an English Church of England priest, known for his writing on witchcraft. He was instituted to the vicarage of Orwell, Cambridgeshire, on 21 November 1580. Holland was the author of A Treatise against Witchcraft (1590). It was directed from a Calvinist point of view against folk magic and the sceptical arguments of Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot; it also introduced arguments from the writings of Jean Bodin, Lambert Daneau and Niels Hemmingsen.
