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What number of families have you in the parish. Of these how many are dissenters
Ie papists,presbyterians, baptists or quakers ?
Twenty nine families no dissenters but one and they are Quakers

Are there any dissenting meeting houses in your parish ?
We have no licensed or other meeting house

How many schools are there in the parish ?
We have no publick but a charity school where I teach myself for which there is £4 given to me by the Lord of the Manor for teaching four poor children in ye parish

Are you resident in the parish ?
I live upon ye Cure being ye curate and dwell in ye house

Do you have a curate ?
I am ye curate and hope I am qualified accordingly and live in ye house and have allowed 17 in ye year with ye surplice dues

How often are services held ?
But once because I have two churches to attend yearly twice every Sunday

How may parishioners are unbaptised or unconfirmed ?
I know of none who are not baptised and of competent age and not confirmed

How often is Holy Communion celebrated ?
Three times in ye year about four score communicants. About thirty attend in general but above three score at Easter last and at others

How often do you catechize ?
I catechize when opportunity serves and especially in Lent and the parishioners do their duty and see that those under them be instructed

Do you give timely warning of the Sacrament and do parishioners send in their names
Have you refused the Sacrament to anyone ?
I give timely warning of ye Sacrament and parishioners send in their names as required.
I have refused ye Sacrament not to any one.

If it is assumed that people were confirmed in their youth there were 80 communicants over the age of 14 in 1746 and it is interesting to see that Eucharist was onlyheld three times a year and on Feast Days. As there were 29 families compared with 31 in 1673 the population is not likely ot have changed much in the space of 173 years.The Quaker family was the Freers who were the tenants of Ashberry Farm in 1746 and as churchwarden Benjamin Cole had married Elizabeth Freer in 1718 one wonders if she was a Quaker and changed to an Anglican before she married.