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.)"