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SHropshire is commodiously situated, intermixed with Hills, Plains, Woods, Forrests, Chaces, &c. and produ∣ces Corn, Rich Pastures, Cattle, and many other things, to the advantage of the Inhabitants. It is Bounded with Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Mongomeryshire, and Denbyshire: It contains 15 Hundreds, divided into 170 Parishes, and ha••
in it 14 Market Towns, and 18 great and small Rivers, branching mostly from the Severn; which plentifully Waters this Shire and others. It sends Members to Parliament 12, viz. Bishops-Castle 2, Bridgnorth 2, Ludlow 2, Shrewsbury 2, Wenlock 2, and 2 Knights of the Shire.
In Shropshire, besides Shrewsbury, the County Town, a noted Mart for Cloath and Frizes brought from Wales, and thence dispersed into divers parts of England, There are Remarkable Ruins of some Antient Places, which were cer∣tainly Towns or Cities of great splendor; as Workcester Uriconium the antient Usoconia, of which Okenyat is a small remainder; Oswalstree retaines its Name from Oswald the 11th King of Northumberland, who was here Slain in Battel by Penda King of the Mercians; The other Towns of Note are Wellynton, Newport, Brayn∣ton, &c. At Shrewsbury, and other places on the Severn, is taken a Fish called a Mort, in Taste like a Salmon; at Pitchford is a Well whose Water casts up a Scum of Liquid Bitumen, and near Oswaldstree is a Vestigia of a Roman Camp.
The Seats of the Nobility are Pepperhill, belonging to the Earl of Shrewsbury; Highercal and Eyton, to the Lord Viscount Newport; Cherbury, to the Lord Herbert Baron of Cherbury; It has also in it 13 Bridges, 13 Castles, 7 Forrests, and 27 Parks. The Seats of the Gentry are likewise very pleasant, and there is almost every where great store of Game, and abundance of Fish.