William Butler, English academic and physician, 1535-1618. Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, famous eccentric and drunkard. Guillielmus Butler, Cantabric Huius Aetatis Princeps Medicorum. Original plate with eight English verses. Copperplate engraving after Simon van de Pass 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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