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The Blaker Society © John Stert of Firle SELMESTON 18 June 1582 A 1 182

6 August 1548
Thomas Start of Arlington
B 2 174
26 May 1593

6 April 1582
A 7 274
Thomas Sturt of Bishopstone

B 36
Alice Start of Glynde widow
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6 November 1605
A 12 192
7 February 1606
John Start of Firle, yeoman 8 November 1596 13 October 1597 B 1 103
B 3 92
John Starte of Beddingham 11 December 1613 B 4 27
John Start of Firle 8 March 1623 13 April 1624 A 18 150
B 5 161
Michael Starte of Firle 4 June 1625 B 5 210
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B 5 211
Nicholas Start of Firle 10 November 1628 B 6 15
Michael Start of Firle 11 November 1628 B 6 16
Michael Start of Firle 12 November 1628 B 6 16
John Sturt of Seaford 27 November 1630 B 6 73
John Sturt of Seaford 30 November 1630 B 6 74
Thomas Start of Chalvington 16 April 1631 B 6 86
Michael Start/Sturt of Blatchington 12 December 1636 7 January 1636 A 24 140
B 7 29

John Blaker’s children

John Blaker was married to Agnes, another daughter of Margaret
Faulconer, and by 1568 he had these children, all under age, and probably all
under 14: John, Richard, William, Edward, Joan and Joan (plus, possibly,
Edmund), i.e. born 1554 to 1568. John Blaker son of William Blaker of
Selmeston was apparently, but not certainly, of age in 1544.
In the 1568 will there is this particular bequest:

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to John Blaker my sonne in law xl on this condicon that he the said John Blaker shall suffer
and p’myt Alice Tyshurst widow and Johane Brooke widow peaseable and quyetly to inhabyt
and dwell in the howse or tenement wheras they now do dwell duringe all the space and term
of yeres that he the said John Blaker now hath? In the farme? wheras he now dwelleth. But
if it happen the said John Blaker at any tyme duringe the sayd yeres of the ferme? Wrongfully
or ...onsly do molest trouble vex or put forth the said ii widowes out of the howse whear they
now dwell the behavinge theym selves gently sobrely and quyetly as they ought to do

This does not specify where John Blaker’s farm lay, apart from making clear
that the eviction of Alice Ticehurst and Joan Brook lay within his power:
doubtless both were poor, and no will or administration for either appears in the
Lewes Archdeaconry archives.

25 we need a copy of this
26 15 August 1607 Lewes Archdeaconry marriage licence: Michael Starte yeoman & Joan Fawkener of
Westfurle: sureties, the said Michael Starte and Mr John Boone, clerk. To be married at Westfurle.
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