PEAK-FOREST, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 3 miles
(N. W.) from Tideswell, containing 680 inhabitants.
Here is a chapel, dedicated to King Charles the Martyr;
the living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, and in the
patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. A free school is
endowed with about £ 10 per annum, for the education of
ten poor children. This district 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.