EATON, a parish in the South-clay division of the
wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
2 miles (S.) from East Retford, containing 215 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of Southwell, rated in the king's books at
£4. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Prebendary of
Eaton in the Collegiate Church of Southwell. The
church is dedicated to All Saints. This parish 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.