SILEBY, a parish in the eastern division of the
hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 1 mile
(E.) from Mountsorrel, containing 1328 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the Icing's
books at £8. 15. 5., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of George Pochin, Esq. The church, dedicated to
St. Mary, has a highly enriched tower. There are
places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists.
The manufacture of hosiery is carried on to.
a considerable extent. The Rev. William Staveley, in
1702, founded a small free school, with an endowment
of £5 per annum, to which George Pochin, in 1706, bequeathed
£50. The parish, which is bounded on the
west by the river Soar, 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.