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The Blaker Society © Preston township, parish or hundred do not appear as such, being subsumed in a

householders:
general entry for Whalesbone hundred, which includes four Blaker
Simon Blaker assessed at £3
John Blaker £4
Richard Blaker £2
Nicholas Blaker £1

Richard may, of course, be the Richard son of John Blaker born, say, 1475. We
have no indication which of these four were living in Preston. Whalesbone
hundred also included Brighton and Hove and West Blatchington.
In a Star Chamber case Duffield v. Drew, 21 August 1533 at East
7
Grinstead , Robert Harman, aged 40, deposed:

that one John Blaker the younger, son of Blaker of Preston, shewed him that his father had
delivered a deed of entail of the said lands to Sir Edward Bray, Knight, and the same Sir
Edward afterwards delivered the said deed to one James Coole, which had married the widow
of Robert Drewe, one of the sons of Thomas Drewe.

Similarly, William Arnold, aged 60,

deposes that he has heard one Blaker of Preston, now deceased, say that he held a deed of
intail in his custody of Tabilherst lands, which deed he delivered to Sir Edward Bray, Knight,
supposing it concerned lands which he, Blaker, sold to Sir Edward

Percy C. Mundy, the editor of the abstracts, stated in a note (in 1913):

From a rental of the manor of Preston, undated, but apparently not later than 1550, in the
possession of Mrs. Thomas-Stanford, the lady of the manor, it appears that Richard Elryngton
acquired from Sir Edward Bray, Knt., by deed dated 10 May 1544 (inter alia), a freehold
messuage or tenement called Blakers in Bishop’s Preston.

Although [Richard?] Blaker thus disposed of some of the Blaker land in
1544, that was hardly the end of the family’s presence in Preston.

[Then there needs to be a narrative of the Blaker entries from Thomas-
Stanford’s edition of the Preston Episcopi court rolls, but melded with the
Blaker entries from the Preston (and Hove) parish registers. It is curious that
Thomas-Stanford’s book stands alone, without any attempt to annotate from
other sources. There were two parallel courts; the View of Frankpledge dealing

7 Abstract printed Sussex Record Society xvi pp. 23-25, 1913, London