Holinshed

(hälinz hed′, -in s̸hed′)

Holinshed, Raphael died 1580?; Eng. chronicler

See Holinshed in American Heritage Dictionary 4

English historian. His volume Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577) was used extensively by Shakespeare as well as other Elizabethan dramatists as a source of historical information.
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