To the Revd the Minister of Kingsteington

Chanter 232B, 584

  1. Residence, curate and lecturer: I reside constantly in the Vicarage House.

  2. Other benefices: None but the Vicarage of Kingsteington with the Chapelry of Highweek annexed.

  3. Divine service at other churches: I usually officiate once a Month at Highweek & then the Curate (who serves Highweek) officiates at Kingsteington.

  4. Frequency of divine service: Divine Service is performed twice every Sunday with a Sermon each Part of the Day. The same on Christmas Day, the 30 of January, Good Friday, & the 5 of November with a Sermon in the Morning. Prayers on all St. Days, & every Wednesday & Friday in Lent.

  5. Frequency of communion: Every first Sunday in the Month & on the three Great Festivals - Communicants about 140.

  6. Catechising of children: Every Sunday in the year after the Second Lesson in the Afternoon.

  7. Church fabric: Yes.

  8. Glebe terrier: We have a Terrier.

  9. Number of families: About 120.

  10. Chapels: There is a Chapel within the Parish of Kingsteington.

  11. Papists, dissenters and meeting houses: 7 Persons of the Romish Persuasion & one Quaker, but no other Dissenters. No Meeting-House in the Parish.

  12. School, alms-houses, hospital and charitable endowments: Nothing of this kind.

  13. Charity: £50 left 1613 the Interest of which is duly applied, according to the Will of the Donor and some Tenements for the Use of the Parish the Produce of which is duly applied.

    Priest's orders and institution: Instituted June 10. 1737
    Ordained Priest May 20. 1733.

    Christopher Beeke
    near Newton-Bushel Devon.