The will of James Blake of Speen, Berkshire was a must read given that I had looked at a will for William Blake of Speen from 1552: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/05/will-of-william-blake-yeoman-of-speen.html.
Whether or not this James Blake is a descendant of William Blake can not be determined from this will. William Blake had a son Anthony and brothers John and Richard.
A look at British History online for the Parish of Speen does not have any Blake entries. The Englefield family held Speen at the time of William Blake in the 1500s. With no mention of Blake and the knowledge that this Blake family also lived at Andover in some time period, I wonder if they have a similar descent to my line prior to Nicholas Blake who left his will in 1547 at Enham.
From the Spanswick one name study there is a marriage of James Blake to Elizabeth Spanswick 13 Dec 1733 at Speen. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/SpansCounty/Berkshire/Speen.html
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Apr 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1457/169
Testator: James Blake, Yeoman
Place: Speen, Berkshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 9 May 1805, probated 13 Mar 1807
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: James
[Margin]: Blake
1 This is the last Will
2 and Testament of me James Blake of Speen
3 in the County of Berks yeoman made this ninth
4 day of May in the year of Our Lord one
5 thousand eight hundred and five as follows (that
6 is to say) First I direct all my Just debts Funeral
7 and Testamentary charges and Expences to be paid and discharged
8 and after payment thereof and of every part
9 thereof and subject thereto I direct that my Estate and
10 and Effects of what nature soever be sold and
11 disposed of and converted into Money in such way
12 so my Executor herein after named shall in his
13 discretion think proper and the Money arising
14 and to be made by Sale thereof as also all my
15 Money in the Stocks or Funds and all other my
16 Monies and personal Estate whatsoever I give
17 and bequeath unto William Graham of Newbury
18 aforesaid Draper his Executors and Administrators
19 Upon Trust the said William Graham his Executors
20 or Administrators shall and do within six Calendar
21 Months next after my decease place out and
22 invest the same or any part thereof upon good
23 security or securities or continue the same or
24 any part thereof in and upon such Stocks Funds
25 or Securities as the same or any part thereof
26 may be invested in or upon at the time of
27 my decease as he in his discretion shall think
28 proper and pay and apply the Interest or
30 proceeds of the said Monies so to be placed
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31 out as aforesaid unto my beloved wife Ann
32 Blake and her assigns or permit and suffer
33 her to receive and take for the same for and
34 during the Term of her natural Life and from
35 and immediately after the decease of my said Wife
36 or as soon after as conveniently m ay be upon
37 Trust that he my said Trustee his Executors or
38 Administrators shall and do call in and pay
39 and divide all and singular the said Monies so to
40 be placed out as aforesaid and all Interest which
41 shall be then due thereon between and amongst my
42 daughter Jane Brown (the Wife of Bartholomew
43 Brown of Newbury aforesaid Pig Cutter whom I
44 had by a former Wife, my Son in Law George
45 Crawford of Grays Inn Lane London Lapidary and
46 Glass Cutter and my daughter Jane Blake) and all
47 and every other Child and Children I may have
48 by my present Wife in equal proportions share
49 and share alike But in case any one or more
50 of them the said Jane Brown George Crawford
51 and Ann Blake or any other Child or Children I
52 may have by my said Wife shall die before
53 his her or their share or shares shall become
54 payable then upon Trust to pay the share or
55 shares of him her or them so dying unto the
56 survivor or survivors of them And I do declare
57 that the Receipt of my said daughter Jane
58 Brown shall be a good discharge to my said
59 Trustee for her share without the concurrence
60 of her husband And I do hereby nominate
61 constitute and appoint the said William Graham
62 sole Executor of this my Will and I do hereby
63 declare that it shall Be lawful for my said Executor
64 and Trustee his Executors and Administrators
65 to deduct and retain to himself and themselves all
66 such costs charges and Expences as he or they
67 shall sustain or be put to in the Execution
68 of the Execution of the Trust of this my
69 my Will and that he or they shall not be
70 answerable or accountable for any more
71 Money than he or they shall actually receive
72 And I do hereby revoke all former and other
73 Wills by me at any time heretofore made and
74 do declare this to be my last Will and Testament
75 In Witness whereof I the said James Blake the
76 Testator have to this my last Will and
77 Testament contained in two Sheets of paper set
78 my hand and Seal to wit my hand at the bottom
79 of the preceding Sheet and my hand and Seal
80 to this Sheet the day and Year mentioned at
81 the beginning of the preceding The Name or Mark
82 of James Blake James Blake the testator The writing
83 contained
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84 contained in this and the preceding Sheet of
85 paper was signed sealed By the said James Blake
86 the Testator and by him published and declared
87 as and for his last Will and Testament in the
88 presence of us who in his presence and in the
89 presence of each other and at his request have
90 subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereof William
91 Woodward Jno Barfield
92 This Will was proved at London the
93 thirteenth day of March in the Year of Our
94 Lord one thousand Eight hundred and seven before
95 the Right Honourable Sir William Wynne Knight
96 Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of
97 the prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
98 constituted by the oath of William the sole executor
99 named in the said Will to whom administration
100 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels
101 and Credits of the deceased having been first sworn
102 by Commission duly to administer.
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