racter of Ulysses as delineated by Homer,’ in which the mental excellence and moral virtue of Ulysses are commended. In the volumes of ‘Poems chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall,’ which were edited by the Rev. Richard Polwhele in 1792, there appeared (i. 78–103) numerous poems by Hole, including two of his odes. His contributions, numbered 2, 11, 18, and 26, in the ‘Essays by a Society of Gentlemen at Exeter,’ 1796, included ironical vindications of the characters of Iago and Shylock. A review in the ‘European Magazine,’ for 1796, p. 190, which was erroneously attributed to Polwhele, led to many angry communications, some of which are in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,’ 1796, pt. ii. pp. 738–9, 896, 1017, and to a savage letter from Hole to the supposed critic (Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections, i. 238–9, 271, ii. 362–3, 444–5, 475–83). Hole assisted Badcock in his contributions to the ‘Monthly Review,’ and was induced by him to render occasional aid to the ‘London Magazine,’ the chief of his articles consisting of ‘dialogues between ideal personages.’ He wrote also for the ‘British Magazine’ and the ‘Gentleman's Magazine.’ The common-place book which he left at his death showed abstruse reading, and among its contents was part of a translation into the Exmoor dialect of the first eclogue of Virgil. There was inserted in ‘Blackwood's Magazine,’ iv. 530–41, part of ‘The Exmoor Courtship … with Notes Critical, Historical, Philosophical, and Classical; to which is added a Paraphrase in modern English Verse.’ In a subsequent volume (ib. v. 65–71) it was intimated that the paraphrase was by Hole, and some account of him, extracted from an unpublished memoir by Bartholomew Parr, was then given. This memoir was ‘A slight Sketch of the Life of the late Rev. Richard Hole, LL.B., read to the Society at the Hotel on their Anniversary, August 4, 1803. Printed at their expense,’ Exeter, 1803.
[Gent. Mag. 1803 pt. i. 599–600, 1816 pt. i. 228–9; Censura Literaria, vi. 215–16; Foster's Oxford Reg.; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. viii. 92–4.]
HOLE or HOLLE, WILLIAM (fl. 1600–1630), engraver, one of the earliest English engravers, is notable as the earliest engraver of music on copperplates in this country. He engraved and published ‘Parthenia, or the Maydenhead of the first Musicke that ever was executed for the Virginalls composed by those famous Masters, William Byrd, Dr. John Bull, and Orlando Gibbons, Gentlemen of his Maties most illustrious Chappell.’ This book, engraved for Dorothy Evans, and printed in London by G. Lowe, appears to have been published in 1611, with a title-page, and a fresh edition in 1613 with the title-page slightly altered. A much later edition has a new title-page by Hollar. Hole also engraved in 1613, with a dedication to Robert Carr, earl of Somerset, ‘Prime Musiche nuove di Angelo Notari a una, due, et tre Voci, per Cantare con la Tiorba et altri Strumenti, Nouamente posti in luce.’ A volume entitled ‘Fantasies of Three Parts, by Orlando Gibbons. Cut in copper, the like not before extant,’ was probably also engraved by Hole at an earlier date. These books are excessively rare; copies of them all are in the library at the British Museum. Hole also engraved throughout Martin Billingsley's ‘The Pen's Excellencie,’ with a portrait of the author. Among the portraits engraved by Hole were Henry, prince of Wales, with a lance (copied from Simon Passe's print) in Drayton's ‘Poly-Olbion;’ the same prince's effigy on his funeral car for George Chapman's ‘Epicede;’ George Chapman, prefixed to his ‘Iliad,’ 1616; Thomas Coryat [q. v.], and another plate for his ‘Crudities,’ 1611; Michael Drayton, for his ‘Poems,’ 1619; George Wither, for his ‘Poems,’ 1617; John Florio, for his Italian and English dictionary, 1611; Sir John Hayward, Thomas Egerton, viscount Brackley, John Clavell (a penitent thief), and others. He also engraved title-pages, and some of the maps for Camden's ‘Britannia,’ 1607. On 29 May 1618 he received a grant for life of the office of head-sculptor of the iron for money in the Tower and elsewhere (Cal. State Papers, Dom. James I. vol. xcvii.)
[Dodd's manuscript Hist. of English Engravers, Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 33402; information from Mr. W. Barclay Squire, F.S.A.]
HOLFORD, Miss MARGARET. [See Hodson, Mrs. Margaret.]
HOLGATE or HOLDEGATE, ROBERT (1481?–1555), archbishop of York, youngest son of Thomas Holgate and Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Champernowne, came of a Yorkshire family entitled to armorial bearings, and was born probably at Hemsworth, near Pontefract, in or about 1481, being, according to his own statement, sixty-eight years old in 1549. He was a canon of the order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, and was probably educated in the house belonging to his order in Cambridge, though it has been supposed from insufficient evidence that he was a member of St. John's College (Cole MS. xlix. 249). He was a preacher of the university in 1524, and became master of the order of
