BRAILS, a parish in the Brails division of the
hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 4 miles
(E. by S.) from Shipston upon Stour, containing 1233
inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's
books at £25, and in the patronage of J. Bailey, Esq,
The church is dedicated to St. George. Here is a
manufactory for livery shag, plush, &c. A free school
was endowed, in the 23rd of Elizabeth, with an annuity
of £8. 1. 8., which was augmented by Barnabas Bishopp
and others, in the 18th of James I.; the annual income
is £64. 8. 2., for which the school is unlinutedly
free for poor children: the school-room was rebuilt
in 1819.