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The Blaker Society © administration of the goods &c. sworn upon the Holy Gospels &c. to well and truly
CUCKFIELD

administer &c.

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Arthur’s burial is recorded at Cuckfield :

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[1618] Sep. 28 Arthur Blaker, an olde man.
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Alice was buried there in 1632:

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[1631/2] Jan. 31 Alice Blaber , widow, about 93 years old.

This suggests that she was born about 1539, and doubtless Arthur a little
earlier. Although parish registers were instituted in England in 1538, those of
Cuckfield survive only from 1598. If we suppose that Arthur was a native of the
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parish, not only his baptism but possibly his marriage to Alice (say, 1560) and
the baptisms of all their children there would be lost to us.
Arthur was certainly living in Cuckfield in 1593:
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16 July 1593
East Grinstead

EAST GRINSTEAD ASSIZES, 16 JULY 1593
Before Robert Clarke, B., and
Serjeant Thomas Owen
[Assizes 35/35/8]

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1434. Charman, William, of Slaugham, husbandman, indicted for grand larceny. On 10 June
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1593 at Cuckfield he stole 19s. 6d. in money from Arthur Blaker.
On 26 Apr. 1593 before Henry Bowyer, J.P., Arthur Blacker of Cuckfield,
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husbandman, entered a recognizance to give evidence against Charman.
On 28 May 1593 before George Goring and Henry Bowyer, J. P.s, John Holand of
Balcombe, husbandman, and John Thomas of Dorking, Surrey, shoemaker, entered
recognizances for the appearance of Charman.
Guilty; allowed clergy.
[mm. 18, 26, 47]

2 Sussex Record Society xiii: p. 147
3 Quite what the parish clerk would have considered ‘an olde man’ is open to debate: in the same year a similar
accolade is given to Mr Edmond Mychell (14 April) and Edmund Tompsett alias Carver (29 October).
4 p. 159
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6 Lewes Archdeaconry marriage licences survive no earlier than 1586, and Chichester Consistory 1575
7 Calendar of Assize Records. Sussex Indictments. Elizabeth I. Edited by J. S. Cockburn, 1975, London, 273.
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9 this date must be wrong, as it is after the date of the recognizances
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