Nothing is now needed to make the ecclesiastical arrangements of the parish of Oswestry complete but the building of a chapel-of-ease at Maesbury, and the annexing a district to Morton Chapel; the latter of which objects will no doubt be effected whenever a new Incumbent shall be appointed to it. Oswestry is a discharged Vicarage, in the gift of the Earl of Powis. The present Incumbent is the Rev. Thomas Salwey, B.D. LIST OF VICARS. David Owain instituted 1534 Rector of Whittington 1532, and Prebendary of Myfod 1534 Peter Brereton 1537 John Price, L.L.B. 1552 He became Prebendary of Myfod 1558, and Chancellor 1559. William Owen 1583 William Horton 1587 Thomas Somerfield 1588 John Bagshaw 1591 Rector of Whittington 1588. William Morgan 1599 Vicar of Pool 1575. Richard Pagot 1602 Nathaniel Tattersall (deprived) 1603 Richard Muckleston 1612 John Kyffin, B.D. 1625 Humphrey Wynne 1639 Rowland Nevet, A.M. — Ejected by the Act of Uniformity. Richard Edwards 1664 Richard Jones 1680 Samuel Wilson, A.M. 1690 Archibald Guild 1694 Thomas Jones 1697 Thomas Owen 1707 Edward Parry 1713 Thomas Trevor, A.M., Bodynfol 1736 Turner Edwards, L.L.B., Talgarth 1784 Vicar of Llansilin. Daniel Griffiths 1803 J. W. Bourke, A.M. 1807 Vicar of St. Martins 1803. Thomas Salwey, B.D. December, 1823