The present testator is Thomas Blake of Penton Mewsey. I obtained this will through the photoduplication program of Family Search and the demographics for the search are: Film# 186889, catalogue designation I-604, year of event 10 May 1597 (proven), and number on film is 7. I received all of this information from Charlou Dolan and in total she listed just over 100 films in her text copies that she sent to me.
Charlou has named this Thomas as a son of Robert Blake (brother to Nicholas Blake and son of Jone Blake who left her will in 1527). Thomas's father would then have died in 1542 (will probated) which would make Thomas at least 55 years of age. Thomas doesn’t name any grandchildren which troubles me with regard to his being 55 years of age and just one of his three daughters married. Plus he would appear to have been still working the farm with his son John and likely he was born before 1542. I am still working on the will of Robert in 1542 and it is in Latin! Robert does say that John and Thomas are his younger sons and the land at Penton was to go to John and Thomas equally after their mother died. Richard, however, is his youngest son. Charlou has placed Thomas as the third son but the will does place him after William (Robert's will). Who else could he be is perhaps the next thought and do I have a will for Agnes their mother. I am suspicious that Agnes is a second wife and these children (Thomas, John the younger and Richard) may be a younger family.
I do have a will for John Blake at Penton Mewsey in 1611 and another for John Blake at Penton Mewsey in 1619 so that Thomas could certainly have been quite elderly and his daughters simply did not marry. I did not find that in the 1500s grandchildren were always mentioned in a will. So I am tending to agree with Charlou that this is probably Thomas son of Robert Blake. But it would be nice to find more proof.
This will is interesting and Thomas names his daughters Elizabeth Crowch, Agnes Blake and Alice Blake and his son John Blake. He does not name his wife. The inventory is a good view of the possessions of a farmer in this time period.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6 Feb 2014
Source: Family Search, 186889-I-604-7-1597 or Hampshire Record Office, 1597A-011
Testator: Thomas Blake,
Place: Penton Mewsey, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 22 Apr 1597, probated 10 May 1597
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of god Amen The xxij th day of April in the xxxix th yeare of the raigne of o[u[ most gracious and sov[er]aigne
2 Lady Queene Elizabeth I Thomas Blake of Penton
3 mewsy in the County of South[ampton] and diocese of Wintonj be
4 ing sicke in body but of good memory do make and ordeyne
5 this my last will and Testament all other heretofore made
6 disannulled first I commend my self to gods mercy therow
7 Christ Jesus and my body to Christian burial It[e]m I give and
8 bequeath to Elizabeth Crowch my daughter forty shillings
9 It[e]m to Agnes my daughter forty shillings It[em] to Alice
10 my daughter forty shillings It[e]m to my p[ar]ish church xij d
11 It[e]m to the pore of my p[ar]ish xij d All the rest of my goods
12 moveables and unmoveable cattle and chattels whatsoever
13 I give and bequeath unto John Blake my sonne whome
14 I make sole executor of this my last will and Testament
15 witnesses to this will: John Dobson se[nio]r John Lancaster
16 and John Blake the elder
17 John Blake
18 Probatum fuit testam[entu]m pres[ens]
19 in cor[am] suma per m___
20 Nichaeles Reniges Archin[atus]
21 winton decimo die maij
22 1597 com[m]issaq[u]e fuit admin[istrati]o
23 omnium bonor[um] etc Johann[is]
24 Blake filio et executori
25 soli nominat etc de bene etc
26 iurat p comisse salvo
27 iure ci___scing
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28 A true Inventarie of all the goodes and chattels
29 of Thomas Blake of Penyton Mewsy in the
30 County of South[ampton] deceased the sixe and
31 twenty day of April in the yeare of o[u]r lord
32 Christ 1597 taken and equally prised by the
33 parties hereunder named of the said Penton
34 the first day of May then next ensewing
35 Imprimis his apparell xxii s
36 It[e]m his bedding with thappurtenances and painted clothes about his bed chamber xl s
37 It[e]m in his bedchamber ij coffers j old cubbard and j powdring tubb vij s iiij d
38 It[e]m in his hall j plank table j old cubbard j forme and ij chayres w[i]th a shelf xiij s iiij d
39 It[e]m in his kitchen ij little old brasse pottes iij s iiij d
40 It[e]m his pewter vessel is worth vi s viij d
41 It[e]m his pan brasse kettle brasse and j small skillit of brasse xx s
43 It[e]m his treene dishes and trenchers iij d
44 It[e]m his treene vessel of tubbes buckets barrels w[i]th such like viij s vj d
45 It[e]m j leather bottles ij s
46 It[e]m in the loft ov[er] his bed chamber old yron j up standard and about a bushel of peacevijs
47 It[e]m in the upper househay and I cowe racke x s ij d
48 It[e]m in wod and tymber xx s
49 It[e]m ij kyne and 1 bullocke v l vj s viij d
50 It[e]m his plowe and cart xxx s
51 It[e]m in woll xx s
52 It[e]m corne upon the ground viij l
53 It[e]m j score of sheepe vij l vj s
54 It[e]m iiij bushels of wheat wynowed xxvj s viij d
55 It[e]m iij bushels of barly wynowed xij s
56 It[e]m wheat unthreshed worth xxvj s viij d
57 It[e]m vatches unthreshed xiiij s iiij d
58 It[e]m two old sackes xvj d
59 It[e]m painted clothes in the hall xij d
60 It[e]m sheepe in tamages keeping worth iij l xv s
61 It[e]m Nicholas noyce oweth him about xiij s iiij d
62 Summe total xxxix l xiij s v d
63 prised John Lancaster and John Blake the elder
64 John Blake
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