Lady Anne was one of the abandoned daughters and co-heirs of Sir Robert Dudley, formally of Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire.
He was early distinguished in practice at the king's bench,[3] and his opinion was taken by John Hampden in regard to ship-money.
In the great case he was one of Hampden's counsel, and supplied what Oliver St John had omitted in an elaborate argument which lasted for three days, 2–5 December 1637.
[5] While in the house he spoke strongly in favour of the power of convocation to bind the laity, in so far as the canons did not conflict with the law of the land.
[6] Holborne wrote:[6] He also edited William Tothill's Transactions of the High Court of Chancery, London, 1649, 8vo.