COSBY, a parish in the hundred of GUTHLAXTON, county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (S. S. W.) from Leicester, containing, with Little Thorpe, 883 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £4.15., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Thomas Pares, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.