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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 d . ANDREW ETTY, B.D. 1 

 23 Years Vicar of this parish : 



In whose character 

 The conjugal, the parental, and the sacredotal 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. 



1 Mr. Etty was a great friend of Gilbert White's, and many entries in the 

 11 Garden Kalendar " and other references in his letters testify to the author's esteem 

 for the good Vicar. See Letter to Mrs. Barker (Oct. 19, 1784) in Bell's edition, 

 vol. ii. p. 152), where Gilbert writes : " I miss poor Mr. Etty very much ; he 

 was a blameless man without guile." [R. B. S.] 



