H0240000 (hŏl′ən-shĕd′, -ĭnz-hĕd′) or Hol·lings·head(-ĭngz-hĕd′), Raphael Died c. 1580. 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.