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The Blaker Society

of land in Crigleston, the right of Godfrey of the guift of Robert and his wife.”
A.J. vol. vi., 445.
The connection between the Rockleys and their successors, the
Everinghams, and the Blackers appears in two deeds in Hunter’s South
Yorkshire. “William de Rockley, the son and heir of Peter (as one interested),
appears among the witnesses to a deed by which Sir Hugh de Nevile gives to
Henry de Blacker a capital messuage in Milnthorpe in Worsborough, which
Henry de Milnethurpe formerly held.” “In 1334, Henry, son and heir of William
de Blacker, gives to Sir Adam de Everingham de Rockley an annual rent of 4s
for lands at Blacker.” The Blackers thus appear as tenants of the Rockleys both
at Blacker and at Crigglestone.
The will of Robert Blakker of Sandall parish, dated April 8, 1458, was
proved the following July. In 1466, there was a Thomas Blaker there, who, with
John Haygh demised to John, son of John Boyne, and Agnes his wife, daughter
of John Sprigonell, one messuage and 30 acres of land and meadow in
Criggleston, and one messuage and 16 acres of land and meadow in Cudworth
with the appurtenances which we had of the guift of John Boyne the elder.
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Witnesses, Oliver Haygh, Robert Pell, &c., Dated 6 E. 4. (This Robert Pell was
probably a relation of Robert Pelle who was Vicar of Kirkburton from 1361 to
1406, and they were perhaps both descended from “Thomas filins Pelle” of
Crigglestone in 1297). In 1479, “Robert Blaker held divers lands called Blaker
in Crigleston with the appurtenances in Sandall by soccage.” A.J. vol. vi., 444.
The Will of Thomas Blakker of Sandall parish, dated August 11, 1486,
was proved nine days afterwards.
Another Thomas Blacker appears in 1514 in a Shepley deed in
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Kirkburton parish. “Indenture 30 April, 6 H. 8. , between William Goldthorpe,
son and heir of John, and John Goldthorpe and James Goldthorpe, younger
brethren of said William, for certain large sums of money paid by them Wm. G.
grants that George Castell, John Kay of Stackwood Hill, Peter Kay, Robert
Palmer, Sir Ric. Palmer, chaplain, Thomas Blacker and Gilbert Savile shall
recover against the said Wm. G. by writ of entry in le post All lands of said
Wm. G. in co. York, to wit, 12 messuages, 30 acres of meadow, 100 of pasture,
10 of wood, and 20 of rent in Goldthorp, Bolton on Dearne, Bylyngly,
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Bernborough nnd Shepley,” &c. An earlier deed, also amongst Wilson’s deeds
in the British Museum, shows clear connection between men of Crigglestone
and men of Shepley, both places being in the Manor of Wakefield. It should be
noted that this deed, the original of which is in Latin, was dated in the time of
Robert Pelle. Vicar of Kirkburton. “William de Preston supra le Hill, Thomas
de Wollay de Pontefracto, and Richard de Thornhill grant to William de
Scheplay the whole manor of Scheplay with its appurtenances which we have of

1 4 March 1466-3 March 1467
2 30 April 1514