In 1632 Henry Holland dedicated to Charles I. an English version of the Cyrvpædia of Xenophon, made by his father Philemon Holland. In the dedication, which is signed at length, he says:
"Also, when any unworthy selfe (anno 1620) offred mine owne collections, entituled Herwologia Anglica, unto his highnesse [James I.], he most graciously received it."
In 1614 appeared, under the initials "H. H.," the Monvmenta sepvlchraria sancti Pavli, and in the address ad lectorem we read:
"Et non solùm nomine bonus appellatus est [sc. Alex. Nowel], sed etiam et in vita sua bonitas apparuit, et in morte bona sua opera illum sunt sequuta, et uberiùs et fusiùs in Effigiebus nostris et vitis illustrium Anglorum cum de Coleto tum de illo apparet: (quæ nunc transmarino habitu vestiendæ sunt) quare hic illum pluribus prosequi verbis non est opus."
Here is unanswerable evidence that Henry Holland was the compiler of both works. In the catalogue of the Grenville collection of books, now in the British Museum, both works are ascribed to Hugh Holland.
5. "The edition of 1614 was certainly the first, and that of 1633 certainly the second."—The querist adopts my correction of his threefold error, and calls it an answer!
6. "I shall therefore leave the shade of Cole and MR. BOLTON CORNEY to settle the question as to whether any such work exists."—The querist did not perceive that the Roxana of Alexander was an error for the Roxana of Alabaster—so he endeavours to draw off the attention of his readers from this proof of critical obtuseness by a common-place witticism.
I must describe the facile process by which our querist has obtained his apparent triumph. Wood, at the close of his article on Hugh Holland the poet, which is chiefly derived from the Worthies of Fuller, mentions one Hugh Holland as admitted B.A. in 1570, and another Hugh Holland as matriculated at Baliol college in 1582, aged twenty-four; with others of that surname. He adds, "but whether any of them were authors, I cannot yet tell, or whether the last was the same with the poet. Qu." Now, with regard to the first and second articles, our querist omits the sentence which proves the inapplicability of his quotations! and with regard to the third article, he omits the word afterwards, which forms the gist of the argument.
BOLTON CORNEY.