Population and dissenters: There are about one Hundred & twenty families in my Parish & there are only two men, Dissenters, & they are call’d Quakers; There’s no licens’d or other Meeting House in my Parish.
Residence upon cure: The Rector (Mr. Thomas Giffard) does not at present reside upon his Cure for several reasons, but lives at Wilsford in ye County of Wilts: & has the care of the Churches.
Curate: The Rector has a residing Curate, whose name is John Longman, duly qualifyed according to the Canons, He lives with his Family in the Parsonage House, & is allowed forty pounds a year.
Frequency of divine service: Divine Service is performed in my Church twice every Lord’s Day with two sermons in the Summer & one in the morning in the Winter & prayers are read on particular Holy days.
Frequency of communion: Four times in a year, on the three Great Festivals and on the first Sunday after Michaelmas.
Number of communicants: There are fifteen or sixteen Communicants in my Parish, & (as well as I can remember) about twelve communicated last Easter.
Chapels or chapels in ruins: There’s a little minory Chapel in my Parish about three miles from the Church, but Divine Service has not been performed in it time immemorial.
John Longman A.B. Presb. Sept: 21. 1735. Stephen Exon. [Explanation]