At DORRINGTON school were educated Dr. Richard Allestree, Provost of Eton, and Richard Baxter the Nonconformist. Dr. John Douglas, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury," the scourge of impostors and terror of quacks,” was one of its masters.

In ELLESMERE Church is the monument of Sir Francis Kynaston, Esquire of the body to Charles 1. and translator of the " Loves of Troilus and Cressida." In FITZ Church-yard is the tomb of Dr. Edward Waring, mathematician, 1798. In HALES OWEN Church-yard are the tombs of Miss Anne Powell (poetical epitaph by Shenstone) 1744; and of William Shenstone the poet, 1763. In the Church is an urn erected to his memory, with a poetical inscription by his friend Graves; and a handsome monument, by Banks, for Major John Delap Halliday, 1794.

At HALSTON there is a good collection of paintings, and a curious portrait of Charles I. carved by N. Bryant, on a peach-stone, set in gold, with a crys tal on each side.

In HAWKSTONE beautiful grounds, is the tent in which Sir Sydney Smith signed the Convention of El Arish; it was taken on the surrender of Cairo, June 25, 1801, and brought over by the Salopian hero, Lord Hill. Among the paintings in the house is the Siege of Namur, in which are introduced the portraits of William III. the Elector of Bavaria, the Duke of Marlborough, Count Cohorn, and Richard Hill, great uncle to the present baronet.

HODNET was the rectory of Lord James Beauclerk, afterwards Bishop of Hereford. In the Church are several monuments of the Hills of Hawkstone, and a handsome one for Henrietta, daughter of Sir Thomas Vernon of Hodnet, the last of that antient family. The hall is the seat of Reginald Heber, Esq. the "Atticus" of Dibdin's " Bibliomania." It contains a noble collection of "Libri rarissimi!!!"

IO KINLET Church are many superb monuments of the Blounts.

The LEASOWES was the seat of the poet Shenstone, who formed its principal beauties, as described by Dodsley in an account prefixed to his edition of Shenstone's Works. In this, his native place, he composed most of his poems; his "School-mistress" being the old woman by whom he was first taught to read. A view of the Cottage-school is engraved in Gent. Mag. for Nov. 1795. In LONGNER Garden was buried Edward Burton, Esq. a zealous protestant, who expired suddenly with joy at hearing of the death of Mary 1, in 1558, and whose body was refused burial by the Roman Catholic curate of St. Chad's. At LUDLOW, Sir Henry Sydney, K. G. Lord President of the Marches, kept his court with peculiar magnificence; and on his death in 1586, his heart was deposited in the tomb of his beloved daughter Ambrosia, who died here in 1574, and was buried in an oratory he had built in the Church. In 1634, during the presidency of the Earl of Bridgewater, the Masque of Comus was written by Milton, at the request of his friend Lawes, who set it to music. It was occasioned by the Earl's two sons, Viscount Brackley and the Hon. Thomas Egerton, with his daughter Lady Alice, afterwards Countess of Carberry, being benighted, on their journey to Ludlow, in Heywood forest in Herefordshire, when the lady for a short time was lost. It was originally acted by the two brothers, the young lady, Lawes and others. At the Restoration, Butler, who was appointed Secretary to the then Lord President, the Earl of Carberry, composed in this castle the three first cantos of his inimitable "Hudibras." In the Church is an elegant marble tomb to the memory of the Lord President Sir John Bridgeman. In this town, in 1758, died John Davis, aged 112. It was for some time the residence of Lucien Bonaparte. Round the castle is a beautiful public walk.

In MADELEY Church-yard, under a slab of cast-iron, was buried its vicar John William de la Flechere, pious enthusiast, 1785.

At NEWPORT, May 16, 1665, 160 houses burnt, loss £30,000.

At OSWESTRY, in 1797, died John Lloyd, attorney, the original institutor of Societies for the Prosecution of Felons, of which that at Oswestry was the first. At PITCHFORD park is a valuable collection of original portraits. PLEALEY near Poatesbury, was the seat of the mathematician Dr. Edward Waring.

Ross HALL was visited by his present Majesty and the Duke of Clarence, in 1906,

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At SHIFFMALL died, in 1776, Mary Yates, aged 128.

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At SHREWSBURY first commenced in this kingdom that terrible disease the Sweating Sickness. April 1, 1774, 50 houses burnt. July 9, 1788, the old Church of St. Chad fell down. In the Abbey church is the monument (removed from old St. Chad's) of Sir Richard Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1565, ancestor of Sir Richard afterwards Lord Onslow, who was Speaker in 1709, and of Arthur Onslow who was Speaker daring the whole reign of George II. In St. Alkmond's Church is a finely-painted window by Egginton, emblematic of Evangelical Faith, and the monuments of Sir Thomas Jones, Lord Chief Justice, 1683; and of Thomas Jones, once sheriff of the county, six times bailiff, and the first mayor of the town. In St. Chad's Chancel window is the "Resurrection" by Egginton, removed hither from the East window of Lichfield Cathedral; and in this Church is a tablet for Job Orton, friend and biographer of Doddridge, 1766. In its old Church were buried Rowland Lee, Bishop of Lichfield, 1543, and Thomas Mytton, Parliamentarian General, 1656. In St. Giles's Church-yard is the tomb-stone of John Whitfield, surgeon, with only the inscription "Composita solvuntur." In St. Julian's Church is a window of painted glass, with a large figure of St. James, brought from Rouen. In St. Mary's Church were buried its ejected minister Francis Tallents, author of Chronological Tables, 1708; and Robert Cadman, with a curious poetical epitaph, recording his death in January 1740, by the breaking of a rope, on which he had attempted to descend from the top of its steeple to a field on the other side of the Severn. Among the eminent men educated at the Free-school, were SIR PHILIP SYDNEY; his friend Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke; Lord Chancellor Jefferies; Lord Chief Justices Jones and Price; Prelates Thomas of Salisbury, and Bowers of Chichester ; Dramatist Wycherley; Poet, Ambrose Philips; Antiquary, Clarke; Classical critic, Dr. John Taylor; and Mathematician, Waring. It contains an excellent library; a small museum of antiquities, principally Roman, found at Wroxeter; and some natural curiosities. Its present master is Dr. S. Butler, editor of Eschylus. Of the two children taken by the eccentric but amiable Thomas Day, author of "Sandford and Merton," from the Foundling Hospital, now House of Industry, in this town, there is a curious and interesting account in Miss Seward's "Life of Darwin." The Quarry-walk by the side of the Severn is one of the finest promenades in the kingdom. The antient Pageant called "Shrewsbury show," is held on the second Monday after Trinity Sunday, but has greatly fallen off in its splendour and attendance. This town has been frequently honoured by Royal visits; in 1490 Henry VII. his Queen Elizabeth of York, and his son Prince Arthur, attended Mass at a solemn festival at St. Chad's. The last Royal visit was by James II. in 1687. His present Majesty passed through the town in his way to

In TONGE Church are many superb monuments, among all, in 1806.

which are those of Sir Fulk Pembridge and his Lady, who founded the Church in 1410; Sir Henry Vernon, Governor and Treasurer to Arthur Prince of Wales; Sir Richard Vernon, Governor of Calais, and the last person who held the high office of Constable of England for life; and a large tomb of Sir Edward Stanley, with an epitaph written by SHAKSPEARE. The great bell given by the Constable Vernon, is six yards in circumference, and weighs 48 cwt.

At WEM, March 3, 1677, the Church, market-house, and 140 dwellinghouses destroyed by fire. Here died in 1784, Mary Jones, aged 110.

WENLOCK was represented in Parliament by the poet Isaac Hawkins Browne.

In WHITCHURCH Church are monuments of JonN TALBOT first Earl of Shrewsbury of his family, the valiant Lord Marshall of France, slain at Chastillion with his heroic son Viscount Lisle, in 1458; and of its rector Christopher Talbot, fourth son of John the second Earl. Here also were buried its rector Dr. John Rawlinson, Principal of Edmund Hall, Oxford, and author of *Sermons," 1631; and Nicholas Bernard, Dean of Ardagh 1661. Church fell down in 1710.

At WOMBRIDGE, died in 1807, Mary Heyward, aged 112.

In WROXETER Church are handsome altar-tombs of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chief Justice, 1555; Sir Richard Newport, 1570; Francis first Lord Bradford, 1708; his brother Andrew, 1699; and Thomas Earl of Torrington, BYRO.

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