CLIVE, a chapelry in that part of the parish of ST-MARY
which is within the liberties of the town of
SHREWSBURY, county of SALOP, 3 miles (S.) from
Wem, containing 306 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, within the jurisdiction of the court of
the royal peculiar of St. Mary, in Shrewsbury, endowed
with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Mayor and Head-master of the free grammar
school of Shrewsbury. The chapel is dedicated to All
Saints. William Wycherley, the poet and comic writer,
was born here, in 1640.