And now, traveller, our tale is told, and in sending you onward on your way, we would heartily bid you “good speed,” with a sincere hope that when in after years, amid the storms and sunshine which checquer the great journey of life, thy restless memory in the stillness of reflection shall recur to the few incidents which, like oases in the desert, have ministered to thy happiness, recollection may long and fondly dwell on those pleasing hours you spent amid the antient walls of Shrewsbury. EMINENT NATIVES OF SHREWSBURY; WITH REFERENCES TO WORKS IN WHICH THEIR BIOGRAPHIES ARE DETAILED. “There is a history in all men’s lives.” SHAKSPEARE. Name. Distinction. Born. Died. References. Adams, Wm. divine, 1706 1789 Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 218. Gent. Mag. March, 1789. Armstead, T. author, 1662 Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. iii. 661. Arnway, John, divine and 1601 1653 Wood’s Athenæ author, Oxon. iii. 307. Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy. Benbow, John, admiral, 1650 1702 Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 390. Biographia Britannica. Blakeway, J.