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The Blaker Society © The superior court to Lewes Archdeaconry was Chichester
BLAKER WILLS

Chichester Consistory

Consistory. After the abolition of the ecclesiastical probate courts in
1858, the consistory records were transferred to Chichester Probate
Registry, and in 1915 a calendar of wills from 1482 to 1800 by E. H. W.
Dunkin and Edward Alexander Fry was printed as Index Library volume
49. The main sequence of wills is contained in ‘transcript registers’.
There are 45 volumes of these registered wills: there are gaps in 1598,
1606, 1611–17, 1620–5, 1640–3, 1653–59. However, as well as the
registers there are bundles of original wills from about 1550 to 1590 Orig.
A.1]; 1606 [A. Dean]; 1611–17 [B. Dean], 1621–5 [M. Dean] and 1640–
43 [S. Dean]; and some unregistered wills [Orig. B. 5].
The calendar does not cover administrations, which survive from
1555 onwards.
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These Blaber, Blaker &c. wills are listed :

Blaber, John, Arundell (orig. B. 138) 8 240 1557
John, the elder, Sompting 15 103 1600
John, Angmering 27 178 1680
Susan, widow, Billingshurst 39 246 1695
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Blaker, Edmund, Nuthurst 18 347b 1634
Edward, Porteslade (?orig. F. 93) 10 466b 1571
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Blackcar, George, Lancing S. Dean. 14 1640
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John, Preston 2 89b 1482
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John, Sompting 40 341 1762

John, Steyning 42 64 1769
Mary, widow, Goreing 45 336 1799
Thomas, Walberton 10 61b 1560
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William, Torton M. Dean. 16 1612
William, Goring 43 215 1778

24 no Blatcher or variant is found
25 we have an abstract of the will and a scan of the act book entry: but no scan of the will
26 we have scans and a transcript of the will, but not of the act book entry
27 we have scans of the will and inventory and a transcript, but no act book entry
28 with Walter Knyght of Preston: transcripts below
29 we have a scan of the inventory
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