PEAKIRK, a parish in the liberty of PETERBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (S. E.) from
Market-Deeping, containing 180 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Glinton, in the
archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £18. 3. 11., and
in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough.
The church is dedicated to St. Pega, who, in
714, settled here in a cell which Edmund Atheling afterwards
converted into a monastery, which, though twice
destroyed by the Danes, existed till 1048. A charity
school for five poor girls of Peakirk, and ten of Glinton,
is supported with the interest of a sum of money bequeathed
by Ann Ireland in 1712.