An ACCOUNT of the EXAMINATION OF Capt. Holland, Before a Committee of Lords, Upon the Murder of the EARL of ESSEX.  
AS amongst the many Deeds of Darkness, which Providence in its Good Time will bring to Light, None can be Blacker or more Hideous, than the Murder of this Noble and Innocent Lord; So nothing can be of Greater, and more Universal Satisfaction, (though of no less Horror too,) than the Detection of that Bloody Assassination; in which, upon the Apprehension of Captain Holland, the Zealous and Honourable Inquisitors, into that crying Blood, are now drawing to a Discovery. An Account of whose Examination, take as follows.  
About Three in the Afternoon, on Wednesday, he was carried in a Coach, Attended and Guarded by several of Major Richardson's Men, (himself, and Mr. Clerk, one of the Keepers of Newgate, going in the Coach with him) to Bedford-House in the Strand, where the Committee of Lords than Sat. It was observed, that he was so strangely Melancholy and Dejected, (and indeed has been so all along in his Confinement) that he changed not one Word with his Keepers, in the whole way going or coming. Before his Admission to the Lords, he was carried to the Fountain-Tavern in the Strand, where he drank part of a Pint of Sack; from thence, when called for, he was conducted to Bedford-House, and Twice called in and Examined; where appeared against him, Mr. Bradon, John Salisbury a Soldier, a Maid-Servant of Holms, another Person now in Newgate, likewise, on the Account of the Earl of Essex's Murder. At his Appearance before the Lords, he complained he was indisposed; and being asked by the Earl of Bedford, if he would have a Cordial, he replied, he was only a Cold, and was therefore ordered to have his Cloak put on, and had a Bottle of Sack called for him. His whole Air and Behaviour, is infinitely changed from that Gaiety and Jollity he appeared with, under his former Condemnation in Newgate, for the Robery of Dr. Gattaker, where at the very Minute of receiving his Sentence, he was observed to deport himself with that little Face of Concern, as if Death had been the least part of his Apprehension. And though his Unfortunate Comrade Davis, was hanged for the same Fact; such a shower of Mercy, and Court Bounty poured down upon the Favourite Holland; that besides his Pardon, scarce any Prisoner in many Ages before, at least that had so little Pretensions to Fortune or Estate, to support such Extravagant Expenses, was ever known to spend so high as he: Such a constant Affluence of Guineas daily flowing in from the Lord Sunderland, and openly acknowledged to come from that Honourable Hard, (for what Public or Private Merit, Time will show) That he half fed the Jail; and all Caps and Knees were so much at his Devotion, that nothing so honoured either at the Grate, or the Cellar Bat, as the Noble Captain Holland; and all this from the extraordinary Largesses of a Generous Jayl-Bird-Patron, the then Secretary of State.   

London, Printed for R. Hayburft, 1689.