A second Blake will at Warmister in this group of wills. In total there are ten wills/admon for Blake members at Warminster with this particular one being the oldest and it is for William Blake probated in 1539. The next will there is for Henry Blake in 1571, followed by the will of Thomas Blake in 1584. Then a jump to 1626 with a will for Henry Blake and 1639 a will for John Blake (yeoman). Then a will for a William Blake circa 1688 and followed by a will for William Blake Grocer 1702 (and another for a William Blake in 1701). I only hold these two wills from the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office.
This is the oldest will in this group of wills from the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office. I acquired them a number of years ago but have not transcribed them or actually even read them in all this time. I had hoped that they would reveal more about the early Blake family in Wiltshire and in some ways they have done so. Linking some of them together has been a bonus.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Oct 2012
Source: Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office P2/1Reg/1B
Name of testator: William Blake
Place: Warminster, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 19 Aug 1539, 8 Mar 1539 (old style)
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: 16th century, middle English, smallish writing (some bleed through)
[Margin] Blake C
1 In the name of god Amen In the yere of our Lord god a[nno] M CCCCC
2 xxxix ti the xix daye of August I Wyllam Blake of
3 warmister hole in mynd and of good memery never the lasse wyeke
4 in body make my laste testament and my laste wyll in that man[ner]
5 and forme folowynge Fyrste I bequeth my sowle to
6 allmyghty god and my body to be buryed in the church of warminster
7 Allso I give unto Wyssley my wyffe all my fre land whiche
8 I have purchesye durynge the terme of her lyfe and after
9 the decesse of her lyfe and after the decsse of her lyfe The same
10 lande to remayne to remayne to remayne to harry my sone and to
11 his heires male and after the decesse of he heres male and
12 for lackynge of them that is to saye of the sayd harry the same
13 land to remayne to his nexte brother in ayg and to his hayrys
14 male so yt the same land to remayne styll to remayne in the
15 name of the Blake so longe as ther be heres male to in
16 herytt yt and for fanot of heires male the same land shall
17 come to heires female that ys to the eyre generall the nexte of
18 the blood Allso I geve to my wyfe all suche goods as be in my
19 howse moveable and unmoveable unmoveable except iij longe table
20 bords w[i]t[h] fowrnigs and trestells partenynge thereto which shall remayne
21 styll in the howse and y geve to here all the wool in my barton and the
22 wool in the porte way And viii lods of wool lynge w[i]t[h] ewes
23 my yeat and all my olde whete and on may of barley and ij kyne and wone
24 mare Allso I give to Stephyn my sonne my purchasse called
25 Putleres and my oxene w[i]t[h] all man[ner] of harnesse p[er]teynynge there to
26 suffycyent for vi oxen Allso I geve to Thomas my sone the
27 purchesse of the tenement whiche Olyvere Taner dewelethe in
28 Into his use and proffet Allso I geve and bequethe to my iij
29 yongest sonnys Thomas Nycholas and John all my crope croppe of
30 corne and haye excepte yt above named to my wyffe Allso I
31 geve to them a xi herssys and x oxen ij stere bullocks iij
32 weynynge callves and xvij shepe and all the wool wyth owte my yeat
33 except viij lods geven to my wyffe above namyd And all
34 my dettes which be dewe to me to be payed Allso I give to my
35 ij dowghters Elizabeth and Angnes xiij L vi s iiij d to be taken out
36 of the por[t]ion of the goods which I have given to my iij yongest
37 sonnys above named and to be equaly devyded by twyxt them
38 by the dyfision of John Rawlyns and George Rawlyins and my
39 sone harry blake whiche I make my overseers to se that my last
40 wyll instlye and truly fullfylled and I gave ye said John Rawlynes
41 and George eche of them for ther paynye xxvi s viij d It[e]m I give
42 to reparynge and mendynge of the second bell in warmister thereof x s
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43 Allso I geve to B Everatt Robarts iij s iiij d all the reste of my goodyes and cattall
44 and un moveabyll I geve and bequethe to my iij yongeste sonnys a bove
45 namely Thomas John and Nycholas and I make theme my full executors
46 to ex[p]ence for the dyscharge of my sowle by the ov[er]syetht and consayle of
47 my overseeres above named Allso yf any of my chylderene above named
48 dep[ar]te owte of this world before they be of lawfull age to have the use of
49 my goods a bove wryten I wyll there p[ar]te and porcyon shall remayne to
50 the other as well my dowters as my sonnys Allso I wyll that my
51 ov[er]seere above named John George and harry shall have the full over
52 syght and governance of my sonnys above named Thomas Nycholas and
53 John and of ther goods tyll they be of aege and dysiziyon to have the
54 use of them Those men beynge wytnesse Syr Everatt Robarts
55 pryst Richard Robarts Fysbere Thomas Rogers John Swage w[i]t[h] many mo[re]
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