DEAN (EAST), a parish in the hundred of WILLINGDON, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 2 miles (W.S.W.) from East Bourne, containing 296 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage united to the vicarage of Friston, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Ghichester.