The testator is Robert Blake of Fifield and he names his wife Mary and his children as William and Dorothy. William his son has died before the will is probated and Mary has been named Executrix. Dorothy is not mentioned in the probate so is under age or has also died.
Robert also names a cousin John Tomkins of Andover. No ideas on this particular Blake family which has daughtered out by 1662.
There is also an inventory and the latin in the probate is a challenge. I shall work away at these and post them later.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 2 Feb 2014
Source: Hampshire Record Office, 1662B-08
Testator: Robert Blake, Gent
Place: Fifield, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 6 Sep 1661, probated 8 May 1662
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: 1662B-08
1 In the Name of God Amen I Robert Blake of Fifeild in the County of South[ampton]
2 Gent being in p[er]fect Sence and memory tho[ugh] Sick in body doe make and ordaine this my last
3 Will and Testament in forme and manner following First I bequeath my Soul into the
4 hands of my gracious and mercifull God and my body to be buried in Christian burial
5 in the Church or Churchyard of Fifeild afores[ai]d My worldly goods I bestow as followeth
6 I give and bequeath unto my Son William Blake and his heires for ever All my Lands
7 Dwelling houses barnes Stables and other buildings whatsoever with the appurtenances
8 thereunto belonging and being in Fifeild afores[ai]d conditionally that he pay yearly and
9 every yeare unto Mary my wife the sum[m]e of Twelve pounds good and lawfull money of
10 England for her maintenance during her natural life And on the like condition that
11 he pay unto my daughter Dorothy Blake the sum[mn]e of one hundred pounds good and
12 lawfull money of England when she shall attaine unto the Age of one and twenty yeares
13 Or on the day of her marriage which shall first happen And Likewise that he pay
14 unto her my said daughter Dorothy Blake yearly and every yeare after she is married
15 or is one and Twenty Yeares of Age during her natural life the Sum[m]e of Five pounds
16 good and lawfull money of England And until my said daughter Dorothy be one and
17 Twenty yeares of Age or be married my Will is that my Said Son William Blake shall
18 pay her Yearly and every Yeare the Sum[m]e of Eight pounds good and lawfull money
19 of England for her maintenance And if it shall soe happen that my said Son William
20 Blake Shall dye Childlesse Then I give and bequeath All my afores[ai]d lands and houses
21 with the appurtenances unto my daughter Dorothy Blake and her heires for ever And
22 if it shall soe happen that my said Son William Blake shall dye And my said daughter
23 Dorothy shall dye both of them Childlesse before Mary my Wife that then my s[ai]d Wife
24 shall have hold and enjoy All my aforesaid lands with the appurten[an]ces And my will
25 Is that whosoever shall have my afores[ai]d land shall pay yearly and every Yeare
26 unto my Said Wife the afores[ai]d Sum[m]e of Twelve pounds for her maintenance Item
27 my Will is that all my goods Chattles and household Stuffe within dores and without
28 Shall be equally divided between my Said Wife And my Said Son William Blake
29 And if my Said Wife dye before such division of my goods be made then my Will
30 Is that my said daughter Dorothy shall have the one half of all my goods and
31 Chattles and household Stuffe within dores and without Item I make and ordaine my
32 Son William Blake Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I appoint
33 Henry Franklin of Thruxton and my Cousin John Tomkins of Andever Overseers
34 of this my last Will and Testament desiring them to see it performed And I give unto each
35 of them Tenn Shillings And that this is my Last Will and Testament I have hereunto
36 Sett my hand and Seale the Sixth day of September 1661 Robert Blake
37 Declared and published In the p[re]sence of John Feilder Rector of Thruxton
38 Henry Francklin
39 Octavo die mensis Maij Anno D[o]m[in]I 1662
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