Primary Sources: Eyewitness accounts of people and events in Tudor England. Sir John Hotham and Captain Hotham. Father-and-son who held Hull for Parliament and tried to wrest command of the Yorkshire Parliamentarians from the Fairfaxes.
They plotted to defect to the King and were executed in 1645. Sir John Hotham, (the elder), d.1645 The eldest son of John Hotham, a Member of Parliament and Sheriff of Yorkshire during Queen Elizabeth's reign. By 1635, Hotham had married five times. Journal of the House of Lords: volume 5 (pp. 38-41) E. of Nottingham's Privilege.
This House being this Day informed, "That one Thomas Hunt, a menial Servant of the Earl of Nottingham, is arrested, contrary to the Privilege of Parliament;" it is Ordered, That the said Thomas Hunt shall be forthwith released of his Imprisonment. "To the Bailiff of Westm. or his Deputy. " Mr. Clark to be Minister of Stisted. Ordered, That this House doth, in Pursuit of their former Orders, recommend Mr. British History Online.