The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Barton Holyday

by Gerard Langbaine

Barton Holyday.

He was born in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in All-Saints Parish in Oxon; his Cousin, Dr. Ravis, early entred, and chose him Student of Christ-church; after his Degrees of Batchelor and Master of Arts, was made Archdeacon of Oxonshire, died 1661. at Eifly, near Oxon, and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxon. He writ One Play, under the Title of

Τεχνογαμια, or, The Marriage of the Arts, a Comedy, 4 to. 1630. Acted by the Students of Christ-Church, aforesaid, at Shrovetide. This Play was then in good Esteem. He hath written divers Pieces, as his Translation of the Satyrs of Juvenal and Perseus, with Notes and Sculptures, Fol. A Version of the Odes of Horrace; divers Sermons, 4to. and Two Tracts in Latin.