APPLEBY, a parish partly in the hundred of REPTON
and GRESLEY, county of DERBY, but chiefly in
the hundred of SPARKENHOE, county of LEICESTER,
5 miles (S.W. by S,) from Ashby de la Zouch. con-
taining 1781 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Leicester, rated in the
king's books at £20. 9. 4., and in the patronage of
Thomas Wilks, Esq. The church, which is in Leicestershire,
is dedicated to St. Michael. This parish 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 40*.