To the Revd the Minister of Shobrook

Chanter 232A, 152

  1. Residence, curate and lecturer: The Curate who resides in the Parsonage House, has but forty Pounds per Annum for Serving the Cure.

  2. Other benefices: I have no Benefice.

  3. Divine service at other churches: No.

  4. Frequency of divine service: I perform the Service & preach twice every Lords day.

  5. Frequency of communion: Four times.
    About Sixty.

  6. Catechising of children: In Lent Wednesdays; and about Midsummer & Michaelmas on Sundays.

  7. Church fabric: Yes.

  8. Glebe terrier: I have been informed yt there is a Terrier in the Register's Office - Exon, but never could get a Sight of it.

  9. Number of families: About 100.

  10. Chapels: We have no Chapel.

  11. Papists, dissenters and meeting houses: Not one [papist]. Nor but one Dissenter.

  12. School, alms-houses, hospital and charitable endowments: We have a School to teach Poor children to read & write but no Alms Houses, nor other charitable endowments. No [parochial library].

  13. Charity: [No answer given]

    Priest's orders and institution: The Date of my Priest's Orders is July 7th 1728
    Witness my Hand this 11th of May 1779
    Hen: Manning curate of Shobrooke, near Crediton, Devon.