Revd the Minister of Stoke Gabriel

Chanter 232A, 295

  1. Residence, curate and lecturer: I reside in the Parish, but not in the Vicarage House - for the Vicarage House, if there ever was one, is now lost.

  2. Other benefices: I am only a Curate.

  3. Divine service at other churches: No.

  4. Frequency of divine service: Divine Service is performed in my Church twice on the Lords Day with a Sermon in the morning.

  5. Frequency of communion: Four Times in a Year the Number of Communicants is about Sixty.

  6. Catechising of children: After Trinity Sunday.

  7. Church fabric: Yes.

  8. Glebe terrier: There is no Glebe.

  9. Number of families: About Eighty.

  10. Chapels: There is a Chapel belonging to Sr Frederick Rogers Baronet of Watton Court in this Parish - there is no regular Service performed in it.

  11. Papists, dissenters and meeting houses: None.

  12. School, alms-houses, hospital and charitable endowments: None.

  13. Charity: There is a small Estate left to the poor Widows of this Parish which is duly applied.

    Priest's orders and institution: The Date of my Priest's Orders is the twelfth Day of July 1767.
    A Letter directed by the Post will find me at Stoke-Gabriel, near Totness

    I am, My Lord
    Your Lordships most dutiful and obedient Servant
    Richard Churchward.