FRIESTON, a parish in the wapentake of SKIRBECK, parts of HOLLAND, county of LINCOLN, 3 miles (E.) from Boston, containing 862 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage united to the vicarage of Butterwick in 1751, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £16. 11. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £300 parliamentary grant. G. Scholey, Esq. was patron in 1816. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.