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as an excellent and highly-esteemed Prelate, and was author 

 of several masterly and classical performances. In 1781, thi 

 learned Prelate was translated to the See of Worcester, to the 

 heartfelt satisfaction of the whole country. He was the 79th 

 Bishop. 



1781. His successor, the present Prelate, is the Hon. Dr. JAMES CORN- 

 WALLIS, who was born in 1743, and received the rudiments of his 

 education at Eton school. He afterwards studied divinity at Christ 

 Church, Oxford, and in August, 1791, was appointed Dean of 

 Windsor, to which is annexed the Deanery of Wolverhampton : in 

 1794 his Lordship resigned them for the Deanery of Durham. In his 

 public functions as a Protestant Bishop, his Lordship has ever been 

 exemplary in the performance of the important duties of that office. 

 He has also contributed much to the improvement of the Cathe- 

 dral, and the Episcopal Palace at Eccleshall. The Bishop is the 

 patron of the following livings in his Diocese, viz. the Rectory 

 of St. Philip's, Birmingham ; the Vicarage of Dunchurch, War- 

 wickshire ; the Vicarage of Duffield, Derbyshire ; the Vicarage of 

 Prees, Salop j the Vicarages of Eccleshall, Hanbury, and Penn ; 

 the perpetual Curacy of Gnosall, Staffordshire j and Patron of 

 Towcester, Buckby, and Pightesley Vicarages, in Northampton- 

 shire j Belgrave, Leicestershire j Burton, Wybunbury, and Cop- 

 penhall, Cheshire ; and Towen, Merionethshire. The Diocese 

 contains 557 parishes, comprising the whole counties of Stafford, 

 (except Broome and Clent,) Derby, the major part of Warwick- 

 shire, and nearly one-half of Shropshire. 



A BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT 



Of the Villages, Sfc. in the Parishes of ST. CHADD and ST. MICHAEL, which 

 are without the boundaries of the City of Lichfield. 



Curborough is a hamlet in the parish of St. Chadd, about a mile 

 north of Lichfield; it was anciently a member of the Bishop's barony 

 of that city, and was afterwards held at the manor of Longdon. 

 The present proprietor is Theophilus Levett, Esq. 



Elmhurst is a hamlet situated two miles north of Lichfield, near 

 the turnpike-road to Uttoxeter, In the time of Edward I. Richard 

 Puer held one-fourth part of a Knight's-fee at Elmhurst, of the 

 Bishop of Lichfield. The subsequent owners of this estate were the 

 Biddulphs; it was sold in 1754 by Sir Theophilus Biddulph, to 

 Samuel Swinfen, Esq. whose nephew afterwards sold it to Francis 



