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Churchwardens of Wimborne Minster, of the second part, on 

 April 16th, 1703, from which we can learn a little more about 

 this gift : John Fitch of Henbury was in possession of a 

 certain fee farm rent of 12 16s., " payable out of and for 

 the Rectory and Church of Poole." A portion of this, 

 amounting to the annual rent of 3, he sold to Anthony 

 Ettrick for 60, by indenture dated May 31st, 1693. A 

 yearly rent of twenty shillings Anthony Ettrick gave by the 

 above mentioned indenture to the Churchwardens and their 

 successors for ever in consideration of the sum of 5s. paid to 

 him by them, and because he had " obtained a grant to him 

 and to his heirs of and from the Officiall of the peculiar juris- 

 diction of Wimborne Minster of a certaine quantity or plott 

 of ground lying in the church of Wimborne Minster aforesaid 

 for a buriall place for himselfe and his family." The remaining 

 2 of the annual rent of 3 which he purchased from Mr. 

 Fitch, Ettrick devised to the fellows of Trinity College, 

 Oxford (where he had himself been a student about 60 years 

 before) " to be spent on wines and tobacco on the fifth of 

 November, yearly." The remaining 9 16s. was apparently 

 sold by Fitch to William Stone who had been one of the three 

 " Presbyters," or Ministers of Wimborne Minster, and the 

 founder of the (chained) library there. It was by him added 

 to the income of St. Margaret's Hospital at Wimborne. 



Anthony Ettrick died in the beginning of July, 1703. The 

 following is a copy of the entry in the Burial Register at 

 the Minster : 



" 1703, July, Anthony Ettricke Esquire, Buried ye 5." 

 His tomb is to be found in a recess in the south wall of 

 the Trinity Chapel. This chapel, before the great " restora- 

 tion," one is almost tempted to say " devastation," of 1855-7 

 was, so to speak, the " Westminster Abbey " of Wimborne, 

 where were laid the bodies of the more important inhabitants ; 

 and the walls, &c., were covered with their memorials. There 

 were the Hanhams of Deanscourt, the Fitches of High Hall, 

 the Constantines of Merly, the Warhams of Leigh, the Russells, 

 the Waytes, the Lanes, the Beethells, the Ettricks, &c. 



