was concentrated at the centre, and consequently the bulk of his parliamentary patronage stemmed from courtiers such as Bedford or local borough patrons such as the Killigrews, who were willing to nominate his followers to seats in boroughs under their control. In Cecil had personal influence in only three boroughs—Stamford, Grantham and Peterborough.

It was considered imperative in to elect MPs to the Commons who would prove sympathetic to the proposed religious settlement and Cecil joined with his relative, Sir Ambrose Cave , chancellor of the duchy, and the 2nd Earl of Bedford, in returning well affected Members. This was the beginning of a long period of co-operation between Cecil and Bedford over parliamentary seats, but after this first crucial Parliament, Cecil rarely attempted to influence returns at duchy boroughs.

The unique circumstances of the election prompted Cecil to make an unusual intervention in county elections. The return of his father-in-law, Sir Anthony Cooke, as junior knight for Essex, before Cooke arrived home from exile, was almost certainly engineered by Cecil, and it is possible that he was also responsible for the return of Sir Thomas Wroth for the junior Middlesex seat.

A channel of patronage which was to be regularly open to Cecil was provided by his relatives, the Killigrews, who dominated the boroughs of Dunheved and Truro. In Cecil appears to have requested a seat at Dunheved for John Carnsew. This brings the total of probable Cecil nominees with the usual qualifications to 14 in The boroughs where he wielded direct patronage now numbered four.

Bedford appears to have provided him with two seats, at Camelford and Liskeard, to which he nominated William Partridge and George Bromley respectively. At Horsham he obtained a seat for Peter Osborne through the Duke of Norfolk and he nominated George Blyth at Huntingdon, a borough often open to court influence. His known nominations to this Parliament number Mawes, where Burghley obtained a seat for William Fleetwood I, was a borough open to court patronage.

His nominees to the Parliament number Burghley returned his son Thomas for the third consecutive time at Stamford in , along with Francis Harington. A seat at Dunheved was once again available to him, to which he returned George Blyth, and he obtained a seat at St. He suffered in the cause of Charles I , and was made a gentleman of the privy chamber by Charles II and knighted.

Holland had made him a grant of the Paddock Walk, Windsor Park , which was confirmed at the Restoration. He died 15 July , aged ninety, according to his epitaph, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. John Evelyn attended his funeral and describes him as "author of two large but mean histories and husband to the mother of the maids". This was an answer to the posthumous book of Sir Anthony Weldon.

Pages —57 are devoted to disproving Sanderson, and in particular to refuting his account of the passing of the Attainder Bill against the Earl of Strafford. Sanderson replied in Post Haste, a Reply to Dr. Peter Heylyn's Appendix 25 June Heylyn rejoined in his Examen Historicum , over two hundred pages of which consist of a searching criticism of Sanderson's historical works.

She was also known as Marjory de Trafford.

Sir anthony holland biography of william

Also, The Lancashire Hollands on page says, "Sir Thurstan's second son, William de Holland , married Marjory, daughter and co-heiress of Henry de Trafford, and so acquired the manor of Clifton in Prestwich, and founded the line of Hollands who held it till the seventeenth century, and have left descendants to the present day. The Lancashire Hollands on page says, "The seal of William Holland of Clifton, attached to a deed of , bore the arms of the Hollands of Upholland, a lion rampant gardant a field seme de fleurs de lys, over all a bend.

But in , as appears from the Herald's Visitation, the Hollands of Clifton had carved on their house as arms, with a second quarter sable, three maidens' heads couped two and one, with the crest of a wolf passant, no longer a lion rampant gardant. There must have been some reason for this singular phenomenon, and it is said that the wolf crest and maidens' heads belonged to a family called de Wolveley, who once owned the manor of Prestwich next to that of Clifton.

The Lancashire Hollands had William de Holland both in the pedigree of the Hollands of Denton and Heaton on page and in the pedigree of the Hollands of Clifton on page Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.