HOLM, (Nottinghamshire) on the Trent, a hamlet of North-Muskam, bel. to Rufford-Abbey till the Ref. when Hen. VIII. gave
it to George E. of Shrewsbury. It bel. not a great while ago, to Sir Tho. Barton, whose ancestor, a merchant of the
slaple, built a handsome house here, and a chapel as big as many p. Chs. In the windows of the house he caused these
verses to be set, as an acknowledgment of the Divine blessing, which attended the means whereby he got his estate, viz. "
I thank God, and ever shall, " It is the sheep that paid for all." The estate was lately in the possession of Ld.
Bellesis, sometime governor of Newark.