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The Blaker Society © The will of Arthur Blaker of Cuckfield husbandman was made 28
CUCKFIELD

Arthur Blaker

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following:
August 1618 and proved by his widow and executrix, Alice, 20 October
In the name of God Amen The twenty eight of August in the yeare of our Lord God one
Thousand six hundred and eighteene I Arthur Blaker of Cuckfyeld in the County of Sussex
Husbandman being sike of body yet neverthelesse of good and perfecte remembrance all laud
and prayse be given vnto the almighty make and ordayne this to bee my last will and
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Testament in manner and forme following viz’t Imp mis I give and bequeathe my soule vnto
Almighty God my maker and Redeemer by whose meanes I hope to be saved and by none
other And my body to be buryed in the Churchyard of Cuckfyeld aforesayd Item I give and
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bequeathe vnto my daughter Margaret Blaker one Joyned bedsteddle w standeth in the low
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Chamber w A fetherbedd performed one windescot Cubbord and one brasse pan Item I give
and bequeathe vnto William Butcher and Alice Butcher sonne and daughter of Richard
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Butcher of Barlcombe each of them. thre shilling four pence A peece of good and lawfull
money of England Item I give and bequeathe vnto Thomas Garr sonne of Thomas Gurr of
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Barlcombe three shilling four pence Item I give and bequeathe vnto my daughter Ellnor
wyfe of the forsayd Thomas Gurr twelvepence Item I give and bequeathe vnto my sonne
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Alexander Blaker one payer of Coarse sheet and all the bord and shelves w are in and
about my house Item I give and bequeathe vnto my grandchilde Richard Blaker three
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shilling foure pence Item I give and bequeathe vnto my sonne in law Richard Kidd one
Chaffebedd and to his wyfe being my daughter Elizabeth Kidd twelve pence Item I give and
bequeathe vnto my grandchild Dorathy Kidd three shilling foure pence Item I give and
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bequeathe vnto my Grandchilde Margaret Butcher one payer of good sheet All the rest of
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my good and Cattell vnbequeathed and not given I give and bequeathe vnto my loving wyfe
Alice Blaker whome I make and ordayne to be my whole Executrix of this my last Will and
Testament my buriall performed and Legacyes payd And my mynde ys that my foresayd
wyfe shall have and enioye the vse of all such housholdstuffe as is here before given and
bequeathed during her naturall life And I doe ordayne make and appoynt Edward Genner
and Thomas Page To be Overseers of this my last will and Testament In Witnes whereof I
have herevnto sett my hand in the presence of these Memorand’ my mynde is that all such
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good and Chattels as my wyfe hath or shall have after my decease w is vnbequeathed and
not given shall after her decease be equally devyded betweene my foure Children That is to
say Alexander, Ellnor, Elizabeth, and Margaret The marke of Arthur Blaker Edward
Genner Thomas Page & me Osmundu’ Salter script’

Probatu’ Coram Mag’ro Will’mo Inians Presb’ro Surrogato vicesimo die Octobris Anno d’ni
millesimo sexcentesimo decimo octavo Juramento Alicie Blaker Relicte d’ci defuncti ac
Executricis &c Cui Co’missa fuit Administrac’o Bonoru’ &c’ de bene et fidel’r
administrando &c’ ad sancta &c’ iurate

Proved before master William Inians, priest, surrogate, the 20th day of October 1618, by the
oath of Alice Blaker, relict of the said deceased and executrix &c. to whom was committed

1 at this period ‘husbandman’ did not mean an agricultural labourer, but rather a farmer of a lesser rank than
yeoman