_--I send you an advertisement, from a local
paper of 1767, which shows what stipend was offered to a curate at that
period. The population of Burton Bradstich and Shepton Gorge, in 1821,
was respectively 854 and 311. I do not know what it was in 1767.
The value of the rectory of Burton, with the chapelry of Shepton, was
returned, in 1650, as 201l. In 1826 it was computed to be 500l.
A.D.M.
From "Cruthwell's Sherborne, Shaftesbury, and Dorchester Journal; or
Yeovil, Taunton, and Bridgewater Chronicle of 10th July, 1767."
"A Curate is wanted, at Old Michaelmas next, to serve the
Churches of Burton and Shipton, in Dorsetshire; Salary 36l. per
annum, Easter Offerings, and Surplice Fees; together with a good
House, pleasant Gardens, and a Pigeon House well stock'd. The
Churches are within a mile and a half of each other, served once
a Day, and alternately. The Village of Burton is sweetly
situated, within half a mile of the Sea, about a mile and a half
from Bridport Harbour, and is noted in the Summer for its fine
Mackarel Fishery. Application to be made to the Rev. Mr.
Richards, Rector.
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