DISEWORTH, a parish in the western division of
the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 6 niiles
(N. W. by W.) from Loughborough, containing 718 inhar
bitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Leicester, and dio.cese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £4, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Master and Wardens of the Haberdashers
Company. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Discr
worth 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. William Lilly, the celebrated astrologer, was
born hgre in 1602.