The testator Samuel Blake does not appear to have a wife; does not mention a widow. His nephew is Samuel Grace and his nieces are Mary, Ann, Elizabeth and Martha Grace. He does not mention his sister in this will.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Jan 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/595
Name of testator: T[esta]m[ent] Samuelis Blake
Place: Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated 22 Jun 1723, probated 7 Jan 1724
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[In margin] Samuelis Blake
1 Of being appointed for
2 men once to dye I Samuel Blake of Aldenham in the County
3 of Hertford Wheelwright being Sick and weak but by the blessing of God
4 of a perfect mind and memory do make publish and declare this my last
5 will and Testament (Utterly revoking all other Wills by me formerly
6 made) First I commit and commend my Soul into the hands of
7 Allmighty God my Creator hoping through the merits of Jesus
8 Christ my Redeemer to be made partaker of Everlasting life
9 my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion
10 of my Executor and Executrix hereafter named and as
11 touching Such Temporal Estate as the Lord hath in his
12 merry blessed me with all I dispose thereof as followeth Imprimis
13 I give and devise all those my two Cottages or Tenements with
14 all houses Orchards and appurtenances to the Same belonging
15 Situate near the Town of Idleshey in the Said Parish of
16 Aldenham in the Several Occupations of Francis Plater and
17 Michael Limptebottom unto my Nephew Samuel Grace his
18 heirs and assignes for ever Subject nevertheless to and chargeable
19 with the payment of all and every the Legacies hereafter by this
20 my will bequeathed Item I give and bequeath unto my three
21 Neices Mary Grace, Ann Grace and Elizabeth Grace all Sisters
22 of my Said Nephew Samuel Grace ……
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23 and to each and every of them the summe of Six pounds of lawfull
24 money of Great Britain to be paid to them respectively by my
25 said Nephew Samuel Grace his heirs and assignes within
26 twelve Calender months next after my decease out of my Said
27 two Cottages Item I give to my Neice Martha Grace one other of the sisters
28 of my said Nephew Samuel Grace the Summe of Forty Shillings
29 of like lawfull money to be paid her by my Said Nephew Samuel
30 Grace within twelve Calender months next after my decease out
31 of my two Cottages aforesaid also my Further mind is that in
32 case my Said Nephew his Heirs or Assignes refuse to neglect
33 to pay the Said Respective Legacies at the time before limited for
34 payment thereof as aforesaid that then it shall be lawfull to
35 and for my Said Neices respectively and their Respective Executors
36 Administrators and Assignes to enter and come into the Said
37 Cottages and Tenements and keep possession thereof and to have
38 take and Receive the rents Issues and profits thereof until they
39 Shall be fully Satisfied and paid their Said respective Legacies
40 with all Charges that they or any of them Shall be put to by
41 reason of such Entry So to be made as aforesaid all the rest of my
42 personal Estate moneys stock Leases Goods and Chattells whatsoever
43 after my debts are paid and funeral Expences discharged I give to my
44 Said Nephew Samuel Grace and to my Said Neices Mary Anne
45 Elizabeth and Martha to be equally divided between them Share and
46 Share alike and lastly I do hereby Nominate make and Constitute
47 my Said Nephew Samuel Grace and my said Neice Anne the Joint
48 Executor and Executrix of this my last will and Testament in
49 Witness whereof I the Said Samuel Blake to this my last will and
50 Testament have Set my hand and Seal the two and twentieth day of
51 June Anno domini 1723 Annoqz Regni Domini nostri Georgij
52 Dei Gratia Magni Britten Francis et hibernia Regis etc now
53 Samuel Blake Signed Sealed published and declared by the Said
54 Samuel Blake to be his last Will and Testament in the Sight and
55 presence of us whose names are hereunto Subscribed as Witnesses
56 at the request and in the Sight and presence of the Testator J
57 Nicoll the marke of Daniel Larken the marke of Jone Batman
58 Probatum fuit huiusmodi Testamentum apud London
59 Septimo die mensis Januarij Anno domini millesimo Septingentesimo
60 Vicesimo tertio coram Venerabili Viro Exton Sayer Legum doctore Surrogato
61 Venerabilis et egregio viro Johannis Betteworth Legum doctoris Curiae
62 prerogative Cantuariensis Magistro Custodis sive Commissario
63 Legitimo Constituto Juramentis Samuelis Grace et Anna Grace sobrinos
64 Nepotis et Neptis excratio dicti defuncti et executorium in dicto
65 Testamento nominat quibus Commissa fuit Administratio omnium
66 et Singulorum bonorum jurium et creditorium dicti defuncti de
67 bene et fideliter Administrando eadem ad sancta dei Evangelia
68 Jurat Exam[r]
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