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HOLLAND, See also:RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)  , Scottish writer, author of the Buke of the Howlal, was secretary or See also:chaplain to the See also:earl of See also:Moray (1450) and See also:rector of Halkirk, near See also:Thurso . He was afterwards rector of Abbreochy, See also:Loch Ness, and later held a See also:chantry in the See also:cathedral of See also:Norway . He was an ardent See also:partisan of the Douglases, and on their over-throw retired to See also:Orkney and later to See also:Shetland . He was employed by See also:Edward IV. in his See also:attempt to rouse the Western Isles through See also:Douglas agency, and in 1482 was excluded from the See also:general See also:pardon granted by See also:James III. to those who would renounce their fealty to the Douglases . The poem, entitled the Buke of the Howlat, written about 1450, shows his devotion to the See also:house of Douglas: " On ilk beugh till embrace Writtin in a See also:bill was 0 Dowglass, 0 Dowglass See also:Tender and trewe!" (ii . 400-403) . and is dedicated to the wife of a Douglas " Thus for ane See also:Dow of See also:Dunbar See also:drew I this Dyte, Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith See also:war thei dowis." but all theories of its being a See also:political See also:allegory in favour of that house may be discarded . See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott's See also:judgment that the Buke is " a poetical See also:apologue . . . without any view whatever to See also:local or natural politics " is certainly the most reasonable . The poem, which extends to See also:fool lines written in the irregular alliterative rhymed See also:stanza, is a See also:bird-allegory, of the type See also:familiar in the Parlemsnt of Foules . It has the incidental See also:interest of showing (especially in stanzas 62 and 63) the antipathy of the " See also:Inglis-speaking See also:Scot " to the " Scots-speaking Gael " of the See also:west, as is also shown in Dunbar's Flyting with See also:Kennedy . The See also:text of the poem is preserved in the Asloan and See also:Bannatyne See also:MSS .

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early 16th See also:century See also:black-See also:letter edition, discovered by D . See also:Laing, are reproduced in the Adversaria of the Bannatyne See also:Club . The poem has been frequently reprinted, by See also:Pinkerton, in his Scottish Poems (1792); by D . Laing (Bannatyne Club 1823; reprinted in " New Club " See also:series, See also:Paisley, 1882); by the Hunterian Club in their edition of the Bannatyne MS., and by A . Diebler (See also:Chemnitz, 1893) . The latest edition is that by F . J . Amours in Scottish Alliterative Poems (Scottish Text Society, 1897), pp . 47-81 .

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