ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. – Denzil Baron HOLLES. Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. – Denzil Baron HOLLES. Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the Year 1641, to 1648. London: for Tim Goodwin, 1699. 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Toning, stamps verso title.) Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked, label to spine). Note: Holles was one of the ‘Five Members’ who Charles I attempted to have arrested in the House of Commons on January 4th, 1642- one of the events that ignited the civil war. A few years earlier, in 1629, Holles had held down in his chair the House of Commons Speaker, Sir John Finch, in an attempt to pass laws against Charles I’s arbitrary policies. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns). – And a further four volumes (‘The Three Brothers; or, The Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert, and Sir Thomas Sherley, in Persia, Russia, Turkey, Spain, etc.’, 1825, 8vo, and ‘The History of Richard MacReady’, published in Lindfield, 1832, 16mo, and [Thomas Blount’s] ‘Boscobel: or, The History of His Sacred Majesties Most Miraculous Preservation’, 1809, small 4to, and Thomas Medwin’s ‘The Shelley Papers: Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley’, 1833, 8vo) (5).

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