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and he was " adjudged not sequestrable."* Eighteen months 

 later, on 21 February, 1649, he was reported to be worth 

 200 a year, and was accused of having published a letter 

 from Sir John Bankes to his tenants, asking them to 

 strengthen Corfe Castle against the Parliament, and of f 

 having ridden at the head of a party of horse to a neighbour's 

 house, of having plundered it, and of having taken him 

 prisoner. Anthony's younger brother, Walter, who had 

 followed him to Trinity College, Oxford, was, with the 

 President of his College and more than 60 fellow members 

 of the University, expelled for his loyalty to the King, by 

 order passed on June 29, 1648, the order with the names 

 being fixed to the doors of the University ChurchJ In early 

 life Anthony seems to have been more occupied with his 

 legal studies than with politics. As years passed on, his 

 " Toryism " became more noticeable. 



During the time that Anthony Ettrick occupied the position 

 of Recorder of Poole, one Samuel Hardy was appointed to be 

 Rector. This was in 1667. Hardy had been sent down 

 from Oxford in consequence of his unwillingness to take the 

 necessary oaths before proceeding to the degree of Master 

 of Arts. He had been Vicar of Charminster before going to 

 Poole. He was a Presbyterian at heart, and it is doubtful 

 whether he had ever been episco pally ordained. Poole was 

 a Peculiar, and so exempt from Episcopal and Archidiaconal 

 Jurisdiction. Amongst the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian 

 Library at Oxford, are a number of letters written in 1681 

 in connection with this case. Hardy is accused of priding 

 himself on his impunity, as the Rector of an Exempt Peculiar 

 " of Christening, Burying, and Administering the 



* Minute Books of Dorset Standing Committee, Mayo, 1902, pages 

 296, 411, 422, 430. 



f Calendar of Proceedings of Committee for Advance of Money, Pt. II., 

 p. 1025. 



J Gutch's Edition of Wood's History and Antiquities of the University 

 of Oxford, 1796, Vol. II., Pt. II, pages 593,595. Walker's Sufferings of 

 the Clergy, Pt. II., p. 134. 



