. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED MANCHESTER ; He died about 1548, and in that year licence of entry, without proof of age, was granted to Ed- ward Holland, his son and ; Edward, who was sheriff in 1567-8," died in 1570, holding the family estates, probably with some increase, the manor and lands in Denton being held of Nicholas Longford in socage by a rent of 15 ^; His son and heir, Richard Holland, twenty-four ycnTS of age, married Margaret one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir Robert Langley of Agecroft,
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED MANCHESTER ; He died about 1548, and in that year licence of entry, without proof of age, was granted to Ed- ward Holland, his son and ; Edward, who was sheriff in 1567-8," died in 1570, holding the family estates, probably with some increase, the manor and lands in Denton being held of Nicholas Longford in socage by a rent of 15 ^; His son and heir, Richard Holland, twenty-four ycnTS of age, married Margaret one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir Robert Langley of Agecroft, and appears to have acquired a great addition to his Heaton estates.'' He built a house at Heaton, and resided there and at Denton.'" The former place soon became the principal seat of the family, and there Richard Holland died on 2 March 1618-19 holding, among other estates, the manor of Denton and lands, &c., in the township of Edward Mosley in socage by a rent of 12^1/. He had no son, his heirs being his fire daughters or their issue, and the estates went to his brother ; Edward also died at Heaton on 5 May 1631, leaving a son Richard, thirty-six years of ; This son was the Colonel Richard Holland who was one of the chief Parliamentary leaders in the county during the Civil War, being a strict Puritan ;" he assisted in the defence of Manchester in 1642," though he advised its surrender ;'' he also served at the taking of Preston,'* at Nantwich," and at ; He represented the county in two of Cromwell's Parliaments, 1654 and ; He died in 1661, and his only son Edward having died before him, the inheritance went to a brother Henry, and then to another brother, William.*" The latter was living at Heaton in 1664, when a pedigree was recorded ;*'. OtMNyVJ^ueM^io-- " One Richard Holland was knighted during the Scottish expedition of 1544, but his arms arc given as ' per fessc azure and gules, three fleurs
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