BREASON, a chapelry in the parish of SAWLEY,
hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of
DERBY, 7 miles (B. S. B.) from Derby,, containing 579
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual' curacy, annexed
to that of Risley, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
Prebendary of Sawley in the Cathedral. Church of
Lichfield, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£600 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant.
The chapel is dedicated'to St. Michael.