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



(Read 1th December, 1915.) 



MONGST the many objects of interest which 

 attract more than ten thousand visitors during 

 the course of the year to the justly famed 

 Minster at Wimborne, there is one which is 

 probably sought for more frequently than 

 any other, unless it be the Chained Library 

 and that is the sarcophagus of Anthony 

 Ettrick, often spoken of as " The Man in the 

 Wall." He is generally regarded as having been a mere 

 eccentric. I think that I shall be able to show that he was 

 both an eminent barrister and a distinguished antiquary. 



There is a tradition in the family, possibly an authentic 

 one, that one Anthony Etterick, of Barford, who was born 

 about 1504, was Captain of Horse at the siege of Boulogne, 

 when that place surrendered to Henry VIII. in 1544.* And 



* Burke's Commoners, Vol. III., pages 15-19. 



