Richard Blake is the testator and he is an Innholder at Chipping Sodbury. He mentions his son Thomas and his wife Mary in his will below.
The portbury-hundred website (http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm) lists Richard as #98, born in 1668 and died in Chipping Sodbury 9 Apr 1724 at the age of 56 years. Richard married to Mary is listed as having three children: Joseph (died 18 May 1715 in Chipping Sodbury, Samuel (born 1692 and died in 1715 at Chipping Sodbury) and Richard born in 1700 and there is further information on Richard. This Richard is said to be a son of Ambrose Blake who was known to be born at Pynhills (Wiltshire) around 1620. Richard is said to have two brothers Henry and Ambrose both of whom have descendancies in the chart above. The great grandson of Richard was said to be the Richard who married Anne Augustine Harwood, daughter of Rev Charles Harwood, Dean of Chichester. There is some information on this family already blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/search/label/Harwood
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/search/label/Harward
Earlier I did conclude that this line as written in the portbury-hundred website seems to be a reasonable lineage but one is left to wonder why did Richard not mention his son Richard in his will below. A couple of possibilities include he is a well established merchant in Bristol already, he has received his portion to set him up as a merchant or he has inherited from another relative and is passed by in this will. Presumably Thomas will remain with the Inn in Chipping Sodbury which his mother is inheriting. No will is listed for this Thomas.
There are other Blake wills at Chipping Sodbury. However, I can not clearly fit them into this particular lineage.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Oct 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Richard Blake, Inholder
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Apr 1724; probated 29 Apr 1724
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of God Amen I Richard Blake
2 of Chipping Sodbury in the County of Glouc Inholder
3 being Sick in body but of sound and disposing mind
4 and memory do make my last will and Testament
5 in manner and Form following
6 Imp[rim]is I will that my debts and funeral Expences shall
7 be paid by my Executrix hereinafter named
8 Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Thomas
9 Blake the sum of five pounds
10 Item all the rest and residue of my Goods and Chattles
11 of what kind soever I give and bequeath unto my dearly
12 beloved wife Mary whom I do hereby constitute and
13 appoint sole and only Executrix of this my last Will and
14 Testament And lastly I do hereby revoke recall and
15 make utterly null and void all and every Former and
16 other will Legacy bequest or Executor by me at any
17 time heretofore made given appointed or named
18 ratifying and confirming this and no other to be
19 my last Will and Testam[en]t In Testament whereof I have
20 hereunto set my hand and Seal this Sixteenth day of
21 April Anno d[omi]ni 1724
22 The Mark of
23 Rich
24 Richard Blake
25 Signed Sealed published pronounced
26 and declared by the above named
27 Richard Blake as his last Will
28 and Testament in the presence of us
29 who set our hands in the pre[se]nce
30 of the Testator
31 Georg Hardwicke
32 Jno Shellard
33 Joseph Hughes
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