DRAYTON, a parish in the hundred of BLOXHAM,
county of OXFORD, 2 miles (N.W. by W.) from Banbury,
containing 185 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the
king's books at £12. 16. 0., and in the patronage of
the Earls of Guildford, Plymouth, and Delawarr, as coheirs
of the late Duchess of Dorset. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter.