In 1590 Holmeden lived in a large house in the parish of St Mary Woolchurch Haw which belonged to his wife's cousin, Sir Thomas Ramsey.
[5] When orders were made by Elizabeth I to transport 24 "Turks and Moors" from England, the Earl of Nottingham as Admiral asked two aldermen and grocers Edward Holmeden and Henry Anderson to find housing for them until shipping to their home countries was available.
Two years later, Thomas Eviseed was asked to pay the expenses for their lodging at sixpence a day, which amounted to a total of £23/2/- (approximately equivalent to £6,704 in 2023.)
[6] The men perhaps included captured galley slaves to be returned home by the Levant Company to Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
[8] Some proclamations addressing London aldermen regarding deportations of "Blackamoores"[9] were drafted for Elizabeth, and a German merchant Casper Van Senden offered to transport people to Spain or Portugal.