CHATSWORTH, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 3 miles
(E. N. E.) from Bakewell. The population is returned
with the parish of Edensor. Chatsworth, as part of the
duchy of Lancaster, is within the jurisdiction of a court
vof pleas held at Chapel en le Frith, for the recovery of
debts under 40*. The splendid mansion of Chatsworth
was begun in 1687, and completed in 1706, by William
Cavendish, first duke of Devonshire, upon the site of a
more ancient edifice, which was taken down about the
close of the seventeenth century, and in which Mary,
Queen of Scots, passed a considerable portion of her
long captivity in England. Sir John Gell garrisoned
it for the parliament, in 1643, but capitulated to the
Earl of Newcastle, who, in December of the same year,
placed Col. Eyre, with a sufficient force, therein, to
hold it for the king. In 1645, it withstood the siege
of four hundred parliamentarians under Col. Gell, who,
at the expiration of fourteen days, raised the siege^
and retired to Derby. After the battle of Blenheim, in
1704, Marshal Tallard, the French general, having been
made prisoner on that occasion, was sent to reside here.