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Blaber in the 1379 Poll Tax

Although Blaber appears to have been an independent Sussex
surname, it is frequently confused with Blaker both by researchers and in
the original records. In this pair of early deeds the same individual
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appears in the one as William Blaker, in the other as William Blaber:

24 June 1356

[Bedf.]

A. 11443. Feoffment by Alice late the wife of John Gys, knight, sister and heir of
Edmund Gacelyn, to John Cryngelford of Southyevele, in tail, with remainder in default to his
right heirs, of a furlong (quarteriam) of land called ‘Holewey quarter’ and that which William
Blaker formerly held in Southyevele and the tenement which Reginald Race held, with the
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cottage and land formerly of William Pyk the elder in the said town; rent, 10s., and two suits
of her court of Southyevele yearly. Friday, Midsummer day, 30 Edward III.

24 June 1356

[Bedf.]

A. 12024. Feoffment by Alice, late the wife of John [G]yz, knight, and sister and heir
of Edmund Gacelyn to John de Cryngelford, of Suthyevel, in tail, with remainder in default to
his right heirs of the rood (illam quarter’) of land, called ‘Holeweyquarter,’ and the rood of
land, which William Blaber formerly held, in Suthyevel, and the whole of that tenement
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which Reginald Race held, with the cottage and land formerly of William Pyk, the elder,
there; rent, 10s. Friday, Midsummer Day, 30 Edward III. Seal. See A. 11443.

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In the 1379 Sussex poll tax we have:

Brightford Hundred

E179/189/42/21

Launcyng cum sua decena
Lancing

Willelmus Swyth ux’ 6d
Johannes Blabour ux’ 4d

10 A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office. Prepared under the
Superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records. Vol. V. Published under the Direction of the
Master of the Rolls by Authority of his Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department, 1906, London, 145, 232
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