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HOLINSHED (or HOLLINGSIIEAD), RAPHAEL (d. c. 158o) , English chronicler, belonged probably to a Cheshire family, and according to Anthony Wood
Holinshed who matriculated from Christ's College, Cambridge , in 1544. About 156o he came to London and was employed as a translator by Reginald or Rtyner Wolfe, to whom he says he was " singularly beholden." Wolfe was already engaged in the preparation of a universal history, and Holinshed worked for some years on this undertaking; but after Wolfe's death in 1573 the scope of the work
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A second edition of the Chronicles, enlarged and improved but without illustrations, which appeared in 1587, contained statements which were offensive to Queen Elizabeth and her advisers, and immediately after publication some of the pages were excised by order of the privy council. These excisions were published separately in 1723.. An edition of the Chronicles, in accordance with the original
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