To Men, Fathers and Brethren;  
HENRY HOLLAND (Son of the learned and laborious scholar Dr. Philemon Hollard;) a Citizen of London: and to do the King and commonwealth 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 openhanded 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 husband's 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. moneys 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 Bankerupts 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 Archbishop 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 Earl of Denbigh his lifeguard, 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 eyesight 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; wanting necessary subsistence, even now when he is by the course of Nature not far from the period of his Pilgrimage here on earth. And so poor he is, that of late, in a just suit commenced in Chancery, he was fain to make Oath to be addmitted in Forma Pauperis. And seeing the Holy Ghost by Solomon saith, that they that give unto the poor do lend unto the Lord, &c. And, it is a more blessed thing to give than to receive; Your Charitable benevolent contribution, as God shall move your heart, towards his necessitated condition (now in his old age) is most humbly eraved, whose bowels will have cause to bless you, by him that daily imploreth at the Throne of Grace for Peace; such an honourable and safe one as may accord with the peace of the gospel, or the gospel of Peace; as also for the welfare of the high and honourable Court of Parliament, the Reverend Assembly of Divines, and the prosperity of all the Israel of God, in England Ireland and Scotland, and all the World. Ita est Hen. Holland.  
we having known Mr. Henry Holland a long time, do attest that we do conceive and believe the premises are true. 

WILLIAM GOUGE.  
THOMAS FOXLEY.  
RICHARD HILLER.  
HENRY HICKFORD.