CODSALL, a parish in the southern division of the
hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, 5 miles
(N.W.) from Wolverhampton, containing 659 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction
of the royal peculiar court of Tettenhall, endowed with
£600 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£1500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage, of
Sir J. Wrottesley, Bart. The church is dedicated, to St.
Nicholas. A school was founded in. 1716, by Dorothy
Derby, with an endowment increased, by a. subsequent
bequest from Margaret Somerford, in 1730, to £3. 3. per
annum, for teaching children of this parish.