Visitations & Pedigrees
Knights of Edward I, pp. 236–237, Harleian Society publication, 1929.
Le Neve’s Pedigrees of Knights, pp. 336–337, Harleian Society publication, 1873.
Holt of Gristlehurst, Raines MSS, Vol. 12, p. 268.
Holt of Stubley, Raines MSS, Vol. 3, p. 303.
Thomas Benalt — The Visitation of Lancaster and a Part of Cheshire, made in the 24th year
of the reign of King Henry VIII (AD 1533). Edited by William Langton, 1876–1882, 2 vols.
(Chetham Society, Vols. 98 & 110), pp. 53–54.
William Flower — The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567.
Edited by F. R. Raines, 1870 (Chetham Society, Vol. OS 81).
Richard St. George — The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613,
pp. 39, 91. Edited by F. R. Raines, 1871 (Chetham Society, Vol. OS 82).
Sir William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms — The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster,
made in the years 1664–1665. Edited by F. R. Raines, 1872–1873, 3 vols.
(Chetham Society, Vols. 84, 85, 88).
Visitation of the County of Suffolke — Holt Pedigree from Lennard’s copy of the 1561 visitation;
Collinge Pedigree, Harleian MS 890; Holt Pedigree, Visitation of London 1633–1634, pp. 47, 49.
The Visitation of the County of Oxford, 1566, taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux, p. 173.
The Visitation of London, 1568, taken by H. Stanford, pp. 27, 121.
The Visitation of Surrey, 1662–1668, taken by Sir Edward Bysshe, Kt., Clarenceux, p. 39.
The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux, p. 52.
Holt Family (Castleton Hall), H. Brierley’s Record Book, p. 262.
Catalogue of the Heralds’ Visitations, British Museum, 1825.
Formation of the Coat of Arms — The British Library:
Harl. 891, pp. 96v, 100v; Harl. 1437, pp. 38, 92; Harl. 1468, pp. 62–62v, 102v;
Harl. 1549, pp. 7v, 59v–60; Harl. 2076, pp. 12v–13; Harl. 2086, pp. 17v–18, 24v;
Harl. 6159, p. 44.
Walford’s County Families of the UK, 1904.
Robert Holt Leigh — Dissertation by Tom Ferber.
Lee’s Heraldica Lancastria, p. 200.
