Glebe Terrier for Instow Parish 1727

North Devon Record Office ref: 3064A/PB/8 

Transcribed by David Carter 2022

[Implied letters in brackets have been added by the transcriber. Spelling remains verbatim]

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[This copy] extracted from the Principal Registry of the Lord Bishop of Exeter in the year 1771.

May the 4th 1727.  A Terrier of the Parsonage House, Glebe and Tythes of Instow in the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple, Devon.

Imp[rimi]s.
As you enter the Parsonage House there is on the right hand, one hall with a lime-ash floor, but no ceiling or plaistering over head, nor any wainscott in the whole house. Within the Hall one Parlour with a lime ash floor, and one buttery with a chamber on the north side, over the parlour and chamber and over the Buttery one Chamber plaistered, with a small Garrett or Loft adjoining not plaistered. On the left hand of the entry, one Kitchen with a Lime ash floor with a Scullery adjoining, and over them two Chambers with Study over the Entry and part of the Hall.
Before the House a Courtyard walled round, with a large barne containing one and forty feet in length. Behind the House is another Court with out-houses round it, on the left on[e] Room with a chamber over it, and one Malt House, on the right a Dairy or Cheesehouse and Shippon, on the north side one Stable and a Pigs House, on the east side of the House is another little Barne.
The dwelling house is built partly of stone and partly of cob or mud wall and covered with tiles or slates. The out-houses are built mostly with cob or mud walls and covered with thatch.

ITEM: On the north west side of the houses is one little orchard containing by estimation one quarter of an acre be it more or less, & on the south side of the Houses over against the Barne an Herber* with a little orchard adjoining to it, and on the south side of the Herber and Orchard one plott of Ground called or commonly known by the name of the Mount containing by estimation halfe and acre be it more or less.

ITEM: On the east side of the little Barne one little Green with a foot path therow itt, on the east side of the Green one Close of Land commonly called or known by the name of Longland containing by estimation three acres or thereabout be it more or less. On the north side of the Green, one close called the Barn Close containing one acre and one quarter be it more or less. On the east side of the Barn Close lyeth another little close called the well close containing three quarters of an acre be it more or less, and on the north side of the two foresaid closes adjoining lyeth a little long meadow containing one acre be it more or less.

ITEM: On the east side of them lyeth a plott of Ground commonly called or known by the name of way parke with a foot path over it containing halfe an acre or thereabout be it more or less. On the north side adjoining lyeth another field called or commonly known by the name of the middle park containing three acres or thereabout be it more or less. And on the north side of the middle parke lyeth another field called or commonly known by the name of the lower close, with a little copps on the west side of it containing on the whole two acres or thereabout be it more or less, on the west side of the middle parke lyeth another close called or known by the name of the wester close containing two acres or thereabout be it more or less, and on the north side of the wester, cross a lane lyeth a plott of ground or little close containing three quarters of an acres or thereabout be it more or less.

ITEM: Neare by the marsh lyeth two closes or peices of ground adjoyning commnonly called or known by the name of the flocklands containing three acres or thereabout be they more or less, with the pasturing of a mare and colt on the Commons or marsh thereunto adjoinyning.

ITEM: On the east side of the Church two cottage houses, one of them containing two rooms and floors with two chambers over them plaistered, with a little court before it walled, and a small court behinde it with linnaye round it, with a garden and little plott of ground adjoyning to the house and to the churchyard containing one quarter of an acre or there about be it more or less. The other cottage house with one chimnay but without a chamber and was in a former incumbants time converted into a malthouse, and of late years hath been made use of as a barne for the tythes.

ITEM: On the south side of the foresaid houses, cross the Kings Highway lyeth a little close or plott of ground commonly called or known by the name of Friers close with a little orchard on the south side of it and one other little orchard at the north east corner of the same close, containing in all three quarters of an acre be it more or less. The said two Cott Houses are built with cob or mudwalls and covered with thatch, the whole Glebe is about Twenty acres, three acres near the parsonage house in three fields are generally reckoned meadow and the rest either for pasture or tillage.

The Glebe Lands are butting and bounding on or against the Land of William Paige Esq, and the Lands of the Lords of the Manor of Instow. The fences are altogether hedges and for the most part belong to, and are maintained by the Glebe. There are a few Elms of no long growth nor great value.

The Surplice fees are Easter offerings, to wit, two pence for every person in the parish above the age of sixteen years, For marriages two shillings and six pence, for Mortuarys according to the statute, for Christening of women six pence, for burials nothing.

The Rector saith all manner or Tythes are due in kinde but the Parishioners pretend severall customs as follows (viz): for a calf sold six pence, for a calf reared a half penny, for every lamb three pence, for every fleece of wood [sic] two pence, for every sheep taken in to wintering three pence, for every garden a penny, for a colt one shilling, for every Cow six pence yearly in liew of Tythe milk, and Tythe shall be paid for all wood and furze (except hedge wood) and for all sort of corne, grass, fruits and hops; and for honey and pigs and geese at the number seven.

There is plush cloth for the communion table and proper linnen for the communion, with one silver bowl weighing ten ounces, and one silver salver weighing seven ounces, and one pewter flagon. One large new Bible, two new large Common Prayer Books, one book of Homalys, three bells.

The Chancel repaired by the Rector, and the Church and Churchyard fences by the parish out of the Church rates. The Clark and Sexton are appointed by the Rector and their wages paid out of the Church Rates.

In Witness whereof we the minister, church wardens and other inhabitants of the said parish of Instow have hereunto sett our hands the Day and year first above written,

Signed: 
Sam[ue]l Burges, rector

The mark of:
David Edwards and Art[hur] Beare, churchwardens

Parishioners:
James Rude (Reede?), mariner
John Sellers
David Cornwall (his mark)
Robert Knill
Emanuel Parker
James Rude (Reede?) senior
John Raynald
John Horwood
John Rude (Reede?)
Robert Davis

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Definitions:

Glebe Terrier: a survey of Church lands.
Herber: a garden in which herbs and vegetables are grown.

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