Holinshed
RAPHAEL RALPH (hol'in-shed), an English chronicler, in the age of Queen Elizabeth. He is best known by his "Chronicles of Englande, Scotlande, and Irelande," the first edition of which, known as the "Shakespeare edition," because it is the one which the dramatist is supposed to have used in collecting material for his historical plays, published in London in 1577. He died about 1580.
HOLKAR (hōl'kar), the name of a powerful Mahratta family, the members of which have at various times been formidable enemies to the British Empire in India. The founder of the family was Mulhar Rao Holkar, born in the Deccan, 1693.
HOLLAND. See NETHERLANDS, THE.