EDWARD, a very polite and elegant scholar, was born about 1688, and educated at Winchester school. He was thence elected demy of Magdalen college, Oxford, in July 1705; took the degree of M. A. in April 1711; became a college-tutor, and had many pupils. In 1715, when he was to be chosen into a fellowship, he resigned his demyship and left the college, because unwilling to swear allegiance to the new government. The remainder of his life was spent in travelling with young noblemen and gentlemen as tutor; in 1741 and 1744 he was at Rome in this capacity. He died of a fever at Lord Digby's house at Colehill in Warwickshire, December 30, 1747. He was the author of the "Mucipula," a poem, esteemed a master-piece in its kind, and of which there is a good English translation by Dr John Headley, in vol. v. of Doddley's Miscellanies. He was the author also of a dissertation, entitled "Pharalia and Philippi; or the two Philippi in Virgil's Georgics attempted to be explained and reconciled to History, 1741," 4to: and of "Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil; with some other classical Observations, published with several notes and additional remarks by Mr Spence, 1768," 4to. Mr Spence speaks of him in Polymetis, as one who understood Virgil in a more masterly manner than any person he ever knew.

HOLORACEÆ, (from holus, "pot-herbs"); the name of the 12th order in Linnaeus's fragments of a natural method, consisting of plants which are used for the table, and enter into the economy of domestic affairs. See BOTANY Index.