Hugh Holland

, Son of Rob. Holland (by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh) Son of Lewys Holland, Son of Llewellin, Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre, by Gwervilla his Wife, Daughter of Howell ap Madock, ap Jem, ap Einion, was born at Denbigh, bred in Westminster School, while Camden taught there, elected into Trinity coll. in Cambridge, an. 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow. Thence he went to travel into Italy, and was at Rome, where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence. Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher, and in his return touch’d at Constantinople, where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador, for the former freedom of his tongue. At his return into England, he retired to Oxon, spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library, and, as I have been informed, had his Lodging in Ball. coll. which is partly the reason why I insert him here. He is observed by a Cambridge (a)(a) Tho. Fuller, in his Worthies of England, in Wales p. 16. man to have been no bad English, but an excellent Latine, Poet, and by some thought worthy to be mention’d by Spencer, Sidney and others, the chiefest of our English Poets. His works are these.

A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of the late Soveraign K. James. Lond. 1625. a Poem; and other things which I have not yet seen; but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops, as one (b)(b) I [•] on in London. p. 207. in Marg. or more think. He died within the City of Westminster, (having always been in animo Catholicus) in sixteen hundred thirty and three;1633: whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter, there, near to the door entring into the Monuments, or the door, thro which people enter to see the Monuments, on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year. I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself, wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator, musarum & amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus, &c. and another made by a second person, which for brevity sake I now pass by. In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington (afterwards a Jesuit) in Mich. Term, an. 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll. an. 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house, but whether any of them were authors, I cannot yet tell, or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu.