of the king. In 1649 there appeared in London ‘An Answer without a Question; or the late Schismatical Petition for a Diabolical Toleration; written by that reverend divine, Dr. Holdsworth, a little before his death;’ this, however, is not mentioned by Pearson, is not worthy of Holdsworth's learning, and must be rejected as spurious. In 1651 was published (London) ‘The Valley of Vision; in twenty-one Sermons, by Dr. Richard Holsworth.’ This included ‘The People's Happinesse’; Pearson says that the other sermons were printed from shorthand notes, which were so badly taken that the book contains nothing of Holdsworth's genius and spirit. In 1661 Holdsworth's nephew, Richard Pearson, published his ‘Prælectiones Theologicæ habitæ in Collegio Greshamensi,’ two courses of Latin lectures, dealing with such questions as the training of the clergy, the relations of the Old and New Testament, and points of church order arising out of the controversies of the time. Among the manuscripts in Emmanuel College Library is a little book, ‘Directions for Students in the University,’ which shows his practical care for education.
Holdsworth left behind him a large and valuable library, the possession of which was for some time a subject of dispute between the university and Emmanuel College. Ultimately the university paid the college 220l. and acquired it. The rough catalogue, which occupied three masters of arts for three months, is in the Cambridge Library MSS., Dd. viii. 45, and accounts for 10,095 volumes, of which 186 were in manuscript.
[The chief authority is a short Latin life by his nephew, Richard Pearson, prefixed to the Prælectiones Theologicæ. Besides this, Baker's Hist. of St. John's College, ed. Mayor, pp. 213–15, 623–7; Lloyd's Memoirs of Excellent Persons, pp. 457–61; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, ii. 79, 80; Querela Cantabr. p. 7; Ward's Lives of the Professors of Gresham Coll. pp. 56–65; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, vol. iii.; Fuller's Worthies, p. 305; D'Oyly's Life of Sancroft, i. 29–32; Proceedings in Kent, 1640 (Camd. Soc.), pp. 52–3.]
HOLE, HENRY FULKE PLANTAGENET WOOLICOMBE (d. 1820), wood-engraver, was son of an officer in the Lancashire militia, who belonged to an old Devonshire family. He resided in Liverpool, and was one of the pupils of Thomas Bewick [q. v.] He cut some of the water-birds in ‘The British Birds.’ A book-plate cut by him is dated 1798. He cut eight designs by Thurston for McCreery's poem ‘The Press,’ published at Liverpool in 1803; others for Mrs. Hemans's ‘Poems,’ 1808; some of the designs by Thurston for Ackermann's ‘Religious Emblems,’ 1809; ‘Six Views in the Neighbourhood of Liverpool’ in Gregson's ‘Portfolio,’ 1817, &c. He was a member of the Liverpool Academy, and in 1814 contributed to their exhibition ‘An Attempt to restore the Old Method of Cross-lining on Wood,’ by himself. Hole subsequently inherited from an uncle the estate of Ebberley Hall, Devonshire, and retired from the profession. He died in 1820.
[Dobson's Bewick and his Pupils; Linton's Masters of Wood-engraving; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists.]
HOLE, MATTHEW (d. 1730), divine, was entered as servitor at Exeter College, Oxford, on 18 March 1657–8, and took the degrees of B.A. on 15 Oct. 1661, M.A. 14 June 1664, B.D. 13 Oct. 1674, and D.D. 1 June 1716. He was elected to a Devonshire fellowship on 30 June 1663, and became full fellow on 2 July 1664. Having taken deacon's orders in the English church, he was holding a lectureship at St. Martin's Carfax, Oxford, in December 1668. In June 1669 he was ordained priest at Christ Church Cathedral, and was vicar of Bishops Lavington, Wiltshire (1673–4). Henry Godolphin [q. v.], then fellow of Eton, was his friend, and through this influence Hole was appointed in January 1687–8 to the vicarage of Stogursey, Somersetshire, in the gift of Eton College, and held it until his death. By this appointment he vacated his fellowship at Exeter College in February 1688–9, but on 8 March 1715–16, when the friends of two opposing candidates for the rectorship of that college were unable to seat the man whom they wished, Hole was elected to the post, and in 1718 was readmitted to a fellowship. On 1 March 1687–1688 he was inducted in the second prebendal stall of Wedmore in Wells Cathedral, and from 1708 to 1711 he enjoyed the rectorship of Fiddington, Somersetshire. He died in his lodgings at Exeter College, Oxford, on 19 July 1730, and was buried in the college chapel on 21 July, an inscription to his memory being placed on a stone in the chancel (Wood, Colleges and Halls, Gutch, p. 120). Hole was unmarried, and left his money to two nieces who lived with him in his declining days. He gave the sum of 100l. for the completion of the church of St. Peter-le-Bailey, Oxford, and he left 100l. for building new lodgings for the rector of his college, and 200l. to two charity schools in the city. Among the papers at Exeter College is a small quarto volume, in the handwriting of Bishop Conybeare, containing copies of all the documents relating to the dispute between the rector
