Twychen, Deanery of South=Molton

Chanter 225B, 623-624

1. Population and dissenters: Thirty Families & no Dissenters.

2. Public or charity schools: No Publick or Charity School.

3. Alms-house, hospital or charitable endowment: No Alms-house or other Charitable Endowment.

4. Residence upon cure: This Church is reckon’d a Daughter Church to North-Molton where I am oblig’d to reside & to serve this Church one Part of Every Sunday in three Weeks.

5. Curate: No Curate.

6. Divine service at other churches: I perform Divine Service as [sic] no Church besides this & North Molton.

7. Frequency of divine service: Divine Service is perform’d in this Church, but once in three weeks; because North Molton is too large a Cure to suffer me to be absent oftener.

8. Frequency of communion: Four Times every year viz: at Xmas, Easter, Whitsunday & Michaelmas.

9. Number of communicants: Twenty Communicants Ten usually receive. Fifteen attended last Easter.

10. Catechising of children: Children are usually Catechiz’d here in the Summer Time: but the Parishioners are something negligent in sending their Children; however I trust They will be more diligent for the future.

11. Chapels or chapels in ruins: No chapels.

    Twitchen Daughter Church, to North-Molton
    James Flexman A.M. Inst. Octr. 29^th 1742.
    Presb. Sept. 19. 1736. Stephen Exon. [Explanation]