To the Revd the Minister of Frithelstock

Chanter 232A, 109

  1. Residence, curate and lecturer: Frithelstock being a day Impropriation & the Minister having nothing more than what is usually called the perpetual Curacy, there is no Parsonage or Vicarage House - but I live in my own House, close by the Church - There is no Lecturer.

  2. Other benefices: Besides the perpetual Curacy of Frithelstock I have the Vicarage of Coleridge - in the Diocese of Exeter - Archdeaconry of Barnstaple & Deanry of Chumleigh.

  3. Divine service at other churches: Only at Frithelstock.

  4. Frequency of divine service: Twice every Lord's Day with a Sermon in the Morning.

  5. Frequency of communion: Four times in a year - Number of Communicants in general upwards of forty - sometimes nearly sixty.

  6. Catechising of children: Usually after Whitsuntide, in the longest days. this year I begin much sooner.

  7. Church fabric: Church, Chancel & Churchyard in good order - & all things fit for divine Service.

  8. Glebe terrier: There are no Glebe Lands or Houses.

  9. Number of families: Eighty & upwards.

  10. Chapels: No Chapel in this Parish.

  11. Papists, dissenters and meeting houses: No reputed Papist - no Meeting House for Dissenters.

  12. School, alms-houses, hospital and charitable endowments: There is no School besides a very smale one for teaching Children to read - There is an Alms House properly taken Care of - no parochial Library.

  13. Charity: There is a small Estate in the Parish of Black-Torrington in the County of Devon for the use of poor Labourers, the Income of which is duly applied.

    Priest's orders and institution: Licence October the 2d 1765 - Priest orders September 23d 1759
    Frithelstock - near Great Torrington Devon
    James Gay.