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The Blaker Society © Peter Paris, clerk 26 July 1573, 12 December 1579 B 1 101
SELMESTON

There are several lay subsidy returns around this date, which have been

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searched by or for Renshaw , but without finding any entry relating to the

to include all householders.

The Manorial Documents Register lists three manors relating to
Selmeston family. However, none of these returns was comprehensive enough
Selmeston: Selmeston Ludlay, Tilton and Sherrington.
The earliest material for Selmeston Ludlay is a court book of 1605 to
1888, held by East Sussex Record Office (SAS/G 68/2/1). For Tilton there is a
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valor of 1525 (with other manors) held by Christ Church college, Oxford (DP
iv.b.1) and accounts for 1526 to 1527 (DY 4). There is nothing early for
Sherrington.

In the absence of reference to any Blaker in Selmeston after 1546, and the
lack of parish registers until over 60 years later, we can perhaps learn something
more from wills. Selmeston was a small parish: there are these wills in the
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Lewes Archdeaconry archives through to 1600 :

William Blacor 4 March 1544 A 1 53
William Martyn, clerk 6 October 1547 A 1 151
John Fawkener, yeoman 18 March 1556, 8 December 1556 A 3 203
Richard Roke 9 August 1552, 20 March 1553 A 3 67
Thomas Fawkenor 15 April 1559, 6 March 1560 A 4 328
John Rowke 19 August 1558, 24 September 1558 A 4 89
John Rucke ?1558 administration A 4 90
Richard Fawkener 11 January 1566, 1 February 1566 A 5 286
Thomas Pecden, singleman 27 January 1567, 6 May 1567 A 5 432
Thomas Theccher 5 February 1560, 10 November 1562 A 5 101
William Rucke administration 4 September 1562 A 5a 8
John Caffenche 20 March 1571, 12 December 1571 A 6 149
Thomas Mason 28 March 1575, 16 September 1575 A 6 335–33
John Porden administration 13 May 1573 B 1 282
John Rucke 14 April 1574 A 6 357
Hugh Jaxon 10 February 1579, 12 June 1579 B 1 117–75
Peter Paris, clerk 26 July 1573, 12 December 1579 B 1 101
John Roffe 6 May 1580, 30 June 1580 A 7 207–85
Edward Thetcher 20 October 1578, 27 November 1578 B 1 100–70
John Mascall, gentleman 10 March 1589, 30 August 1589 A 8 310-82
Richard Hills 2 March 1594, 12 March 1594 B 2 235–191
John Rolfe, husbandman 11 March 1596, 2 April 1596 A 9 377–216*
Thomas Staple, husbandman 16 January 1596, 25 May 1596 B 2 388–219*

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18 archives of the Gage family of Firle: SAS/G4/87 is interesting, in that (6 February 1587) it refers to copyhold
surrender of a wist (20 acres) of land in Selmeston, in Wilmington manor. There are estreats for this manor in
1565 at SAS/CP 215; and a rental of 1584 held at Castle Ashby (NRA 21088 Compton: 831).
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