This, the will of John Blake, Cleric gives as his location Fairford, Gloucestershire but in the Diocese of Worcester. It isn’t particularly close to any known Blake area. From the Blake Pedigree Chart held at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office there is a John Blake Lord Abbot of Cirencester in County Gloucestershire. The time frame would be similar to this John. He does not, however, mention any family although his brother William would be living in Lacock in this time period. Feyreford is nine miles east of Cirencester. This is after the dissolution of the monasteries during the Reign of Henry VIII which continued through the Reign of Edward VI. The fate of the Lord Abbot of Cirencester is unknown and could he have moved on to Feyreford where there was a house that still remained? There was a large church there dedicated to Saint Mary.
I still have about 70 wills from the Gloucestershire Record Office and included in that group are more wills from this early time period.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/37/293
Testator: John Blake, Clerk
Place: Feyreford, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Jan 1552, probated 4 Apr 1555
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Joh[an]n Blake clerc
1 In dei nomine Amen seconde die Januarij Anno d[omi]ni Mell[is]imo quinqentisimo quinquagesimo
2 secondo et Anno Regni d[omi]ni uird Edwardi Sexti dei gracia Anglie Franciae et Hibernie Rexs fidei
3 defensores et in terra Ecclesia[e] Anglicane et Hibernice supremum capits Sexto I Joh[an]n Blake of
4 Feyreford in the dioc[ese] of Wurcestor Clerke being sicke in bodye and hole of mynd and in parfict
5 Remembrannce do make and ordeyne this my last will and testament in maner and forme folowinge
6 First I bequeathe my soule to th[e ]handes of Almyghtie god my Savior and Redemer whiche by the power
7 of his most precious blod have delyv[er]ed me from all my synnes and reconciled me unto god the father
8 by the merits of his deathe and my bodye to be buried wher yt shall please myne Executours John Hill and
9 John Dawbeney Jun[jior] my servantes and this to paye all my debts whiche I do owe And also to parforme
10 and paye all my legacies as hereafter folowith Fyrst I bequeathe and give to the poore mens boxe
11 In FeyreFord iijs viij d Item I bequeathe to John Wall my chapelyn Sixe pounds in money and A gowne
12 Item I give to Thomas Liggen gentleman xl s and his lyverie Item I give to Thomas Clarke my s[er]vant
13 Twenty shillings in money and his lyverie Item to Richard Merynge xxxv s iiij d and his lyverye Item
14 to Willyam Carter xxxiiij s and his lyv[er]ye Item to Roger Wyatt xxvj s vij d and his lyv[er]ye Item to
15 Richard Hall xxvj s viij d and his lyverie Item to John Faregose xxxs and his Lyverye Item to
16 Reynold Hooles xxxs and his lyverie Item to Richard Woodward xxs and his Lyverie Item to
17 Margery Levcy xxv s and one petycote Item to Faith Bryger xxiij s and one petycote Item to
18 Katheryn Ewen xxiij s and one peticote All this I give ev[er]y of them in full payment of their wages
19 and lyvereys All the rest of my goodes and cattalls moveable and unmoveable not given nor
20 bequeathed after my debts and Legacies be fully contentyd and paide and my funeral done I give
21 and bequeathe unto John Hill and John Dawbeney Jun[ior] above said my s[er]vantes whom I make and
22 ordeyne my sole Executors And further I make Overseers of this my last Will and testament Sir
23 Anthony Kyngston knight Sir Walter Buckeler knight and John George gent to the intent that they
24 shall see all my debts and Legacies abovesaid paide and fulfilled and myne Executors quyatly to
25 Incyon all the rest of my goodes above bequeathed and geven to them And they and ev[er]y of them myne
26 Overseers abovesaid to have for their Labors and paynes in the premises fower marks apece in money
27 to be paid to them by myne Executors Thes p[er]sons insigng baring wytnes of this my last will
28 Mathew Glame they being Curate Richard Stychall Richard More Thomas Smieth
29 Willyam Grene By me John Blake prest
30 Probatum fuit testum apud London coram et Capitlo Ecclie Metrovo xxi Cant
31 Sei Archie pali ibin Jain Vacan quarto die mensis Aprilis Anno domini Millesimo quingentisimo quinqua
32 gesimo quinto Juramento Johis Dawbeney Executor in humoi testament noiat ac approbatum etc
33 insumatum etc comissa fuit adminstraro omi bonor etc defuncti preset etc de bene et fideler
34 administrand ead Acde pleno Juro etc Exhibend Ao sumta dei Singelia Jurate Johanne Hill
35 Executore etiam in humoi testament moiate demortico
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