;2t Dorset Etorti)t), 

 Htillum *tonc, Bopaiist ani Otbinc* 



(1615*1685,) 



By the Rev. Canon J. M. J. FLETCHER, M.A. and R.D. 



(Read 8th Dec., 1914.) 



N the "Bidding Prayer " which is said in Wimborne 

 Minster at its annual Commemoration of 

 " Founders, Benefactors and Worthies," for 

 whose memory, benefits and good example 

 humble thanks are given, mention is made of 

 " William Stone (1685), a Minister of this 

 Church, and Principal of New Inn Hall, 

 Oxford, who endowed the Almshouse of St. 

 Margaret's and founded the Library of this Church." 



From the inscription on his tomb in St. Michael's Church, 

 Oxford, we learn that he was a native of Wimborne ; and, 

 as he was in his seventieth year at the time of his death, 



