And in another place (p. 65., folio; vol. i. p. 136., 8vo.), he gives an extract relating to Day, Bishop of Chichester:—
"Sed Ricardus Cicestrensis, (ut ipse mihi dixit) non subscripsit."
Hence the Register would seem to have been a sort of chronicle, kept by the rector of Petworth; and it does not appear whether it was or was not in the same volume with the register of births, marriages, and deaths. In the latter case, it may possibly be still in the Petworth parish chest; for the returns to which your correspondents refer, would probably not have mentioned any other registers than those of which the law takes cognizance. On the other hand, if the chronicle was attached to the register of births, &c., it may have shared the too common fate of early registers; for, when an order of 1597 directed the clergy to transcribe on parchment the entries made in the proper registers since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, they seem to have generally interpreted it as a permission to make away with the older registers, although there are cases in which the proper books are still preserved. (I am myself acquainted with two in this neighbourhood; and J. S. B., if I am right in identifying him with the author of the very curious and valuable History of Parish Registers, can no doubt mention many others.) But how did Heylyn, who collected most of his materials about 1638, get hold of the book?
J. C. ROBERTSON.
Bekesbourne.
Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli" (Vol. ii., p. 265.; Vol. iii., p. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 62.).—Sir Egerton Brydges, in his Censura Literaria, vol. i. p. 305., attributes this work to Henry Holland. In his notice of Heroologia Anglica, he says:
"The author was Henry Holland, son of Philemon Holland, a physician and schoolmaster at Coventry, and the well-known translator of Camden, &c. Henry was born at Coventry, and travelled with John, Lord Harrington, into the Palatinate in 1613, and collected and wrote (besides the Heroologia) Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli, Lond., 4to.; and engraved and published A Book of Kings, being a true and lively effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present, &c., 1618. He was not educated either in Oxford or Cambridge; having been a member of the society of Stationers in London. I think it is most probable that he was brother to Abraham Holland, who subscribes his name as 'Abr. Holland alumnus S. S. Trin. Coll. Cantabr.' to some copies of Latin verses on the death of John, second Lord Harrington, of Exton, in the Heroologia; which Abraham was the author of a poem called Naumachia, or Holland's Sea-Fight, Lond. 1622, and died Feb. 18, 1625, when his Posthuma were edited by 'his brother H. Holland.' At this time, however, there were other writers of the name of Hen. Holland.—(See Wood's Athenæ, i. 499.)"
J. Y.
Hoxton.