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 of goods. In this town there are four churches—St. Mary's and St. Peter's, formerly collegiate, is a spacious cruciform structure, with a hand- some tower rising from the centre. The font in this church is of great antiquity, and is most elaborately carved with figures, basses, flowers, and foliage. In the chancel are many curious and ancient monuments. In the church-yard is a column, twenty feet high, (supposed to be of Danish origin,) on which is a profusion of rude sculpture. The living of St. Mary and St. Peter is a perpetual curacy (not in charge), in the archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry; P.R. £130; patron, the dean of Windsor. St. John's is a handsome edifice, in the Grecian style of architecture, with the absurd addition of a tower and lofty spire; the interior is pleasingly arranged, and the altar is ornamented by a painting of the Descent from the Cross, by, a native of the town. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the same diocese, &c. &c. as St. Mary's and St. Peter's (not in charge); P.R. £69; patron, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. St. George's is a handsome structure, completed in 1827, under the Acts of Parliament for building new churches: St. Paul's is a perpetual curacy, and was erected at the expense of the present incumbent, who, with Mr. Dalton, is joint patron of the living. Here are also places of worship for a variety of denominations of Dissenters, for the Society of Friends, and for Roman Catholics.

Here is a free Grammar School, founded and