300 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE 



Sacred to the memory 

 of the Rev d . ANDREW ETTY, B.D. 



23 Years Vicar of this parish : 



In whose character 

 The conjugal, the parental, and the sacerdotal virtues 



were so happily combined 



as to deserve the imitation of mankind. 



And if in any particular he followed more invariably 



the steps of his blessed Master, 



It was in his humility. 



His parishioners, 



especially the sick and necessitous, 

 as long as any traces of his memory shall remain, 



must lament his death. 



To perpetuate such an example, this stone is erected ; 



as while living he was a preacher of righteousness, 



so, by it, he being dead yet speaketh. 



He died April 8 th , 1784, aged 66 years. 



LETTER IV. 



WE have now taken leave of the inside of the church, and shall 

 pass by a door at the west end of the middle aisle into the belfry. 

 This room is part of a handsome square embattled tower of forty- 

 five feet in height, and of much more modern date than the 

 church; but old enough to have needed a thorough repair in 

 1781, when it was neatly stuccoed at a considerable expense, by 

 a set of workmen who were employed on it for the greatest part 

 of the summer. The old bells, three in number, loud and out of 

 tune, were taken down in 1735, and cast into four; to which Sir 

 Simon Stuart, the grandfather of the present baronet, added a 

 fifth at his own expense ; and, bestowing it in the name of his 

 favourite daughter, Mrs. Mary Stuart, caused it to be cast with 

 the following motto round it : 



<' Clara puella dedit, dixitque mihi esto Maiia : 

 Illius et laudes nomen ad astra sono." 



