ASHBY (MAGNA), a parish in the hundred of
GUTHLAXTON, county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (N, by B.)
from Lutterworth, containing 280 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£7. 8. ll., and in the patronage of the Earl of Ayles-,
ford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.