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Holinshed, Raphael d.c.1580
English chronicler

Born apparently of a Cheshire family, he went to London early in Elizabeth I's reign, and became a translator in a printing office. He compiled The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (2 vols, 1577), which together with its predecessor, Edward Hall's Chronicle, was the source for many of Shakespeare's plays.