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The Blaker Society © made in 1570, when his younger children (Richard, William, Edward, Joan,
SELMESTON

Joan and Agatha) were still under age, and so born between 1549 and 1570.
We now find that John Blaker’s farm was held by lease from John

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in West Firle in Easter 1564:
Jeffery, serjeant-at-law. Jeffery acquired the manor of Amies otherwise Levetts
Amies alias Levetts, Amys and Levetts (Manor).
John Jefferay, plaintiff, and John Bolney, esq., and Jane his wife, deforciants — Manors of
AMYSE and LEVETTES and tenements in West Fyrle, Bedingham, Selmyston, Clive near
Lewes, Denton, Sefford and Wyllyngton, also pasture for 2 cows and 200 sheep in WEST
FYRLE, quitclaimed to plaintiff and heirs (East., 6 Eliz. [1564]).

The Manorial Documents register lists two court books for this manor in the
period 1500 to 1660:

1547-1558 draft court book, with Meads otherwise Broad
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East Sussex Record Office SAS/CP 66 NRA 41801 Cavendish
1650-1739 court book, with West Firle
East Sussex Record Office SAS/G 68/8/1 NRA 9421 Gage

Agnes (Fawkner) Blaker died about 1584, for this probate or
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administration is listed in the Lewes Archdeaconry act books:

Agnes Blaker of Firle 11 April 1584 B 1 127

Who was Margaret Fawkner’s second husband?

Margaret left a good deal of property in West Firle: we do not know her
age in 1568, but she had a large number of young grandchildren. In the period
1540 to 1568 there is no Fawkner of (West) Firle will or administration in the
Lewes, Chichester or Canterbury probate archives. There are, however, the
three Selmeston items at Lewes, as mentioned above:

John Fawkener, yeoman 18 March 1556, 8 December 1556 A 3 203
Thomas Fawkenor 15 April 1559, 6 March 1560 A 4 328
Richard Fawkener 11 January 1566, 1 February 1566 A 5 286

This abstract of Thomas Fawkner’s will is given in Fragmenta
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Genealogica:

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William IV. (1509-1833). Alphabetically Arranged and Edited by Edwin H. W. Dunkin, F. S. A., 1914-1915,
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