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The Blaker Society © in the surviving Cuckfield parish registers (from 1598). However, his father was
CUCKFIELD
Arthur was born about, say, 1535, too early for his baptism to be recorded
probably alive in 1524 and 1525, for which have lists of Cuckfield householders
41
in the lay subsidy returns :
Source: Sussex Record Society lvi
Title: The Lay Subsidy Rolls for the County of Sussex 1524-25. Transcribed and edited by
Julian Cornwall, 1956, Lewes, 86
1524
Cukfeld
RAPA DE LEWES.
189/119 - 1524.
189/162 - 1525.
HUNDRED’ DE BUTTINGHILL
(VILLATA DE CUKFELD)
1524
...
Gerard Haseling 2
42
Hugh Ashfold 2 6 8
44
43
* Richard Hastings L 1
Richard Blaker 20
Gilbert Standen 2
John a Feld 1
Thomas Ashfold 5
John Nayler 2 6 8
William Parson L 1 6 8
Thomas Vynall 10
John Standen 1
Rauff Blaker 1
Richard Chesman 1
William Clever 1
Richard Robyn 2
...
Considering how conservative naming customs were at the time, it is
striking that the name Ralph (Raffe) appears not to have been continued among
the Blakers at Cuckfield. Richard, however, is very well represented.
41 Sussex Record Society lvi
42 assessed on goods, worth £2
43 name peculiar to the 1524 schedule
44 assessed on lands, worth £1
