Sepulchre, and on his
return touched at Constantinople, where he received a reprimand from the
English ambassador for the former freedom of his tongue. At his return
to England, he retired to Oxford, and, according to Wood, spent some
years there for the sake of the public library. He died in July, 1633,
and was buried in Westminster Abbey, "in the south crosse aisle, neere
the dore of St. Benet's Chapell," but no inscription now remains to
record the event.

Whalley, in Gifford's _Jonson_ (1. cccxiv.), says, speaking of Hugh
Holland--

"He wrote several things, amongst which is the life of Camden;
but none of them, I believe, have been ever published."

Holland published two works, the titles of which are as follows, and
perhaps others which I am not aware of:--

1. "Monumenta Sepulchralia Sancti Pauli. Lond. 1613. 4to."

2. "A Cypres Garland for the Sacred Forehead of our late Soveraigne King
James. Lond. 1625. 4to."

The first is a catalogue of the monuments, inscriptions, and epitaphs in
the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, which Nicolson calls "a mean and dull
performance." It was, at any rate, very popular, being printed again in
the years 1616, 1618, and 1633.

The second is a poetical tract of twelve leaves, of the greatest
possible rarity.

Holland also printed commendatory verses before a curious musical work,
entitled _Parthenia, or the Maydenhead of the First Musick for the
Virginalls_, 1611; and a copy of Latin verses before Dr. Alexander's
_Roxana_, 1632.

In one of the Lansdowne MSS. are preserved the following verses written
upon the death of Prince Henry, by "Hugh Hollande, fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge:"--

"Loe, where he shineth yonder
A fixed Star in heaven,
Whose motion here came under
None of the planets seven.
If that the Moone should tender
The Sun her love, and marry,
They both could not engender
So sweet a star as HARRY."

Our author was evidently a man of some poetical fancy, and if not worthy
to be classed "among the chief of English poets," he is at least
entitled to a niche in the temple of fame.

My object in calling attention to this long forgotten author is, to gain
some information respecting his manuscript works. According to Wood,
they consist of--1. Verses in Description of the chief Cities of Europe;
2. Chronicle of Queen Elizabeth's reign; 3. Life of William Camden.

Can any of your readers say in whose possession, {266} or in what