EYFORD, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the upper
division of the hundred of SLAUGHTER, county of GLOUCESTER,
2 miles (w. by S.) from Stow on -the Wpld,
containing 67 inhabitants. The Duke of Shrewsbury
had a mansion here, in which he received a visit from
William III.; and in a summer-house, now destroyed,
Milton is said to have written a great part of his "Paradise
Lost."