34 THE MAN IN THE WALL 



Sacrament his own way without the use of the Book of 

 Common Prayer." Ettrick took up the matter warmly. 

 And amongst the MSS. are letters from him to the Bishops of 

 Exeter and Chichester asking for an introduction to the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, from the Bishops of Bristol, 

 Exeter, and Chichester to the Archbishop, recommending 

 Ettrick to him and from Philip Traheron, one of the 

 Ministers of Wimborne, to the Archbishop, in which he signs 

 himself " Your Grace's most obedient son and most 

 affectionate servant," asking him to help Mr. Anthony 

 Ettrick. He states that " on Trinity Sunday, May 9th, 1681, 

 Hardy had left the Church destitute both of Sermon and 

 Divine Service, though it was also the annual Festival 

 established in commemoration of His Majesty's happy 

 Nativity and Restoration."* Poole being a Peculiar, the 

 Bishop of Bristol, in whose diocese the County of Dorset 

 then was, could do nothing. Hardy had been presented 

 before the Officials of the Peculiar Courts of Poole and of 

 Canford without effect ; hence Ettrick's wish that the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury should intervene. Eventually a 

 presentment was made of Hardy to one of the judges of 

 assize, who was asked to beseech the King " in his princely 

 wisdom to think of some expedient for the redresse thereof." 

 As a result a commission was issued, and Hardy was deprived 

 of his benefice. 



We pass on for three or four years. The battle of Sedge- 

 moor had been fought. A few days afterwards, on the eighth 

 of July, 1685, the Duke of Monmouth was discovered, dressed 

 as a shepherd, with a beard prematurely grey of several days 

 growth, hidden in a ditch. The place where he was captured 

 was beyond the village of Horton, and to this day it is marked 

 by an ash tree which is called Monmouth's Ash.f The nearest 

 magistrate was Anthony Ettrick, who resided at Holt Lodge, 



* Tanner MSS., 129, Nos. 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 73, &c. 

 f Quite recently the Earl of Shaftesbury has had a brass tablet 

 affixed to the tree, bearing an inscription. 



