EDITH-WESTON, a parish in the hundred of MARTINSLEY, county of RUTLAND, 5 miles (B. S. E.) from Oakham, containing 301 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £1,4. 7. 6., and in the patronage of B. Lucas, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Here was formerly an alien priory of Benedictine monks, a cell to the abbey of St. George, at Banguervill, in Normandy, to which it was given by William de Tankerville, chamberlain to Henry I.; at the suppression, in the reign of Richard II., it was conveyed to the Carthusians of Coventry, and as part-of their possessions was granted, in the 4th 6 Edward VI., to the Marquis of Northampton.