To men, fathers and brethren; Henry Holland (son of the learned and laborious scholar…To men, fathers and brethren; Henry Holland (son of the learned and laborious scholler…

HENRY HOLLAND (Son of the learned and laborious Scholar Dr. Philemon Holland;) a Citizen of London: and to do the King and Common-wealth service; He hath heretofore been a Grand-Jury-man and a Subsidy-man, and one of the Trained Band, charged with a Corslet: And lived in good Credit and Reputation: and for a long time, hath been an householder▪ in an eminent Parish, called Mary Le Bow; Charitable and open-handed to the relief of necessitated good Christians: He had also a gracious Wife named Susanna, (now with God) who did go beyond him in Grace and goodness;) and with her Husbands leave was openhanded to the relief of the Poor: which being taken notice of, he and she in the memorable year of the Mortality, of the great Plague Anno 1625. Monies were sent into their hands: some from some known friends; and othersome from unknown friends (that left London,) to contribute to necessitated and visited Christians: Whereof their witness is in Heaven, (and for need yet some few on earth,) that they were faithful Stewards. He hath been also a Commissioner under the great Seal of England against Bankrupts in four or five Lord Keepers times. And he was ever a zealous hater and abhorrer of all Superstition and Popery, and Prelatical Innovations in Church Government and Discipline: for the which he hath, heretofore, by that Grand Impostor William Land Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and his Agents, suffered imprisonment, by Attachments of Pursuivants, in the High-Commission Court and the Star-Chamber Court: and he hath been thereby put to great trouble and charges, and much impoverished. And he is averse to all late sprung up Sectaries: when he was 60 years of age, he adventured his life, and went out one, and was the eldest man of the present Basil Earle of Denbigh his Life-guard, in his expedition for the King and Parliament in the year 1643. whereof he hath good Certificate. And now in these miserable and distracted times, he is grown aged, betwixt 60 and 70, he is subject to some infirmities of age, his Eye-sight and hearing much decayed, (sometimes almost stark deaf) so crazy in his Limbs, as hardly able to follow any calling: and he is not only impotent in body but indigent in estate: (the more with some unhappy averse suits in Law;