THE CHURCH, dedicated to St. Mary, is built of red sandstone, and has a square tower, with the date of 1600. The nave and chancel were enlarged and beautified in 1755. There are several beautiful monuments in the church, one of which remembers the Rev. John Bridgeman, D.D., bishop of Chester, who died in 1719. In the tower are three fine-toned bells, which were re-cast at Kinnerley. It is related that a farmer returning from Shrewsbury fair, where he had sold two cows named Dobbin and Golden, passing the furnace, was asked what he would give towards the new bells, when he jocularly replied that he would give Dobbin and Golden, at the same time emptying a large handkerchief of silver coin into the furnace. From this circumstance the bells have ever since been called Dobbin and Golden. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King’s book at £7. 6s. 8d.; now returned at £114; in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. Edmund Wolryche Orlando Bridgeman. The vicarial tithes of this township are commuted for £18. 12s. 2d.; and £103. 4s. 6d. are paid to Mrs. Tayleur, and £2. 16s. 6d. to other impropriators. There are 30A. 1R. of glebe land. The tithes formerly belonged to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, in whom the patronage of the living was also vested. CHARITIES.—_John Payne_ left £6, _Edward Payne_ a yearly sum of 4s., and _Richard Payne_ the sum of 10s. yearly, for the benefit of the poor. These sums are secured upon a piece of land in Lwynygo. _Nicholas Thornes_ bequeathed £10, _Roger Thornes_ a like sum, and _Thomas Thornes_ £5, which gifts are secured upon land in Edgerley township, called Brokist. _Mr. Kynaston_ gave the interest of £10 to the poor; _Elizabeth Morgan_ bequeathed £50. _Henry Morgan_ a rent charge of 10s. per annum. The three last bequests are secured on land in Melverley. A yearly sum of £2 is paid to the churchwardens from land which was formerly the property of the Hanmer family. There are two pieces of land in Edgerley, the rent of which, £2. 17s. 6d. per annum, is received by the churchwardens, but from whom it was derived is not known. The amount of these rents, with the produce of the several charities above mentioned, being £11. 7s. 6d. per annum, are distributed in small sums on Good Friday. _Roger Gethin_ left £40, which was laid out in the purchase of two small crofts in Tyr-y-coed, for the benefit of the poor. The land produces £3. 10s. yearly. _John Hickin_ left a rent charge of 10s. yearly, and the poor have a like sum yearly from the bequest of _Margaret Dyos_—noticed with Great Ness. _Hester Farmer_, in 1691, gave the rent of a close every fourth year, to be distributed among the poor of Kinnerley. The field is now let for £23 per annum:—See the charities of St. Chad, Shrewsbury. POST OFFICE—_At Mr. Jonathan Rodgers_. Letters arrive from Oswestry at 11.30, and are despatched at 2 40 P.M.