Nicholas Blake is the testator and he is known to me because he was mentioned in his kinsman’s will which was blogged earlier also of Wotton Rivers:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-nicholas-blake-yeoman-of.html
this was a will which was collected at Kew in 2012 because it was one of the oldest wills in Wiltshire having been probated in 1641.
Sixteen years later and the first will identifies this Nicholas Blake and his son Nicholas Blake so Nicholas Blake junior in the will is at least seventeen years of age since the will was written 31 Oct 1640.
The Nicholas Blake whose will was probated in 1641 is the Uncle of the present testator. So it is also known that the present testator has an Uncle Stephen as identified in the earlier will.
The present testator identifies his wife as Mary and his children as Nicholas, Mary, Elizabeth, Edward, Gertrude, Jane, and Thomas. The Stagg family is mentioned in both wills although not related to the testators.
Wootton Rivers is 4 miles south of Marlborough. In the area is Hungerford, Pewsey, Urchfont and the Collingborne villages. Interesting as it is not that far from Andover.
The Nicholas whose will was probated in 1641 is older as he mentions the son of his brother Stephen Edmond and that Edmond has sons Edmond and Stephen. Noting that the first testator asked to be buried at Milton Lilbourne which is seven miles south of Marlborough or nearly 2 miles from Wotton Rivers and 3 miles from Burbage. Definitely this family grouping needs to be examined with respect to the Blake family at Burbage.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 21 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/265/708
Testator: Nicholas Blake, Yeoman
Place: Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1656/57, probated 21 Jul 1657
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Nicholas Blake
1 In the name of God Amen
2 I Nicholas Blake the Elder of Wotton Rivers in the County of
3 Wilts yeoman sicke of body but of a good sound p[er]fect and disposing
4 memory (Thankes be to God) doe make and ordeyne this my last
5 will and Testament in writeing The second day of March in the yeare
6 of our Lord God One Thousand six hundred fifty and Six in manner
7 and forme following first I bequeath my soule into the hands of my
8 most gracious and mercifull God who created it hopeing that by and
9 through the merits of his Sonne my blissed Saviour and Redeemer to
10 inharite eternall life and for my Worldly Goods and Estate which
11 my gracious God out of his great mercy towards mee hath beene pleased
12 to bestowe upon mee I give and devise of the same in manner and forme
13 following first I give and bequeath unto my six younger Children
14 namely Mary Blake, Elizabeth Blake, Edward Blake, Gertrude Blake,
15 Jane Blake, and Thomas Blake, The somme of Threescore, and Ten pounds
16 apiece to be paid unto them according to their Seniority beginning with the
17 eldest first as soon as the same can be raised in such manner as by this
18 my Will as appointed directed and declared and for the better and more
19 sure raising of the portions for the provision and future lyvelyhood of
20 my said younger Children and in consederation thereof I give and devise
21 unto my beloved brother in Lawes and friends George Stagg of
22 Hiushe in the said County of Wilts yeoman John Chandler of
23 Collingborne Brunton in the said County yeoman and John
24 Barthelmew of the same yeoman theire Executors, Administrators, and
25 Assignes and to the Survivor and Survivors of them All my Lands
26 Tenements with the appurtenances situate lyeing and beinge in
27 Collingborne Brunton aforesaid now in the possession of the said John
28 Bartholmew, Jeffery Pike, Elizabeth Arnold widow, and Joane
29 Mundy widow, and alsoe acquit rent of Twenty shillings from Francis
30 Andrewes for his farme in Collingborne Brunton aforesaid, for
31 the Terme of one and fourty yeares to recommence ymidiatily from
32 and after my decease, to the intent and purpose and upon special
33 trust and confidence, that they the said George Slagg, John Chandler,
34 and John Bartholmew, and the Survivors, and Survivor of them
35 and theire Executors and Assignes shall out of the rents and profits
36 of the said Lands both in possession, and reversion, or by sale thereof
37 or any part thereof as to my said friends and Trustees shall seeme
38 most fit, and convenient satisfy, and pay the said Legacies hereby
39 given unto my said younger children in manner aforesaid But
40 my will, and meaning is, That if eldest sonne, and heire
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41 Nicholas Blake shall within two yeares next after my decease
42 eyther satisfy and pay unto my said younger Children his brothers and sisters
43 theire said severall Legacies hereby given or shall otherwise give sure good and
44 sufficient Security unto my said Trustees, and Overseers for payment thereof
45 within two yeares after my decease yf they shall lyve and approve of
46 That then, and from thenceforth the said Terme and bequest of my said
47 Lands of one and fourty years to cease determine and be void but yf default
48 thereof to remayne and continue in force And whereas Nicholas Blake
49 my Uncle, theretofore of Wootton Rivers aforesaid yeoman did by Will
50 give unto my said sonne Nicholas Blake the summe of fourty pounds which
51 I have since satisfied by purchasing and putting in of his life unto a
52 copyhold Tenement in the possession of my Aunt Elizabeth Blake
53 in the Parish of Wootton Rivers aforesaid My will, and meaneinge
54 is that if my said sonne Nicholas Blake when he shall attaine ys
55 age of one and Twenty yeares shall refuse to give a sufficient release
56 of the said Legacy, and of the interest due for the same unto my Exec[utri]x
57 hereinnamed That then my said Overseers shall hold and convey my
58 said Lands hereby to them devised until they can or shall raise the
59 same out of the rents and profits of the said Lands after the said Legacies
60 raised and payed as aforesaid, and my will and meaning is that if any
61 or eyther of my said younger child or children shall happen to dye
62 before the payment of share or eyther of theire s[ai]d Legacy or Legacies
63 that then the Legacy or Legacies of such Child or Children soe dyeing
64 shall come remain and be paid unto the Survivors of them equally to
65 be devided betweene them And my will, and meanenge alsoe is that if my
66 said sonne Nicholas Blake shall happen to dye without issue before
67 the payment of the said Legacy unto my said sonne Edward or securing
68 of the said Legacies as aforesaid that then this Legacy given unto
69 my said sonne Edward Blake shall come remayne and be paide unto
70 all or each of my said younger Children as shall be then living
71 equally to be devided betweene them And if both my said sonnes Nicholas
72 and Edward Blake shall dye without issue before the payment of the
73 s[ai]d Legacy hereby geven to my sonne Thomas Blake that then ye said
74 Legacy soe given unto him shall bee in lyke manner equally devided
75 by and between such of my said younger children as shall be then living
76 And whereas I have by deed stated ye sixteenth day of October In
77 the yeare of our Lord One thousand Six hundred fifty and five granted part of my
78 said Lands to my beloved Aunt Elizabeth Blake for foure yeares with intent
79 onely to secure her quiet incognisent of her Coppyhold Lands in Wotton afores[ai]d
80 dureing her life which she lately surrendrerd I doe hereby humbly pray and
81 intreate my said Aunt that as she renders the need of my said poor younger
82 Children that she will not by means thereof without just cause given her
83 impede or hinder or permit or suffer eyther of my said sonnes who shall
84 be my heire by rotor thereof to impede or hinder my said Trustees in
85 raising of the said portions or provisions of my younger Children And
86 lastly I make conjecture and ordayne Mary Blake my beloved wife sole
87 Executrix of this my last will and Testament and the said George Stagg
88 John Chandler and John Bartholmew Overseers desiring they took
89 aydinge and assisting unto my said Executrix in the execution, and
90 p[er]formance of this my will and for their care and paines to be taken there
91 in I geve and bequeath unto them five shillings a piece In Witness
92 whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale The day and yeare
93 before mentioned Nicholas Blake Sealed Signed, and published
94 in the p[re[sence of Char: Kenway, the marke of Elizabeth Blake,
95 the marke of William Motterynae
96 This will was proved at London The Twenty first day of July, one
97 Thousand six hundred fifty seaven before the Judges for probate of
98 Wills and writings Administrations lawfully authorized by the oath of
99 Mary Blake the relict and sole Executrix named in the said will To
100 whom administration of all and Singular the goods, Chattells and
101 credits of the deceased was grantted she being first by Commission
102 sworn truly to Administer the same
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