MAINSTONE, a parish partly'in the hundred
of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, and partly in the
hundred of MONTGOMERY, and county of MONTGOMERY, containing 451
inhabitants, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Bishop's Castle.
The'living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop,
and diocese of Hereford, rated in the Icing's books at
s£4. 13. 4, and in the patronage of the Earl of Powis.
The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.