DRAYTON (EAST), a parish in the South-clay division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 4 miles (N.E.) from Tuxford, containing 266 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, rated in the king's books at £9 3. 4., and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There are chapels of ease at Askham and Stokeham, in this parish. Here is a free school endowed with £ 25 per annum.