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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 91. 



Further elucidating tlie ancient bistoiy of 

 Scandinavia are the following wf)iks: — 



Fagskrinna. Kortfallel Norsk Konge-Saga fra 

 slutiiingen af det 12''' eller legijndelsen af det 13* 

 aarhundrede. Udgivet af P. A. Munch, Professor 

 i Historie, og C. R. Unger, Stipendiat i Nordisk 

 Sprogvidenskah : Christiania, 1847. In Icelandic, 

 with Norwegian introduction and notes. C. M. 

 Falsen, Geograjisk Beskrivelse oi^er Kongeriget 

 Norge og Udsigt over dels celdre Historie, som 

 Indledning til Norges udforlige Historie, 1821 ; 

 and Noi'ges Historie under Kong Harold Haarfager 

 og lians mandlige Descendenter, 1824, by the same 

 author. 



The various works and sources of information 

 above mentioned will be found to lead on to 

 many others, so that it will not be difficult for 

 those who wish it, and can afford the time, to enter 

 fully into the highly interesting and curious history 

 of the North — a subject which once entered upon 

 is not easy to quit. The literature of Scandinavia 

 is considerable : although that of Denmark and of 

 Norway is less known, distinctively, in this coun- 

 try, than the Swedish portion ; partly, no doubt, 

 because the semi-barbarous Gothic character is 

 still much used instead of the clearer Roman type. 

 English literature is much liked in Norway, and 

 they have translations of Scott, Bulwer, Laing, 

 Washington Irving, and some others. 



I am very anxious to obtain information on the 

 unanswered points referred to at page 370. 



William E. C. Nourse. 



Postscriptum. — In enumerating recent works 

 on Iceland and the North, I omitted to mention 

 Dillon's Winter in Iceland and Lapland, 2 volumes, 

 London, 1840: an excellent work not sufficiently 

 known. 



The trading vessels to Iceland are exceedingly 

 rough anil dirty. The Dart, Madeira packet, a 

 fine brig of 350 tons, will probably go thither this 

 summer with passengers. W. E. C. N. 



HUGH HOLLAND AND HIS WORKS. 



(Vol. iii., p. 427.) 



Mr. Bolton Cornet having favoured your 

 readers with " a notice of some of the statements" 

 contained in my article above-named, I deem it a 

 duty incumbent upon myself to make a fevf re- 

 marks upon these " notices," which I shall do iu 

 the briefest manner possible. 



The object of my paper was to call attention to 

 a forgotten poet, and to endeavour to obtain some 

 information regarding the locality of his manu- 

 scripts. Had I been writing the life of Hugh 

 Holland, I should, of course, have investigated the 

 dates of his biography and works more fully than 

 it was necessary to do for a trifling article like 



that in question. But, as it is, the facts and dates 

 which I have given are all derived from creditable 

 and well-known sources ; and all the facts and 

 dates in question are the facts and dates of older 

 writers than myself, as will appear by the fol- 

 lowing. 



1. "He was born at Denbigh in 1558." He 

 was born at Denbigh, but not in 1558. In 1625 

 he thus expressed himself: 



" Why was the fatall spinster so vnthrifty? 

 To draw my third four yeaies to tell and fifty !" 



A?isiver. Where are these lines taken from, and 

 what do they mean? What is the proof that they 

 relate to Hugh Holland f " Hugh Holland, an 

 esquire's son of Denbighshire," was matriculated 

 at Baliol College, Oxford, anno 1582, aged twenty- 

 four. My authority is Wood's Athena, edit. Bliss, 

 vol. ii. p. 560. 



2. He did not quit Westminster school till 1589. 

 If ever he pursued his studies at Baliol College, it 

 was some ten years afterwards. 



Answer. Who says he did not quit Westminster 

 school till 1589? — Joseph AYelch, or Mr. Bolton 

 Cornet ? Allowing it to be the former, are all 

 Welch's dates correct? I have Wood's authority 

 that Hugh Holland matriculated at Baliol in 1582. 



3. "About 1590 he succeeded to a fellowship at 

 Trinity College, Cambridge." In 1589 he was 

 elected from Westminster to a scholarship in 

 Trinity College, Cambridge — not to n fellowship. 

 At a later period of life he may have succeeded to 

 a fellowship. 



Answer. My words are, " abotd 1590 he suc- 

 ceeded to a fellowship." Mr. Cornet adds, " In 

 1589" he was elected to a scholarship. I must 

 again refer to honest old Wood, who expressly says 

 that he was a. fellow of Trinity College. 



4. " Holland published two works : 1. Monumenta 

 Sepidchralia Sancti Pauli, Lond. 1613, 4to. 2. A 

 Cypress Garland, &c., Lond. 1625, 4to." Hugh 

 Holland was not the compiler of the first-named 

 work : the initials H. H. admit of another inter- 

 pretation. 



Answer. Why does not Mr. Cornet give your 

 readers his interpretation of the mysterious 

 " H. H. ? " One Henry Holland was the author of 

 A Booke of Kings, being the true Effigies of our 

 English Kings, &.C. : Lond. 1618, 4to. Is this the 

 interpretation? If so, I ask for the proof. 



5. The dates assigned to the Monumenta Sancti 

 Pauli &XQ "1613, 1616, 1618, and 1633." Here 

 are three errors in as many lines. The _/?/•«< edition 

 is dated in 1614. The edition of 1633, which is 

 entitled Ecclesia Sancti Paidi illustrata^ is the 

 second. No other editions exist. 



Ansiver. The edition of 1614 was certainly the 

 first, and that of 1633 certainly the second. In the 

 preface to the latter the author says, "My first 

 collection of these Monumentall Epitaphs I pub- 



