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The Blaker Society © Subsequent lay subsidy returns are more restricted, naming only the more
CUCKFIELD

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prosperous inhabitants. These Blakers then appear:

34 and 35 Henry VIII., 1543-4. Record Office, Rolls
[E 179/] 190/192. 190/193, 190/195.
Hundred of Buttinghill
d
Edmund Blaker in goodes £4 8
d
John Blaker [in goodes] £2 4
d
s
Richard Blaker [in goodes] £16 10 5

The difficulty with this is that Buttinghill hundred also comprised Balcombe,
Slaugham and Crawley. Similarly we have in 1 Elizabeth 1558–9. E
179/90/267:

Hundred of Buttinghill
d
John Blaker in goodes 20 1 4
s
s
s
Edmond Blaker [in goodes] £5 5

and in 18 Elizabeth, 1575–6, E 179/190/299 the sole Blaker in Buttinghill
hundred is:

John Blaker’s widow

In 43 Elizabeth, 1601, E 179/190/342, in Cuckfield:

s
d
Richard Blaker in landes 20 s 1 4

Arthur was at this period a relatively unusual christian name. It had come
into use in England after Henry VII named his eldest son, born in 1486, Arthur.
In the early Cuckfield parish registers the name is almost confined to the Blaker
family. The other instances are:

Arthur Collingham pages 113 and 164 [churchwarden 1638]
Arthur Cox pages 204 [his child bur 1692] 206 [his child bur 1694] 207
[child bur] 213 [mar 1684]
Arthur Holford pages 69 [bap 1663] 94 [bap 1694]
Arthur West page 56 [bap 1651]

Francis Blaker

One of the earliest surviving entries in Cuckfield parish registers is this
baptism:

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[1600] Sep. 7 Arter Blaker s. of Francis.

45 taken from Renshaw: need checking