THRUSSINGTON, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 8
miles (N. N. E.) from Leicester, containing 466 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated ia
the king's books at £6, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of - Heycock, Esq. The church is dedicated to the
Holy Trinity. Thomas Hayne, in 1640, bequeathed an
annuity of about £7 for teaching poor children.