Andrew Blake is the testator and this is the first of fifteen Blake wills from Cornwall. There was a Blake family at St Breock and there are a number of documents in the National Archives concerning leases held by them at St Breock. Thomas son of Thomas Blake is mentioned 26 Dec 1691 as is Henry Blake son of Peter Blake, yeoman same lease 1691. Again in 1714 there was a lease for 99 years on the life of Peter Blake son of Henry Blake and secondly on the death of Thomas Blake son of Thomas Blake, yeoman. in 1663 there is mention of Thomas Blake, son of Reginald Blake, yeoman, deceased. Mention of Thomas Blake as appointed an attorney to deliver seisin. In 1612 Peter Blake yeoman and Mary his wife with a lease for 99 years (Breage parish). In 1630, Peter Blake of Breock, clerk and this is a lease in reversion for 99 years on the life of Richard Blake who was the son of Peter Blake of Breock, clerk (Peter's wife was Mary). In 1649 there is mention of an Andrew Blake of Ewe, yeoman and he appears to be related to John son of John Blake of Marhamchurch (wife is Elizabeth). These documents are all in the Cornwall Record Office and deal with the Arundell papers. Of interest St Ewe is just 16 miles south of St Breock.
Was Andrew part of this family? Impossible to tell at the moment.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 May 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/413/63
Testator: Andrew Blake, Cooper
Place: St Breock, Cornwall, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 14 Dec 1691, probated 11 Jan 1693
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent]
[Margin]: Andrew
[Margin]: Blake
1 Know All Men by these
2 presents that I Andrew Blake of the parish of St Brake in
3 the County of Cornwall Cooper have and by these presents doe make
4 Ordaine and Constitute Sarah Lawford of St Olaves Southwarke
5 in the county of Surrey Spinster my true and Lawfull Attorney
6 Irrevocable for me and in my name and for my Use To aske demand
7 and Receive of and from the Right honorable the Treasurer or
8 Paymaster of theire Majesties Navie and Commissioners for
9 prize money and whome else it may Concerne As well All such
10 Wages and pay Bounty money prize money and all other summe
11 and summes of money whatsoever as now is and which hereafter
12 shall or may be due or payable unto me pursuant to their Majesties
13 Gratious declaration of the Twenty third of May One Thousand
14 Six hundred Eighty nine And alsoe all such pentions Sallaries
15 Smart Money and all other moneys and things whatsoever which
16 now and at any time hereafter is and shall be due to me for my
17 owne Service or otherwise in any of their Majesties Shipps Friggotts
18 or Vessells or any Merchants Shipp or Shipps As alsoe to demand
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19 receover and receive of all other person and persons whatsoever
20 whome it doth or may Concerne All and singuler such other
21 summe and summes of money goods wares Effects wages debts dues
22 Claimes and demands whatsoever which now and hereafter is or
23 shall be due and payable unto me either by Bond Bill booke Accompt
24 or otherwise howsoever And moreover in my name and for my
25 proper use to demise and Lett by Lease in Writing or otherwise All
26 or any of my Messuages Lands or Tenements to such person or
27 persons and for such Terme of yeares Conditions and Reservations
28 as my said Attorney or her Councill shall thinke fitt and convenient
30 giveing and hereby granting unto my said Attorney my full and
31 whole power in the premisses and to Recover and receive all and
32 singular the summe and summes of money Matters and things
33 aforesaid and upon none payment thereof or any part thereof
34 All such person and persons whome it may concerne and where
35 need shall require their Executors Administrators and goods to
36 sue Arrest Attach Seize Imprison prosecute and Continue and
37 to Compound and agree and out of prison to release and discharge
38 And upon receipt of the said premisses or any part thereof Ac-
39 quittances Releases or any other discharge and upon receipt of
40 the said premisses or any part thereof Acquittances Releases or
41 any other discharges for me and in my name to make Seale and
42 deliver and our Attorney or more to substitute and att pleasure
43 to revoke And generally to Act and doe all other Acts matters
44 and things whatsoever needfull and necessary to be done in and
45 Touching the premisses as fully and effectually as I ought or could
46 doe if I were personally present Ratifyeing and Allowing for
47 firme and valid and Irrevocable all and whatsoever my said
48 Attorney shall Lawfully doe or cause to bee done in or touching
49 the premisses by virtue of these presents And I the said Andrew
50 Blake considering the Incertainety of this Transitory life doe
51 make and declare these presents to containe my last Will and
52 Testament That is to say All such wages summe and summes
53 of money Lands Tenements goods Chattells and Estate whatsoever
54 wherewith att the time of my decease I shall be possessed or
55 Invested or which shall then belong or of Right Appertaine unto
56 me I doe give devise and bequeath unto my said Loveing friend
57 Sarah Lawford And I doe hereby Nominate and Appointe
58 her my Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament And
59 doe Revoke all former Wills and deeds of guift by me at any time
60 heretofore made and doe ordaine these presents to stand and bee
61 for and as my onely last Will and Testament In witnesse whereof
62 I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale the fourteenth day of
63 December Anno domini One thousand six hundred ninety One
64 And in the third yeare of the Reigne of King William and queen
65 Mary Andrew Blake Signed Sealed published and declared in
66 the presence of Joseph Jackeman William Newbery Scr.
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