Population and dissenters: Families in Thorncombe – 219 of which Ten are Pres: two Quakers & one anabaptist.
Public or charity schools: We have a charity School endow’d with an house, orchard & garden, in which are taught sixteen poor children, to read English, & to write, & are instructed in the principles of the Christian Religion.
Residence upon cure: I doe personally reside upon my cure, & in my vicaridg house.
Curate: I have a residing Curate, who lives near me, to whom I allow forty pounds per annum, If your Lordship pleas to License him his name is Thomas England.
Number of communicants: About forty or fifty communicants usually receive the communion not full forty last Easter they being at London.
Catechising of children: The children are catechiz’d in the summer time when sent, but having a sermon both in the forenoon & afternoon in the winter, they are not.