EASTON, a parish in the hundred of KINWARDSTONE,
county of WILTS, 3 miles (E. by N.) from
Pewsey, containing 447 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, and in the patronage of the Marquis
of Ailesbury. The church, which was dedicated
to the Holy Trinity, has been demolished. Here is a
small endowed free school. In the reign of Henry III.
there was an hospital or priory at this place, for canons
of the Trinitarian order, for the redemption of captives,
said by some to have been founded by Stephen, Archdeacon
of Salisbury: its revenue, at the time of the
dissolution, amounted to £55. 14. 4.