cobberds, pot-hangings, hocks, a rack of iron, bowles, and payles.”  The live stock classed among the “moveable goods, consisted of 19 oxen, 28 kyne, 17 young beste, 24 young calves, 12 gots, 4 geldings, 2 mares, 2 naggs and a colte, 229 shepe, 12 swyne, a crane, a turkey cok, and a henne with 3 chekyns”—­the lot being valued at L86 0s. 8d.  Sir Thomas’s marriage with a daughter of the Winnington’s brought much property into the family, including lands, &c., “within the townes, villages, and fields of Aston, next Byrmyngham, and Wytton, Mellton Mowlberye (in Leicestershire), Hanseworthe (which lands did late belonge to the dissolved chambur of Aston), and also the Priory, or Free Chappell of Byrmyngham, with the lands and tenements belonging thereto, within Byrmyngham aforesaid, and the lordship or manor of the same, within the lordship of Dudeston, together with the lands and tenements, within the lordship of Nechells, Salteley, sometime belonging to the late dissolved Guild of Derytenne,” as well as lands at “Horborne, Haleshowen, Norfielde and Smithewicke.”  His son Edward, who died in 1592, was succeeded by Sir Thomas Holte (born in 1571; died December, 1654), and the most prominent member of the family.  Being one of the deputation to welcome James I. to England, in 1603, he received the honour of knighthood; in 1612 he purchased an “Ulster baronetcy,” at a cost of L1,095 [this brought the “red hand” into his shield]; and in 1599 he purchased the rectory of Aston for nearly L2,000.  In April, 1618, he commenced the erection of Aston Hall, taking up his abode there in 1631, though it was not finished till April, 1635.  In 1642 he was honoured with the presence of Charles I., who stopped at the Hall Sunday and Monday, October 16 and 17. [At the battle of Edge Hill Edward Holt, the eldest son, was wounded—­he died from fever on Aug. 28, 1643, during the siege of Oxford, aged 43] The day after Christmas, 1643, the old squire was besieged by about 1,200 Parliamentarians from Birmingham (with a few soldiers), but having procured forty musketeers from Dudley Castle, he held the Hall till the third day, when, having killed sixty of his assailants and lost twelve of his own men, he surrendered.  The Hall was plundered and he was imprisoned, and what with fines, confiscations, and compounding, his loyalty appears to have cost him nearly L20,000.  Sir Thomas had 15 children, but outlived them all save one.  He was succeeded in his title by his grandson, Sir Robert, who lived in very straightened circumstances, occasioned by the family’s losses during the Civil War, but by whose marriage with the daughter of Lord Brereton the Cheshire property came to his children.  He died Oct. 3, 1679, aged 54, and was followed by Sir Charles, who had twelve children and lived till June 15, 1722, his son, Sir Clobery, dying in a few years after (Oct. 24, 1729).  Sir Lister Holte, the next baronet, had no issue, though twice married, and he was succeeded (April 8, 1770),