William Tyndale
The Venerable Translator of the Bible into English who was burned at Vilvoorde in the year 1536, for dissenting from religion as by law established.

Engraved by Wm. Dennis [Juni?] from a very old painting in the possession of George Offor, Esq. Grove Street Hackney

On one side of the portrait is represented the Pope & Satan striving to extinguish the light (an allusion to their fruitless endeavors to suppress the Scriptures).

With these quaint rhymes:

Out! out! thou hated light.
Shine not on our dark night.
Of mysteries and charms.
Our craft will soon be naught.
If man thy light is taught.
All Hell is in alarms.

On the other side. The burning some New Testaments while many are represented flying about, alludes to the Bishop of London's having burnt the sacred volumes which he had bought at so high a price as to enable the learned translator to print a revised and numerous edition.

As expressed in the Scroll thus:

The devilish imps did strive to have
For the Holy Book, a burning grave.
But all their trouble was in vain,
God multiplied it quick again.
The Pope & Devil are skared & wondred,
Their Gold burns one but makes a hundred.

The words under the portrait are from Tyndall's own Exposition of the Parable of the Wicked Mammon, published 1528 in which he predicted his painful death.

In burning the New Testament they did none other thing than that I looked for;
No more shall they do if they burn me also; if it be God's will, it shall so be.
