EASEBOURNE, a parish (formerly a market-town) in the hundred of EASEBOURNE, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 1 mile (N.E.) from Midhurst, containing, with the chapelry of Lodsworth Liberty, 1290 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £6. 6. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £1900 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Lord Montague. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. In this parish, to the south of which the Rother, or Arundel navigation, passes, is a school founded in 1674 by John Locke, and endowed by him with £5 per annum. In the latter part of the reign of Henry III., John Bohun, of Midhurst, founded here a small Benedictine nunnery, the revenue of which at the dissolution was valued at £29 per annum.