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The Blaker Society © Renshaw reports that the will of John Fawkner above
SELMESTON

John Fawkner of Selmeston yeoman

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gave to [blank] Blaker three ewes and conferred benefits on various persons named Swane
This abstract, which corroborates none of the above, is given in
Fragmenta Genealogica:
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JOHN FAULCONER of Selmeston, yeoman. To be buried at Selmeston. To son John all
lands in Chityngleigh. Wife and sons William and Thomas to have my farm and stock. Two
daughters Agnes and Joane. Son Richard. Executors: Sons William and Thomas. Overseers:
James Page (?), esquire, John Faulconer and William Faulconer, yeomen. Dated 24 March
1555. Proved 13 December 1556.

The Sterts

John and Robert Stert were witnesses and executors of William Blaker’s
will in 1545. It would seem likely that John was the John Stert (with a son
Robert) mentioned in the will of Margaret Fawkner of the adjoining parish of
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(West) Firle, made in 1568:

20 Appendix B
21 Lewes Archdeaconry Book A 3 f. 203: we clearly need to see this
22 x 118
23 Lewes Archdeaconry Book A 5 f. 493: we need a copy of the original; this transcript was by Dave Woolven,
who complained that he was working from a scratched microfilm, and who clearly found some of the text
illegible
An abstract of this will was given in Fragmenta Genealogica x 121 (1904) in an article entitled Faulconer
Family Wills 1543–1829. FONS BLAKER 2/3. There are radical differences between the reading in Fragmenta
and the transcript by DW: MARGARET FAULCONER of Firle, widow. To repairs of West Firle Church, 3 4 .
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To repair the road from Small Body towards church 1 . To Alice Tyshurst and Johan Brooke, widows, clothing.
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To Margaret Brooke my god-daughter clothing. To John Seale of the mill wheat. To Thomas Harman of
Warbleton ditto. To Robert Carpenter my god-son a bullock. Bequests of cattle, &c., to Richard Feydelphe my
god-son, and to John Brown ditto. To John, Richard, William, Edward, John (sic) and Joane Blaker sheep, &c.
To son-in-law John Blaker, their father. To Johan Blaker my god-daughter sheets, &c., at 21. To Robert Start
furniture, his father John Start to be constable till 21. To John and Michael Stert cattle. To Edward Vynall a
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great chest which was his uncle’s, Richard Swane’s. To Johan, John, Edward and Richard Vynall, children of
Richard, cattle, he to be constable. Cattle to John Swane, to his sons John and William and his daughter
Margaret, my god-daughter. To John Swane their father, bacon, &c. To Agatha Stert, Jane Vynoll and Agnes
Blaker, my daughters, clothing and also residue to them. A debt due from John Bellingham of Old Shoreham to
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be divided in specified portions between John Swane and John Stert my sons and Richard Vynoll and John
Blaker, sons-in-law, but John Blaker to permit Alice Tyshurst and Johan Brooke, widows, to live on farm during
rest of the lease, otherwise £2 between the widows, £1 to the poor and balance between John Swane my son and
John Blaker, son-in-law. Overseers: John Stert and Richard Vynoll, sons-in-law. Clothes to Richard Stydolfe
and John Browne. A debt owing by Robert Bastian, to John Bastian at 21. Dated 28 January 1567. Proved 22
March 1567. The Faulconer materials collected in this article give no indication of Margaret’s husband’s name,
despite there being extensive coverage of the early wills and parish register entries.
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