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The Blaker Society © Arthur Blaker of Cuckfield 1618
BLAKER WILLS

Lewes Archdeaconry Book A 16, f. 214

In the name of God Amen The twenty eight of August in the yeare of
our Lord God one Thousand six hundred and eighteene I Arthur Blaker of
Cuckfyeld in the County of Sussex Husbandman being sike of body yet
neverthelesse of good and perfecte remembrance all laud and prayse be
given vnto the almighty make and ordayne this to bee my last will and
Testament in manner and forme following viz’t Imp mis I give and
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bequeathe my soule vnto Almighty God my maker and Redeemer by
whose meanes I hope to be saved and by none other And my body to be
buryed in the Churchyard of Cuckfyeld aforesayd Item I give and
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bequeathe vnto my daughter Margaret Blaker one Joyned bedsteddle w
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standeth in the low Chamber w A fetherbedd performed one windescot
Cubbord and one brasse pan Item I give and bequeathe vnto William
Butcher and Alice Butcher sonne and daughter of Richard Butcher of
Barlcombe each of them. thre shilling four pence A peece of good and
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lawfull money of England Item I give and bequeathe vnto Thomas Garr
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sonne of Thomas Gurr of Barlcombe three shilling four pence Item I
give and bequeathe vnto my daughter Ellnor wyfe of the forsayd Thomas
Gurr twelvepence Item I give and bequeathe vnto my sonne Alexander
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Blaker one payer of Coarse sheet and all the bord and shelves w are in
and about my house Item I give and bequeathe vnto my grandchilde
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Richard Blaker three shilling foure pence Item I give and bequeathe vnto
my sonne in law Richard Kidd one Chaffebedd and to his wyfe being my
daughter Elizabeth Kidd twelve pence Item I give and bequeathe vnto
my grandchild Dorathy Kidd three shilling foure pence Item I give and
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bequeathe vnto my Grandchilde Margaret Butcher one payer of good
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sheet All the rest of my good and Cattell vnbequeathed and not given I
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give and bequeathe vnto my loving wyfe Alice Blaker whome I make and
ordayne to be my whole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament my
buriall performed and Legacyes payd And my mynde ys that my
foresayd wyfe shall have and enioye the vse of all such housholdstuffe as
is here before given and bequeathed during her naturall life And I doe
ordayne make and appoynt Edward Genner and Thomas Page To be
Overseers of this my last will and Testament In Witnes whereof I have
herevnto sett my hand in the presence of these Memorand’ my mynde is
that all such good and Chattels as my wyfe hath or shall have after my
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decease w is vnbequeathed and not given shall after her decease be
equally devyded betweene my foure Children That is to say Alexander,
Ellnor, Elizabeth, and Margaret The marke of Arthur Blaker Edward
Genner Thomas Page & me Osmundu’ Salter script’

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