EASTON (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of
DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 2 miles (N.W.)from Great
Dunmow, containing 303 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £ 10. Lord
Viscount Maynard was patron in 1815. Charles Lord
Maynard, in 1761, endowed a school for six boys of
this parish, and six of Great Easton, and by his will
founded an almshouse for four poor widows.