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Holland vacant by his death before 13 Feb. 1603–4. A son, Henry, entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1613 (, Merchant Taylors' School Reg. i. 76).

Holland was the author of the following works: 1. ‘A Treatise against Witchcraft; or A Dialogue, wherein the greatest doubts concerning that sinne are briefly answered Herevnto is also added a Short Discourse, containing the most certen meanes ordained of God, to discouer, expell, and to confound all the sathanicall inuentions of Witchcraft and Sorcerie,’ Cambridge, 1590, 4to; dedicated to Robert Devereux, earl of Essex. 2. ‘Spirituall Preseruatiues against the Pestilence: chiefly collected out of the 91 Psalme,’ London, 1593, 16mo; 1603, 4to; dedicated to the lord mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen, and Thomas Aldersey, citizen, of London. To the second edition is added ‘An Admonition concerning the use of Physick,’ which was reprinted with ‘Salomon's Pesthouse’ (1630), by I. D. 3. ‘Aphorisms of Christian Religion: or a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Caluin's Institutions, set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: And now Englished according to the Authors third and last edition,’ London, 1596, 8vo, with dedication to Dr. Goodman, dean of Westminster. 4. ‘Christian exercise of Fasting, Private and Publick: whereunto is added certain Meditations on the 1st and 2d chapters of the Book of Job,’ London, 1596, 4to.

Holland edited (London, by Felix Kyngston, 1603, 4to) ‘Lectures upon the Epistles of Paul to the Colossians,’ by Robert Rollok of Edinburgh, and the works of [q. v.] (1599; 5th ed. 1612).

 HOLLAND, HENRY (d. 1625), Roman catholic divine, a native of Daventry, Northamptonshire, was brought up at Worcester, and afterwards sent to Eton College, whence he proceeded to St. John's College, Oxford, of which he was nominated a scholar by the founder, Sir Thomas White, in 1565. He was admitted B.A. on 1 Dec. 1569 (Oxf. Univ. Reg., Oxf. Hist. Soc., i. 275). Having been converted to Roman catholicism, he withdrew to the English College at Douay in 1573. He applied himself to the study of theology, was ordained deacon on 6 April 1577, and graduated B.D. in the university of Douay in 1578. In the latter year the college was removed to Rheims, where Holland was engaged, with Gregory Martin and other scholars, in translating the Bible into English. He accompanied Dr. William Allen to Paris in April 1579, returned to the college in the following month, and on 19 March 1579–80 was ordained priest. In 1582 he was sent to the English mission, where he laboured for several years. On returning to Douay he resumed his studies, and was created by the university a licentiate of theology on 22 Sept. 1587 (Douay Diaries, p. 274). When Pits wrote his work, ‘De Angliæ Scriptoribus,’ he described Holland as being then (in 1611) very old, having for some years been divinity reader in the monastery at Marchiennes in Hainault. It would appear that he was afterwards appointed to a similar office in the monastery of Anchine (Aquicinctum), near Douay, where he remained till his death on 28 Sept. 1625. He was buried in the cloister of the monastery, and a monument was erected to his memory with a quaint Latin epitaph, which has been printed by Wood (Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. ii. 307).

He wrote: 1. ‘Urna Aurea, vel in Sacrosanctam Missam, maximeque in divinum Canonem Henrici Hollandi Expositio,’ Douay (Laurence Kellam), 1612, 12mo. 2. ‘Vita Thomæ Stapletoni,’ in ‘Opera quæ extant omnia Stapletonii,’ 4 vols., Paris, 1620, fol., a work probably edited by Holland. 3. ‘Carmina diversa,’ and also, says Wood, ‘other things printed beyond the sea which seldom or never come into these parts.’ A translation of a Latin letter by Holland, describing the perils to which priests were exposed in England, is printed in the appendix to part i. of Challoner's ‘Missionary Priests.’

 HOLLAND, HENRY (1583–1650?), compiler and publisher, son of [q. v.], was born at Coventry on 29 Sept. 1583. Although he proved in later life a good classical scholar, and was clearly well educated, he cannot be the Henry Holland of Lancashire who matriculated from Brasenose College, Oxford, 24 Oct. 1600, aged 16, and graduated B.A. 20 July 1604. He came to London as a youth, and usually designated himself ‘Londonopolitanus.’ He was made free of the Stationers' Company 5 Dec. 1608 (, Transcript, iii. 683). The first book published by him was Thomas Draxe's ‘Sicke Man's Catechisme,’ London, 1609, 8vo, which was licensed to Holland and John Wright jointly on 4 Feb. 1608–9. In 1610 he published from a previously unprinted manuscript ‘A Royal Elegie’ on Edward VI, by Sir John Cheke; the book is