“Oswestry is the liberal, the best endowed of cities; The beloved of heaven that draws me to it. _Oswestry_ the strong fort of conquerors; the _London_ of Powys; Where the houses are well stored with wine, and the land is rich. Its school is celebrated, and its city for preachers and men of science. GOD is present in its beautiful temple— A church adorned with rich chalices, And with bells and a rich-toned organ. No better choir is there from it to Canterbury: None in which there is correcter singing, Or the habilments more suitable. To _White Minster_ I know no convent superior. The handsomest and best-dressed women are those of Oswestry. It resembles Cheapside in merchandize, And its people are honest and unanimous. GOD’S grace be with the city, and those that dwell therein; May GOD be its guardian and kind preserver.” HUMPHREY HUMPHREYS, D.D., an eminent prelate, born November 24th, 1648, was for some years placed at the Free School of Oswestry, under the care of his uncle, Humphrey Wynn, A.M., who was master of the school and vicar of the parish. Bishop Humphreys was an able Welsh antiquary, and wrote some memoirs of eminent Welshmen, in addition to those contained in Wood’s _Athenæ Oxonienses_, printed in the last edition of that work, and in the first volume of the _Cambrian Register_. “He was a person of excellent virtues during the whole course of his life, and in his latter years of a piety so extraordinary, as has but few examples.”