FRITHELSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of SHEBBEAR,
county of DEVON, 2 miles (W.) from Great Torrington,
containing 632 inhabitants. The living is -a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and
diocese of Exeter, endowed with £ 200 private benefaction,
£400 royal bounty, and £ 1000 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of Mrs. Prudence Johns. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary and St. Gregory. There
is a charity school, with a small endowment given by
Mr. and Mrs. Gay. In the reign of Henry III., Sir
Robert Beauchamp founded a small house of Augustine
canons, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, St. Gregory, and
St. Edmund, and valued at the dissolution at £127.2.4.
per annum; a small portion of the conventual church
is yet remaining.