Peter Blake testator is the son of Peter Blake whose will was transcribed earlier.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/09/will-of-peter-blake-of-andover-national.html
From the Visitation of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in 1686, Peter Blake was the son of Peter Blake and Margaret Smith (daughter of Vincent Smith). He was at Balliol College, University of Oxford and was said to be 20 years of age in 1686 (hence he was 28 years of age when his will was probated). Peter does mention his step mother Elizabeth in his will (Elizabeth daughter of James Gould of Dorchester, Dorset). This Visitation is the one that I question most often as the father of Peter (will 1692) is said to be William (will 1642) son of Richard Blake of Andover (will in 1622) son of William Blake and Anne Tutt (1st son William mentioned in his grandfather's will of 1606). It just isn't possible for a younger son Richard to have married Jone Blake daughter of William Blake and for them to have had their 14 children who were mostly adults by 1622. Indeed Richard did have a son William (baptized c1587) who was the linen draper and a son Peter baptized in 1596 and William (baptized 1615) suspiciously had a daughter Dorothy who married John Smyth and a son Peter baptized 1619) . Dorothy Smyth having been mentioned in Peter (father of this testator Peter Blake) Blake's will. Only one brother of Peter is mentioned in the Visitation and that is John Blake (baptized 1624 at Andover) and he was apprenticed to Robert Mason merchant 11 Jul 1642 (he would be 18 years of age).
There is a second visitation for the Blake family in the 1686 version and it lists Peter as a brother to William Blake of Eston towne and Anne Tutt and hence son of William Blake of Eastontowne. The question is does this make him too elderly to have been the testator in the will although would have been born only ten to twelve years earlier since he is not mentioned in his grandfather's will of 1607. In 1692 he would have been 72 years old according to the earlier visitation mentioned. No ages are given on the second Visitation. Anyway a puzzle thus far that joins the other puzzles that the wills have introduced into my Blake study.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 2 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/418/296
Name of testator: Peter Blake
Place: Andover, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:, 2 Nov 1693, probated 16 Feb 1694
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: tiny middle English writing, smeared copy
[In margin] T[estato]r
[In margin] Petri Blake
1 In the name of God Amen
2 this second day of November Anno Dom[ini] one thousand six hundred ninetie
3 and three I Peter Blake of Andover in the County of south[amp]ton Esq[uir]e doe
4 make this my last will and Testament in manner following and first I
5 resigne my soule unto the hands of God who gave it trusting in the
6 merritt of Jesus Christ to be made partaker of life everlasting and
7 my body I comitt to the Earth to be decently buried in the parish Church
8 of Andover at the discretion of my Executrix hereinafter named and
9 as concerning my worldly Estate I dispose thereof in manner
10 following Impr[im]is my will is that all my just debts which shall be due
11 and owing unto any person or persons whatsoever at my decease be by my
12 Executrix hereafter named with all concern and Speede paid and
13 satisfied and I doe hereby charge all my Mannors Farmes
14 Messuages and Tentements Landes and premisses whatsoever lying and
15 being in the County of South[amp]ton or elsewhere for payment of my
16 said just debts and Legacyes hereafter mentioned and after
17 payment of my said just debts and Legacies hereafter given
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18 in and by this my will I give and bequeath all my said Mannors Farmes Messuages
19 Lands Tenements hereditaments and premisses whatsoever lying and being in the
20 said County of South[amp]ton or elsewhere with all and singular there and every of their
21 appurtenances unto my deare and loving sister Mrs. Sarah Lambert the now
22 wife of Edward Lambert of Boyton in the County of Wilts[hire] Esq[ui]r[e] To have and
23 to hold the said seveerall Mannors Farmes Messuages Tenements Lands
24 hereditaments and premisses whatsoever unto the said Sarah Lambert for
25 and during the terme of her naturall life without impeachement of or for
26 any manner of wast and from and after the decease of the said Sarah Lambert to the
27 use and beheese of the first son lawfully begotten or to be begotten on the
28 body of the said Mary [Sarah?] Lambert and of the heires males of the body of such
29 first sonne lawfully to be begotten and for default of such issue to the use and
30 beheese of the second third fourth fifth sixth and all and every other the sonne and
31 sonnes lawfully begotten or to be begotten on the body of the said Sarah
32 Lambert and of the heires males of the body and bodyes of all and every
33 such sonne and sonnes lawfully issuing severally and successively one
34 after another as they shall be in senority of age or priority of birth the
35 older and first borne of every such sonne and sonnes and the heires males
36 of his body issuing being alwayes preformed before the younger and the heires
37 males of their bodyes issuing and for default of such issue to the use and beheese
38 of all and every the daughter and daughters lawfully begotten or to be
39 begotten on the body of the said Sarah Lambert and of the heires of the
40 body and bodies of all and every such daughter and daughters severally
41 as Tennants in Com[m]on and for default of such issue to the use and beheese
42 of such person and persons and for such Estate and Estates as the said
43 Peter Blake shall by this my last will and Testament sealed and
44 published in the presence of three or more credible witnesses direct and
45 appoint and for want of such direction and appointment to the use and
46 behesse of my said Sister Sarah Lambert and the right heires forever
47 Item my will is in case my said Sister Sarah Lambert shall depart this
48 life without any issue male or Female of her body living at the time of
49 her decease Item I give and bequeath unto the Master Fellowes of Baliall
50 Colledge in the University of Oxon and their Successors forever or by what
51 other name or names they now are or hereafter may be called one annuity
52 or yearly rent of Eighty pounds of lawfull money of England free from
53 all taxes and payments whatsoever to the uses hereinafter mentioned
54 and upon trust and confidence that they the said Master and Fellowes of Baliall
55 Colledge and their Successors shall yearly forever pay the said Annuity
56 of eighty pounds in manner following (that is to say) fifteene pounds
57 p[er] time a peice unto the four Junior Fellowes for the time being of Baliall
58 Colledge foresaid as an augmentation to their fellowshipps and five
59 pounds p[er]Annum as an augmentation unto the four smallest apeice
60 Scholarships of Balliall Colledge aforesaid to be forever yearely paid
61 on the Feast of St Michael the Archagell the first payment thereof to
62 be made on the Feast day of St Michaell the Archangell which shall
63 first happen after the decease of my said sister she dying without
64 issue as aforesaid and my further will and meaning is that the said
65 eighty pounds p[er] Annum be forever given unto those fellowes and schollars
66 who are of Mr. John Baliall's foundation and that those of Mr. Peter
67 Blundells foundation have nothing to doe there with or have any benefit
68 thereby Item my will is in case my said Sister dye without any issue as
69 aforesaid then I give and bequeath unto the Vicar of Andover for the time
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71 being however one annuity or yearly rent of twenty pounds of
72 lawfull money of England free from all taxes and payments whatsoever as an
73 augmentation to the Vicarage of Andover aforesaid to be forever yearly
74 paid on the Fast day of St Michaell the Archangell the first payment
75 thereof to be made on the first Michaelmas day as shall next happen after
76 the decease of my said sister she dying without issue and aforesaid Item
77 my farther will and meaning is in case my said sister dye without
78 issue as aforesaid Item I give and bequeath unto the poore of Andover
79 aforesaid forever one Annuity or yearly rent of twenty pounds of
80 lawfull money of England free from all taxes and payments w[ha]tsoever
81 to be forever yearely received and paid by the Churchwardens and
82 overseers of the poore of Andover for the time being unto the most
83 ancient poore inhabitants of the said Parish of Andover who were of
84 not Alins from the said parish on the five and twentieth day of March
85 and on the nine and twentieth day of September com[m]only called Lady
86 day and Michaelmas day by equall portions the first payment thereof
87 to beginne on such of the said dayes as shall first and next happen
88 after the decease of my said sister she dying without issue as afores[ai]d
89 And I doe hereby declare my farther will is and I doe charge all my
90 Mannors Farmes Wills Messuages Lands Tenements hereditam[en]ts
91 and premisses whatsoever lying and being in the parish of Andover
92 aforesaid for payment of the said severall annuities or yearly
93 rents of eighty pounds twenty pounds and twenty pounds and my
94 will is that if at any time it shall happen the severall yearly sumes
95 of eighty pounds twenty pounds and twenty pounds or any part
96 thereof is behind or unpaid by the space of twenty dayes next after
97 any or either of the said dayes on which the same ought to be paid as
98 aforesaid being lawfully demanded that then it shall and may be
99 lawfull to and for the said Master and Fellowes and their Successors
100 the Vicar of Andover for the time being the Churchwardens and
101 Overseers of the poore of Andover for the time being upon any my said
102 Mannors Farmes Mills Messuages lands and premisses in Andover
103 or any part thereof to enter and distraine and the distress and distresses
104 there taken to leade drive carry away and impound and inpound
105 to keepe untill the said Annuities of Eighty pounds twenty pounds
106 and twenty pounds be fully satisfyed and paid and the arreares
107 thereof if any be Item I give unto my deare Mother Mrs. Elizabeth
108 Blake twenty pounds to be paid unto her within three months after
109 my decease Item I give unto Mr. Robert Yard of Kimpton my silver
110 tobacco box and twenty shillings to buy him a ring and I desire
111 that he may bury me Item I give unto Grace Cooke and all my
112 Servants that shall be living with me at my decease twenty shillings
113 a peice and unto Elizabeth Mrs. Tho: Westcombes maid if I dye there
114 and she living there at my decease twenty shillings Item I give unto
115 Mr. William Westcombe and Mr. Stephen Barton five pounds a peice to
116 be paid them within three months after my decease Item I give unto the
117 poore of Andover tenne pounds and unto the poor of Abbotts Anne five
118 pounds to be paid and distributed amongst them within one moneth
119 after my decease all the rest of my goods and chattles I give and
120 bequeath unto my said deare and loving sister Sarah Lambert
121 whome I make full and whole Executrix of this my last will and Testament
122 In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand Seale the
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123 day and yeare first above written Peter Blake Signed Sealed and
124 published the words to be forever yearly paid on the Feast of St Michaell the
125 Archangell being first interlined in the presence of Will: Westcombe Ste:
126 Barton John Greene
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