GRACE-DIEU, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the
western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of
LEICESTER, Smiles (E. by N.) from Ashby dela Zouch.
The population is returned with the parish of Belton.
A priory for nuns of the order of St. Augustine was
founded in the reign of Henry III., by Roesia de Verdon,
in honour of St. Mary and the Holy Trinity, which
at the dissolution had a revenue valued at £ 101. 8. 2.