296 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



Prope hunc parietem sepelit 

 GILBERTUS WHITE, SAMSONIS 



slitur 



FIB WHITE, de 



Oxon. militis filius tertius, Collegii Magdale- 



-nensis ibidem alumnus, & socious. Tandem faven- 



-te collegio ad hanc ecclesiam promotus ; ubi primse- 



-va morum simplicitate. et diffusa erga omnes bene- 



volentia feliciter consenuit. 

 Pastor fidelis, comis, affabilis, 

 Maritus, et paier amantissimus, 

 A conjuge invicem, et liberis, atque 

 A parochianis impense dilectus. 

 Pauperibus ita beneficus 

 ut decimam partem census 



moribundus 

 piis usibus consecravit. 

 Meritis demum juxta et annis plenus 

 ex hac vita migravit Feb. 13. 

 anno salutis 172$ 

 yEtatis suae 77. 

 Hoc posuit Rebecca 

 Conjux illius msestissima, 

 mox secutura. 



On the same wall is newly fixed a small square table monument 

 of white marble, inscribed in the following manner : 



Sacred to the memory 



of the Rev*. ANDREW ETTY, B.D. 



23 Years Vicar of this parish : 



In whose character 

 The conjugal, the parental, and the sacerdotal virtues 



were so happily combined 



as to deserve the imitation of mankind. 



And if in any particular he followed more invariably 



the steps of his blessed Master, 



It was in his humility. 



His parishioners, 



especially the sick and necessitous, 

 as long as any traces of his memory shall remain, 



must lament his death. 



To perpetuate such an example, this stone is erected ; 

 as while living he was a preacher of righteousness, 



so, by it, he being dead yet speaketh. 

 He died April 8 th , 1784, aged 66 years. 



