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The Blaker Society © Blaker of Preston Episcopi (and Hove).

Our earliest record of Blakers at Preston Episcopi is the enrolment

together of two wills of 1482 in the Chichester Consistory probate registers, the
first being that of a John Blaker:

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Copia test’i Joh’is Blaker de P ston iux Lewes

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In Dei no’ie amen septimo die Mensis Octobris Anno d’ni Mill’o quingen CCCClxxxij
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Ego Joh’es Blaker de P ston compos ment & sane memorie existens condo test’m meu’ in
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hu’c modu’ In p mis lego a’iam mea’ Deo o’ipoten’ &c’ corpusq’ meu’ sepeliend’ in
cimiterio eccl’ie s’ci Petri de Preston Ite’ lego su’me altari ib’m p dec’is oblit xvjd’ Ite’
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fabrici eccl’ie cicestr’ viijd’ Ite’ cuili’t filiolor meor iiijd’ Ite’ lego Ric’o filio meo sex boues
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quos volo sibi delib’ari q’ncu’q’ placu it mat sue Ite’ lego eide’ centu’ oves tales quales
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placu it matri sue eide’ delib’ari Ite’ volo q vxor mea post decessu’ meu’ delib’et duob filijs
& filie fr’is mei Radulphi ducentas oves dimediu’ eor mat ces & aliud dimediu’ oviu’
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bidenciu’ & cet or eng’ oviu’ quas oves p’r eor eis legauit & ecia’ cuil’it eor vnu’ integru’
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lectu’ & vnu’ papside’ & o’ia alia bona eis legata in cist’ & volo q eis deliberent p executore’
meu’ q’n puenint ad l’tiam etate’ p put apparebit pleni in test’o patris eor Ite’ lego dict’
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eccl’ie de P ston vs iux vlti’am voluntate’ p’ris mei Residuu’ vero bonor meor supius non
legator do & lego Agneti vxori mee & Ric’o Scrase seniori quos facio meos executores p
p’ntes Ita q disponant ea p saluti a’ie mee pare’tu’ fr’m soror amicor meor meliori modo quo
sciuerint &c’

Copy of the testament of John Blaker of Preston by Lewes

In the name of God amen, the 7th day of the month of October in the year of the Lord 1482: I,
John Blaker of Preston, being sound of mind and whole of memory, make my testament in this
manner. Firstly, I leave my soul to God Almighty &c. and my body to be buried in the
graveyard of the church of St Peter of Preston. Also I leave to the high altar there for tithes
forgotten 16d. Also to the fabric of the church of Chichester 8d. Also to each of my little
children 4d. Also I leave to Richard my son six oxen that I want to be delivered to him
whenever it shall please his mother. Also I leave to the same, 100 ewes such as may please
his mother to be delivered to him. Also I wish that my wife after my death shall deliver to the
two sons and daughter of my brother Ralph 200 sheep, half ewes, half wethers, and the other
sheep which their father bequeathed them, and also to each of them a complete set of bedding
and a dish, and all the other goods left to them in the chest; and I will that these things shall
be delivered to them by my executor when they shall come to lawful age, as may appear more
fully in their father’s will. Also I leave to the said church of Preston 5s in accordance with
the last will of my father. I give and leave the remainder of my foods not bequeathed above to
Agnes my wife and to Richard Scrase senior, whom I make my executors by these presents, so
that they dispose of them for the health of my soul, my parents’ brothers’, sisters (and) my
friends as best they know &c.

following which is registered the testament of Walter Knyght:

Copia test’i Walteri Knygh’t de P ston p dict’
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