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there is a further tradition that he was a younger son of 

 Lord Ettrick, Earl of Dumbarton ; but that he had 

 expatriated himself owing to his being implicated in family 

 feuds. 



Whatever may be the truth of these traditions, there is 

 no doubt that the Etterickes, or Ettricks, were settled at 

 Barford, in the parish of Wimborne Minster, in the sixteenth 

 century ; and William Ettricke, of Barford, whose will is 

 dated Nov. 28, 1575, was evidently a substantial farmer 

 there. He gave directions that his body was to be buried 

 in the church porch at Wimborne Minster, near to his 

 children. He mentioned his wife Elizabeth, and left bequests 

 of land, horses, and bullocks to his sons William, Giles, John 

 and Anthony. (P.C.C. 11 Carew). 



It was probably this son Anthony who, by will, dated 

 March 1st., 1612, and proved Dec. 29, 1613 (in which he is 

 described as " Anthony Ettrycke of Barford, within the 

 parish of Wimborne Minster, gent."), left to the church of 

 Wimborne 20s., " to the poore people of the parishes of 

 Wimborne and Sturminster Marshall a quarter of corne to 

 be baked in bread and delivered them for their reliefe 

 according to the discretion of my executor." To his wife 

 Maud he left for her life the Mill (house) at Sturminster, 

 to his son Andrew 100 ; to his son William " The coppiholds 

 at Barford ; " and to his two daughters, Penelope and Lewis 

 (Louise), 200 between them " from the letting of the mills 

 at Sturminster." (P.C.C. , 117 Capell). 



William Ettrycke,. mentioned in this will, married Anne, 

 daughter of William Willis of Pamphill. Their eldest son 

 Anthony is the subject of this sketch. 



Anthony Ettrick was born at Barford on Sunday, Nov. 

 15th, 1622, f for which reason " his mother would say he was 

 a Sundaye's bird." 



f Aubrey's Brief Lives, &c., Edited by Andrew Clark, Oxford, 1898, 

 Vol. I., page 250. 



