Thomas Holland

was born at Ludlow in Shropshire, elected Socius Sacerdotalis, commonly called Chaplain Fellow of Balliol coll. 13. Jan. 1573. being then Bach. of Arts, and a most noted disputant in that house, and in 1575. proceeding in that Faculty, he became a solid Preacher. Afterwards he took the degrees in Divinity, left his Fellowship in 1583. succeeded Dr. Humphrey in the Divinity-chair 1589. and Glasier in the Rectory of Exeter coll. an. 1592. In which house continuing almost 20 years, appeared in sight under him at one time these noted Scholars, Edw. Chetwind, Dan. and Samp. Price, Rich. Carpenter, Tho. Winniff, Joh. Flemmyng, Joh. Standard, Joh. Whetcombe, Joh. Prideaux, &c. all Doctors of Divinity. Sim. Baskervill, Rob. Vilvaine, &c. eminent Physicians, with others, to the great credit of our common Mother. This learned Dr. Holland did not, as some, only sip of learning, or at the best drink thereof, but was mersus in Libris; so that the Scholar in him, drown’d almost all other relations. He was esteemed by the precise men of his time, and after, another Apollos, mighty in Scriptures, and so familiar with the Fathers, as if he himself was a Father, and in the Schoolmen, as if he had been a Seraphical Doctor. He hath published,

Oratio cum Henricus Episc. Sarisburiensis gradum Doctoris susceperet habita. Oxon. 1599. qu.

Serm. on Matth. 12. 42. Oxon. 1601. qu. He had also a considerable hand in the translation of the Bible, appointed by K. Jam. 1. an. 1604. and left behind him at his death, several things fit for the Press. He departed this mortal life on the 17. of March in sixteen hundred and eleven,1611-12. and was on the 26. of the said month (an. 1612.) buried in the Chancel of St. Maries Church in Oxon; where being then present all the degrees of the University, Dr. Kilbie Rector of Linc. coll. laid open to them, in a Sermon, the great learning and vertues of him the said Dr. Holland.