NERQUIS (NERCWYS), a chapelry, in the parish and hundred of MOLD, union of HOLYWELL, county of FLINT, NORTH WALES, 21- miles (S.) from Mold; containing 482 inhabitants. It comprises about 1881 acres, and is situated in a well-cultivated country, the population being almost exclusively agricultural: there is an old mansion, erected in 1638, by a branch of the Wynne family. Some plantations have been made within the last thirty years, by W. M. Thackeray, Esq., M.D. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £600 royal bounty; present net income, £92; patron, Vicar of Mold: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £258. 14. 7., of which £215. 4. 81. is the amount payable to Robert Knight, Esq., the impropriator, and .£43. 9. 10i. that to the perpetual curate. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is a neat edifice with a handsome steeple, and contains a richly decorated niche in the interior, in which was anciently a figure of the Virgin. Divers benefactions, amounting in the whole to £11. 12. 6. per annum, have been made for the instruction of children, principally arising from a sum of £9. 10., a portion of a larger grant for the purpose by Griffith Roberts, of Holt, in 1664, who also gave £3 per annum to the curate for six lectures: the schoolhouse was erected by Mrs. Hyde, of Nerquis Hall, who left £100, the interest to be applied to keep it in repair; and Mrs. Giffard has built a house as a residence for the master. About £4 per annum, derived from several donations, secured on the Shrewsbury and Wrexham turnpike-trust, are distributed among the poor on Good Friday and St. Thomas's-day.