FAREWELL, a parish in the southern division of
the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 2 miles
(N. W.) from Lichfield, containing, with Charley, 202
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield,
endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Marquis of Anglesey. The church is
dedicated to St. Bartholomew. Roger, Bishop of Chester,
or Lichfield, founded, about 1140, a religious house, to
the honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for canons regular,
who afterwards gave place to Benedictine nuns;
it was suppressed by Wolsey.