DEAN (EAST), a parish in the hundred of WESTBOURN-and-SINGLETON, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 7 miles (S. byE.) from Midhurst, containing 397 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage with the rectory of Singleton, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £5. 4. 4.