STOKESAY, a parish in the hundred of MUNSLOW,
county of SALOP, 7 miles (N.W.) from Ludlow, containing
564 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of
Hereford, rated in the king's books at £4. 13. 4., and
in the patronage of William Smith, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. A small endowment
in land, the gift of Roger Powell, in 1716, is applied in
support of the poor, and for teaching children: there
is also a bequest of £5 per annum, by Mary Pierce,
in 1761, for purchasing hooks.