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Atkinson, and Mr. Brook to take active measures for their 
preservation. A York Association for the Preservation of 
Footpaths was formed, Etty wrote to all the local papers, his 
friend, Sidney Taylor, brought the matter forward in the 
London Herald, the ladies of York took up the matter, and a 
subscription of £3,000 was raised, including a handsome sum 
from another Yorkshireman, Sir Francis Chantrey. Valuable 
help was also given by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 
then in its infancy, which had done itself and Etty the honour 
of electing him Honorary Member. With the sum thus 
provided the Micklegate Walls were restored, and a small 
portion of the Walmgate Walls, the Corporation voting a 
grant of £100. But they were only checked. Not content 
with having in 1820 mutilated the Barbicans of Micklegate, 
Monk, and Walmgate Bars, they had altogether removed the 
Micklegate Barbican in 1826, in spite of protests from Flax, 
man, Stothard, and Sir Walter Scott, and in 1831 passed a 
resolution to take down Bootham Bar. Etty once more came 
to the rescue, promised a subscription, which he could ill 
afford ; £300 was raised, and the Bar was saved, but the 
Barbican was destroyed. One side of the Bar dating from 
the time of Charles IF was pulled down and put up like the 
other ! 
Another controversy about the walls occurred in 1839, on 
the occasion of the introduction of the Railway. The Bill 
had been passed unknown to Etty, and his distress at the sight 
of the breach was very great. Through his efforts the 
Corporation was induced to devote £500 of the compensation 
received from the Railway Company towards the restoration of 
the Walmgate Walls, and eventually, with the help of subs¬ 
criptions, of the Walmgate Barbican. Another matter in 
which Etty played an important part was the restoration of 
the Minster after the fire of 1829. A very large subscription 
was raised, £60,000, more than enough to re-place what had 
been destroyed, and the Dean and Chapter proposed to set 
back the Organ Screen in order to uncover the bases of the 
pillars supporting the Central Tower ; it would have been 
necessary to reduce the Screen both in length'and height, and 
moreover it was afterwards admitted, that once taken down, 
