Henry Morse, whose life story was vividly told by Philip Caraman in ‘Priest of the Plague’ (1957), was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. 

Although hotheaded and prone to sudden outbursts of anger, Morse became known as someone who selflessly put his life in danger to help his fellow countrymen during the plague of 1633.

Other copies of this engraving are held by the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.