CHEBSEY, a parish in the southern division of the
hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 2 miles' (B.
by S.) from Eccleshall, containing, with the township of
Cold Norton, 421 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 7- 6.,
and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield.
The church is dedicated to all Saints: the cemetery
formerly contained a tall pyramidal stone, supposed
to be the memorial of a bishop who was reputed
to have been anciently slain near this place. Chebsey 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.