TAMWORT.B; UNION ~ND ·PARISH. 62~ purchased with £200. left in 1774, by Elizabeth Beardsley, one half to the curate and the other to the poor; £10. from £200, left in 1795 by John Taylor, for the same uses ; and two sums of !Os. each, out of two farms, left by unknown donors, for the poor. Fazeley township has, for the poor, !Ws. a-year, left by John Walton in 1727, out of land at Kingsbury; and £2 arising from land in Fazeley, left in 1729, by Samuel Twigg. The late Joseph Knight left the interest of £100 for the poor of Tamworth. TAMWORTH UNION comprises the 2J parishes and townships of Amington-and-Stonedelph, Austrey, Bolehall-and-Glascote, Chilcote, Clif­ ton-Campville, Croxall, Canwell, Drayton·Bassett, Edingale, Fazeley, Har­ laston, Hints, Kingsbury, Middleton, Newton Regis, Statfold, Sierscoter Shuttington: Seckington, Tamworth, Tamworth-Castle, Thorpe-Constantine~ Wigginton, and Wilnecote. These 2J townships, &c., comprise an area of 29 square miles, a\}d had 12,430 inhabitants in 1831, and 12,904 in 1841.­ of whom 5924 were in Staffordshire, 6638 in Warwickshire, and 342 in Derbyshire. Their total avet·age annual expenditure on the poor during the three years preceding the formation of the Union was £6449, but ia. 1838 it was only £3997, and in 1840 £4414., In 1850 the total expendi­ ture was £6545, including county rates, registration fees, salaries, &c~ The Union Workhouse, pleasantly situated at Ladybridge-bank, comprises­ two adjacent buildings in the same enclosure, one of which was built in. 1837-8, and the other is the old Parish Workhouse, which was built by Thomas, Lo1·d Viscount Weymouth, and Francis, Lord Middleton, who­ generously gave it to be used for the poor of the town in 1750. This is. larger and handsomer than the new part, and has the appearance of a comfortable and well-built hospital. The two buildings have room for· -about 120 paupers. Mr. John Shaw is Union Clerk and Superintendent Registrar; the Rev. Edw. Harston, M.A., is the chaplain; and James and Mrs. Mead are master and matron of the Workhouse. Mr. John Wright is. the relieving officer. The latter is registrar of births and deaths for Tarn­ worth district, and Henry Godderidge for Fazeley district. Mr. John Brown is registrar of marriages for the whole Union. FAZELEY is a considerable village at the junction of the Fazeley and Coventry Canals, in the pleasant vale of the Tame, It mile S. of Tam­ wortb. The Coleshill road is here crossed by the Roman Watling street,. which, at the east end of the village, crosses the river Tame, and enters Warwickshire. The township of Fazeley includes the neighbouring hamlets­ and liberties of BONEHILL, BANGLEY, BITTEBSCOTE, and DVNSTALL, and also the north end of the Park of Drayton Manor, (see page 579,) the seat of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., who is lord of this manor, and principal owner 1>f the soil, and whose grandfather established here two extensive cotton mills on the river Tame, (as noticed at page 616.) Here are MONTHLY l'AIBS for sheep and cattle, held on the second :Mondays in January, Feb­ )'Uary, April, October, and December; the last Mondays in May and June;; ihe third Mondays in July, August, Sept., and November, and March 21st. The wake is on the first Sunclay after Old Michaelmas day. Faz:eley town­ ship comprises 1827 acres, and 1690 souls, and forms, with the exception JJf Dunstall and Bitterscote liberties, a chapelry district. The CHURCH is a neat building, which was erected and endowed in 1810, by the first Sir­ :Robert Peel, Bart., whose grandson, the present baronet, is patron of the pe?-petttal curacy, now valued at £235, in the incumbency of the Rev. Cyprian Thompson, who has a good Parsonage House. The church has ,no burial ground, but a subscription is being raised for the purchase of one, and the erection upon it of a church large enough for the greatly ~creased population ol lPI;l district. lq the village is a Methodist chapeL .