ROLLESTON, a parish in the northern division of
the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles
(N. N. W.) from Burton upon Trent, containing, with
the township of Anslow, or Annesley, 869 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Stafford,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £13. 19 7., and in the patronage of
Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. The river Dove runs through the parish;
A free school was founded, about 1520, by Robert Sherbourne,
Bishop of Winchester, who endowed it with an
annuity of £ 10, to which subsequent benefactions have
been added, producing together an income of £37 a
year, which is applied to the instruction of forty-five
children. Near the school are ten almshouses, called
the hospital, for aged people of both sexes, endowed in
1672, by Mr. Rolleston; six of the inmates have an
allowance of coal and four shillings a week each, and
the remaining four have three and sixpence each*
Rolleston 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 40s.