“Here lies Governor Peate, Whom no man did hate, At the age of four-score, And four years more, He pretended to wrestle With Death, for his castle, But was soon out of breath, And surrender’d to Death, Who away did him take, At the eve of our Wake, One morn about seven, To keep Wake in heaven.” * * * * * “Nov. 29th, 1780.—SARAH BROWNE, of Babe’s Wood, widow, aged 76. “EPITAPH. Here lies Mammy Brown, Who oft sung ding and down Over many a brat; And what of all that? Why she sung herself down, So here lies Mammy Brown. N.B.—She nursed many children besides her own.” There are several useful and important charities pertaining to Whittington parish. Jones’s charity of 1670, and Griffith Hughes’s bequest in 1706, provide for the education of the boys of the parish, as that of Elizabeth Probert does for the girls. These bequests are now applied to the National Schools established in the village. The old National Schools being too small for the increasing population of the parish, a new School House, for the accommodation of Boys and Girls, was erected in the year 1853, on the site of the former Boys’ School, at a cost of £900, after a design by Messrs W. and J. Morris, Builders, &c., of Oswestry, by whom also the structure was erected. The present much-respected Rector is the Rev. William Walsham How, who purchased the living in the life-time, and succeeded to it on the death, of the Rev. C. A. A. Lloyd. The parish of Whittington contains 8,303a. 3r. 10p.; gross rental, £13,145 5s. 0d.; rateable value, £12,867 10s. 0d. It is worthy of record in our notice of Whittington, that the admirable Missionary Hymn, from the pen of the late Bishop Heber, “From Greenland’s icy mountains,” was written especially for a public meeting of the friends of Missions, held in the village about the year 1820, at which the poet Heber attended. The hymn was sung on that occasion for the first time; but since then how many thousand voices, in every part of the habitable globe, have been raised in tuneful melodies whilst pouring forth this immortal strain! Heber’s hymn ranks with the sacred songs of our best poets, and has urged many a Christian heart to the heaven-born work of spreading the gospel throughout the heathen world. Amongst the pleasant retreats in the neighbourhood of Whittington are BELMONT, the residence of J. V. Lovett, Esq., an active and intelligent Magistrate for the county; FERNHILL, about one mile from Whittington, the seat of Thomas Lovett, Esq., also an able county Magistrate; and the DERWEN, the house of John Povey, Esq., a gentleman much respected in the district. WYNNSTAY,