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raphael holinshed

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Hol⋅ins⋅hed

[hol-inz-hed, hol-in-shed]
–noun
Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
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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.
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