Lancras, Deanery of Hartland

Chanter 225B, 848-849

1. Population and dissenters: There are Seven Families in this Parish. No Dissenters of any Denomination.

2. Public or charity schools: There is no publick or Charity School endowed or otherwise maintained in my Parish.

3. Alms-house, hospital or charitable endowment: There is on Alms-house, Hospital, or other Charitable Endowment in my Parish.

4. Residence upon cure: I do not reside upon my Cure in my Parsonage House as your Lordship knows I reside at Pilton by your Lordship’s Permission.

5. Curate: I have a Curate who resides with his Father and on the Account of the Smalness of the Income of Woolfardisworthy serves Lancrass for me once in a fortnight his Name is Robert Hamlyn.

6. Divine service at other churches: [No answer given]

7. Frequency of divine service: [No answer given]

8. Frequency of communion: The Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is administred four times in the Year of which Easter is one.

9. Number of communicants: There are about twenty Communicants in my Parish of which five of them received Easter last past.

10. Catechising of children: [No answer given]

11. Chapels or chapels in ruins: There are no Chapels within this Parish.

    Lancrass R. John Whitlocke Civil. Inst. Sept.
    Presb. Sept. 25. 1726. Stephen Exon [Explanation]