HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)

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HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450) , Scottish writer, author of the Buke of the Howlal, was secretary or chaplain to the

earl

EARL

of Moray (1450) and

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

of Halkirk, near Thurso. He was afterwards

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

of Abbreochy, Loch Ness, and later held a chantry in the cathedral of Norway. He was an ardent partisan of the Douglases, and on their over-throw retired to Orkney and later to

Shetland

SHETLAND, or ZETLAND

. He was employed by Edward IV. in his attempt to rouse the Western Isles through Douglas agency, and in 1482 was excluded from the general pardon granted by James III. to those who would renounce their fealty to the Douglases.
The poem, entitled the Buke of the Howlat, written about 1450, shows his devotion to the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Douglas:
" On ilk beugh till embrace
Writtin in a bill was
0 Dowglass, 0 Dowglass
Tender and trewe!"
(ii. 400-403).
and is dedicated to the wife of a Douglas
" Thus for ane Dow of Dunbar drew I this Dyte,
Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith war thei dowis."
but all theories of its being a political allegory in favour of that

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

may be discarded. Sir Walter Scott's judgment that the Buke is " a poetical

apologue

APOLOGUE (from the Gr. &rroXoyos, a statement or account)

. . . without any view whatever to local or natural politics " is certainly the most reasonable. The poem, which extends to fool lines written in the irregular alliterative rhymed stanza, is a bird-allegory, of the type familiar in the Parlemsnt of Foules. It has the incidental

interest

INTEREST

of showing (especially in stanzas 62 and 63) the antipathy of the " Inglis-speaking Scot " to the " Scots-speaking Gael " of the west, as is also shown in Dunbar's Flyting with Kennedy.
The text of the poem is preserved in the Asloan and Bannatyne MSS. Fragments of an early 16th century black-

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

edition, discovered by D. Laing, are reproduced in the Adversaria of the Bannatyne Club. The poem has been frequently reprinted, by Pinkerton, in his Scottish Poems (1792); by D. Laing (Bannatyne Club 1823; reprinted in " New Club "

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, Paisley, 1882); by the Hunterian Club in their edition of the Bannatyne MS., and by A. Diebler (Chemnitz, 1893). The latest edition is that by F. J. Amours in Scottish Alliterative Poems (Scottish Text Society, 1897), pp. 47-81. (See also Introduction pp. xx.-xxxiv.)

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