Samuel Walsall, D.D. (1575-1626) was a priest and academic in the late sixteenth and the early seventeenth centuries. Butts was born in Eastling. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1593; M.A. in 1596; and B.D. in 1604. He was appointed Fellow in 1596; and Master in 1618. He held livings at Alkham, Appledore, St Mary Abchurch in the city of London and Little Wilbraham. He died on 31 July 1626.