ASHBY (PARVA), a parish in the hundred of GUTHLAXTON,
county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from
Lutterworth, containing 176 inhabitants. The living, is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated' in the king's books at £5. 7- 6., and
in the patronage of the Crown. The church* is dedicated
to St. Peter. Ashby Parva is in the honour of
Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction
of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday,
for the recovery of debts under 40s.