DALBY (MAGNA), a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 3
miles (S. by W.) from Meltqn-Mowbray, containing 402
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £8. 4. 7., and endowed with £200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir Francis
Burdett, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Swithin.