John Holt (died 1418) was an English judge of the common pleas who was a native and landowner of Northamptonshire.
[1] On 25 Aug. 1387 he was summoned to attend the king at Nottingham and concurred with his colleagues in pronouncing illegal the proceedings of the last parliament, which had appointed a permanent council.
For this expression of opinion he was on 3 February 1388 arrested while sitting in court, and on 2 March was put on his trial.
He pleaded that he had been compelled to give that opinion by the threats of the Archbishop of York and of the Earl of Suffolk, but he was found guilty by parliament.
In 1391 his manors were granted to his son John, but in January 1397 parliament remitted his banishment, and in the following year his sentence was reversed and his land was restored.