Hol·in·shed (hŏl'ən-shěd', -ĭnz-hěd') 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.
Hol·lings·head (hŏl'ĭngz-hěd') See Raphael Holinshed.