West Ogwell Parish Registers

Glebe Terrier 1727

(PR 1/1 page 12)

A copy of the account wch was given to Stephen the Bishop of Exeter, relating to his ...?... concerning all things belonging to the Rectory of West Ogwell, exhibited in April 1727.

Imprimis the Parsonage House belonging to the said Rectory is built with stone & cobb: covered with shindle, well floor’d and planched, the outhouses (viz) a barn, privy & bakehouse are well with thatch, the dwelling house contains a study, 4 chambers, an hall, lineys[?] & milkhouse.

2ly the glebe consists of 2 Fields called the Easter fields about 3 acres & a half distant from the mansion house and bounded with the joyning estate called Beera & heartsease both arable.

Item of 3 Fields called the hills about 6 acres of arable ground, bounded by metley & Robt Crossings estate, Item of an orchard and 2 meadows about 2 acres. Item of 2 fields and the plot below the orchard, about 4 acres arable. Item of 2 barren moors and a coppice about 5 acres. Item the number of timber Elms & Oaks amounts to about 100. Valuable about 15 pounds, Item to the pensions to the minister I know of none, and as to payments from the minister there are synodaly precurations[?] land tax, poor rate, militia, highway repairs of houses & hedges but are now exempted From the payment First Fruits and the tenths by virtue of Queen Annes bounty, For wch I never obtained a farthing; though it cost me considerably to entitle myselfe to it.

3ly the surplice fees are very small by reason of the Fewness of the inhabitants, Item tyths are due to the Rector in kind, generally compounded[?] Fue[?] without customes or prescriptions. Item as to the tyths of colts &c. this is included under the compositions, or fined as the parishioners Agree with the incumbent.

4ly  as to the Furniture & utensills of the church, are very well repaired by the parishioners, Item the communion plate is as ..?.. silver Flaggon given to the church, by the late Madam Reynell, the chalice & parin is ancient the whole weighing about 40 ounces.

Item the edifice of the chancel & homest[?] are all repaired by the Rector, and the churchyard walls by the parish lastly the clarke & the sexton are appointed by the Rector and paid their Annual wages by the parish, In witness all of wch premises, our hands are hereunto subscribed.