The following pages were written, at the request of the Incumbent of Battlefield, with the object of giving to the numerous visitors to Battlefield Church some historical and descriptive notices of that venerable fabric, together with a brief account of the Battle of Shrewsbury, and of the foundation of the College. They are reprinted, with a few corrections and additions, from Eddowes’s Shrewsbury Journal, in which they first appeared.

The writer has consulted Owen and Blakeway, Dugdale, Dukes, Brookes, and other well-known authorities; but ventures to think that some hitherto unknown facts, which have been brought to light through researches at the Public Record Office and Public Libraries, will be found here given for the first time. He has in view a History, on a larger scale, of this most interesting College and Church, and will be grateful for any additional documents or items of information relating thereto.

February, 1889.