This section summarises the documentary references to the Holt family found in the
Victoria History of the County of Lancaster (1906). These entries reflect
landholding, tenancies, and legal transactions recorded in medieval Lancashire.
| 1290 |
Henry de Holt gave a barn to the abbot of Stanlaw, which Peter de Chester had
held for life (Vol. 6 p. 505).
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| 1311 |
John del Holt was a tenant of 1 oxgang of land paying 2s 3d – Read Manor in
Clitheroe. He held lands in Read and Simonstone. This passed to his son John in
1330. In 1333 he granted leave to the monks of Whalley to quarry stone in the
wastes of Read. In 1350 he received a messuage and land from Adam de Read
(Vol. 6 p. 503). He also acquired land in Townley named “The Holt” (Vol. 6 p. 506).
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| 1317 |
Robert de Holt and Agnes his wife received a messuage and land from Peter
Radcliffe, father of Agnes, in Jordan Houstead (Vol. 6 p. 401). They also received
a messuage and land in Chirche from Roger de Cattelow, rendering a rose annually
(Lancashire Fines 1308–1377).
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| 1320 |
Henry, son of Thomas de Holt, issued a release to John de Holt (Vol. 6 p. 505).
A survey recorded Geoffrey, son of Hugh del Holt, as a free tenant of a messuage
and 5 acres in Shaw Head, Heaton, rent 8d; and Hugh del Holt holding a messuage
and 18 acres in Heaton, rent a pair of gloves and 4d (p. 324).
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| 1329 |
After the death of John de Holt, who held a messuage and land in Read, an enquiry
found his heir to be a son William aged 26 — likely a different Holt family
(Vol. 6 p. 505).
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| 1330 |
Geoffrey, son of John del Holt, was granted land in Stakehill and Gooden in 1330
and 1337 (p. 222). In 1353 he purchased one‑sixth share of additional land.of the
manor of Rochdale. Stubley old hall, on the south side of the road between Rochdale
and Littleborough, 3/4 mile from Littleborough, was the seat of the Holt family. He
was killed at Spotland in 1372 - shot with arrows.
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| 1331 |
John de Holt of Colne and another of Read contributed to the subsidy of 32/33.
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| 1342 |
John, son of John de Simonstone, granted lands in Mikerode, Littlerode and Oldhey
to Adam del Holt and Maud his wife (Vol. 6 p. 499).
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| 1345 |
Geoffrey, son of John del Holt, gained on payment of 40 marks the right for him and
his heirs to lands in Bury, afterwards called the manor of Chesham (p. 222; also
Lancashire Fines 1308–1377).
In 1355 John and his son Roger appear in a claim to lands in Tottington.
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| 1346 |
Salford Hundred — Roger Kay was charged with having cut down John del Holt’s trees.
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| 1349 |
Hugh del Holt acquired Ashworth through marriage to Maud Ashworth.
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| 1351 |
John del Holt of Salfordshire and his sons Geoffrey and Roger were among the
defendants in the Pilkingtons’ claim for the manor of Bury.
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| 1370 |
Hugh del Holt, brother of Geoffrey (son of John), granted lands in Bury and
Middleton to his son Robert, and some to younger sons Hugh and John.
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| 1382 |
Case brought by Maud, widow of Hugh de Holt of Ashworth (p. 265).
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| 1385 |
John Chesynhale del Holt, on receiving 10 marks, remitted all right to a rood of
land and a messuage in Wrightington to William de Hexham.
John del Holt senior paid fines for various writs of different dates
(Lancashire Fines p. 59).
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| 1386 |
John del Holt of Chesham died. His heir was Robert, a grandson, son of his own son
Geoffrey.
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| 1388 |
Robert, son of Geoffrey, was granted messuages and lands in Hundersfield (parish of
Rochdale), Spotland, Middleton, Bury and Henton Norris (Lancashire Fines p. 31).
Robert probably died in 1401, based on a guardianship claim by the Greenhalghs
regarding his heir.
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| 1395 |
John de Holt was granted the manors of Ashworth and Rochdale.
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| 1397 |
John del Holt (chaplain) granted three messuages and land in Bury and Tottington to
Henry and Alice Greenhalgh (Lancashire Fines p. 52).
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