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The Blaker Society © Hatchland CUCKFIELD

John Kinge of Tylehouse holds solely from lord Bergevenny (it is said) 1 ferling
called Hatchland in C(uckfield) by a rent of 2s 6d (21 Elizabeth 1578–9).
Query whether Henry Ward gentleman does not pay 8d of this rent.

but the other part of John King’s Hatchland was held by copyhold: his entry for
this immediately precedes Arthur Blaker’s, suggesting that the two parts derived
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from a single plot:

Joh’es kinge Jun’ 28. Eliz: tenet solu’modo de W. C. et H. B. vnam ferlingat’ terr’ voc’
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Hatchland cont’ [blank] acr’ in Cuckfild Vide 12. Ja’ p redd’ 32 H. 8. 19. Jun: 28 El. ij

John King (June 28 Elizabeth (1586) holds solely from (sir) W(alter) C(overt) and (sir)
H(enry) B(owyer) 1 ferling of land called Hatchland containing [blank] acres in Cuckfild, at
a rent of 2s. See 12 James (1614–5). 32 Henry VIII (1540–1). 19 June 28 Elizabeth (1586).

The Lewes Archdeaconry probate calendars show that John Kinge senior
of Cuckfield yeoman made his will 5 August 1616, proved 14 September 1616
(A 15 164; B 4 124). He was buried at Cuckfield:
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[1616.] Aug. 10 Old John King of til’d house.

Broad Street

John Rowe initially found Arthur Blaker’s cottage in Broad Street in
three court rolls: 15 Elizabeth (1572–3) 6d for a fixed fine; 42 Elizabeth (1599–
1600) for a fixed fine; and 16 James (1618–9), for the heriot on Arthur’s death.
Rowe recorded that small cottages paid reduced fines and heriots:

Cottages and cotterlings pay stinted fine and stinted heriot in general; some few cottages pay
stinted heriot and fine arbitrable.
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The fact that a heriot was only payable in 16 James suggests that Arthur
Blaker had been in continuous occupation of the cottage throughout the period.
We have no information as to why he paid fixed fines in 1572–3 and 1599–
1600. But Rowe subsequently added that he had found this property in the court
roll for 21 September 1 Elizabeth (1559).
We know that Arthur’s wife Alice was born about 1539: if Arthur Blaker
inherited the cottage in 1559, he had probably just come of age.

Borough English

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