Joseph Robson Tanner

“ The 'Second Discourse' deals with the same subjects as the 'First,' but the treatment is much fuller, and the abuses exposed are for the most part different. There is also a remarkable improvement in the writer's literary style. ”

“ Hist. MSS. Comm. 12th Rep. i. 370) . Hollond succeeded Kenrick Edisbury as paymaster of the navy before 1635 (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1635, p. 2) . In October 1636 the Earl of Northumberland, admiral of the shipmoney fleet, accused Hollond in a statement of abuses in the navy (Hollond, Discourses, appendix) of benefiting by corrupt commissions. Hollond pleaded prescription 'of thirty years past' (ib. pp. 394, 398) . ”