STOWE, a parish in the southern division of the
hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 7 miles
(N. EbyE.) from Stafford, containing 1185 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and & 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of. Earl Ferrers. The church is dedicated to
St. John the Baptist. Fourteen children are educated
for about £ 15 a year, arising from land given by an individual
whose name is unknown.