John Weever, English antiquary, poet and historian, 1576–1632. In skull cap, ruff collar and doublet, with books and human skull. Engraved by John Byfield from the scarce woodcut by Thomas Cecill in Weever's book Ancient Funerall Monuments. Johannis Weever, aetatis 55 anno 1631. Copperplate engraving from Samuel Woodburn’s Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martin’s Lane, London, 1816.

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