Arthur Blake, the testator, from the website
http://edpopehistory.co.uk/entries/blake-arthur/1794-07-20-000000
Arthur Blake born about 1745 youngest son of Andrew Blake of St Kitts by Marcella French of Ireland. His elder brother Patrick (History of Parliament 1742-1784) was MP for Sudbury and created a baronet in 1772, died 1.7.1784. Arthur Blake Esq 7.5.1763 Capt 86th regt from Lt 17th regt. / 21.1.1768 Capt Lt 3rd dragoons./ 6.12.1774 Arthur Blake Esq formerly of Conduit St but late of Quevilly Normandy, fugitive, surrendered to Kings Bench Prison / 11.2.1775 at St Geo Martyr Southwark (the parish of Kings Bench) AB Esq married Anne Susannah Garland. Their son Arthur Garland Blake bapt 6.9.1779 St Marylebone, son Edward Parker Blake bapt 1.9.1782 there (9.8.1782 newspaper announcement of birth at AB's house Holles St, Cavendish Sq) / Sun Fire Insurance 1777 Arthur Blake Esq nr Opera House Haymarket / 1779 Arthur Blake gent Charlinch Somerset / 1781 Arthur Blake Esq Boddington Surrey / 11.1.1783 Capt Arthur Blake from half pay of 100th regt to Capt in Major Symes corps of foot 28.1.1783 exchanges / 1787 memoirs of miss Ann Sheldon vol 3 p60 Mr Arthur and Mr Kit Blake / 12.2.1789 Arthur Blake of Langham offered to stand for Sudbury / 27.5.1790 bandeleer taken from Bastille by person who arrested De Launay presented to Leverian museum by Arthur Blake / 21.11.1792 contributed to France fund of Socy for Const Info / 1.6.1793 Leeward Is to Falmouth 40 days passenger & servant / 24.1.1794 proposed SCI member / 2.5.1794 steward at SCI dinner / 14.6.1794 ordered to Privy Council / 23.6.1794 letter to Morning Chronicle from Devonshire St, Portland Place / 16.10.1794 on witness list treason trials / 4.2.1795 steward of Friends of Freedom dinner / 2.4.1795 subscr 10gns to state trials defence fund / 14.4.1796 portrait of Capt Arthur Blake by Sir Joshua Reynolds for sale / 23.5.1796 offered to stand for Sudbury again / 28.6.1796 steward for Tooke's Westminster campaign dinner / 5.10.1796 steward of Friends of Freedom dinner / 18.3.1797 steward of Friends of Parliamentary Reform dinner / 27.6.1798 W Barber Collingwood's Chambers, Grays inn, ad for creditors of Arthur Blake / 28.1.1802 Arthur Blake's neat house in Mortimer St purchased / 6.12.1806 lately at his lodgings in Bath aged 61 Arthur Blake died / 1808 PCC will of Arthur Blake of Pemblain, Glamorgan / 1815 PCC will of Arthur Garland Blake (Madras civil servant from 1798)
As mentioned in Anne Susannah Blake’s transcription yesterday, Arthur is the 10th great grandson of Richard Caddell alias Blake of Galway, Ireland.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1475
Name of testator: Arthur Blake, Esquire
Place: Pemblain, Glamorganshire, Wales
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 2 Aug 1797, probated 8 Mar 1808
[In margin] Anne Susannah Blake 14
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Arthur Blake late of Beddington in the County
3 of Surrey but now of Pemblain in the County of
4 Glamorganshire do make declare publish and
5 announce this Instrument or writing to be my
6 last Will and Testament and I First and hope
7 it will without Quibble or for the want of any
8 particular Word or Words or manner of setting forth
9 by any particular expression or Expressions (according with
10 Law as it is termed) be viewed as such my
11 last desire request bequest and Testament that
12 is to say I Arthur Blake trust in these last
13 moments as I have ever done through the
14 vicissitudes of a most troublesome life that my
15 Creator will accept my Spirit when it shall
16 have departed this vile body notwithstanding
17 the many Transgressions It has been guilty of
18 and this the most hope and expect because
19 I have never doubted or questioned the Existence
20 of a Supreme Being but on the Contrary Always
21 trusted in him as my greatest Saviour and help
22 altho my life has been chequered with many
23 ungrateful Circumstances and Events and I do now
24 most solemnly I declare that my principal comfort
25 and support has ever been as it now is in the
26 benevolence of my Creator and in the faith of our
27 Lord Jesus Christ in which faith I was brought
28 up and educated and in which faith I die all
29 my worldly property of what nature or kind
30 soever if any remains unsettled after my just
31 debts are paid I give bequeath and devise
32 unto my two dearly well beloved children and
33 Sons Arthur Garland Blake and Edward
34 Parker Blake to be equally divided between them
35 when they arrive at the age of twenty one
36 years or to the Survivor if one should die and in
37 case both should die before the attainment
38 of twenty one years then I bequeath the same
39 as above mentioned to my most unfortunate
40 Wife Anne Susannah Blake as the heir of
41 that property (if any should remain unsettled)
42 came from her I appoint as Guardians to
43 my dear Children during their minority
44 Nathaniel Garland of Epson in the County of
45 Surrey Esquire Wm Houghton of Conduit Street
46 Hanover Square Esquire and their mother Anne
47 Susannah Blake and I hereby appoint the
48 aforesaid Anne Susannah Blake sole Executrix
49 to this my last Will and Testament written with
50 my own hand and sealed with my own Seal this second day of August in
51 the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
52 and ninety seven as Witness my hand Arthur
53 Blake Signed sealed published and declared
54 by the Testator as his last Will and Testament
55 in the presence of us who have hereunto
56 subscribed our names this seventeenth day of
57 Octr in the yer of our Lord one thousand seven
58 hundred and ninety seven John Stevens John
59 Macknamara John Edward
60 This Will was proved at London on the
61 eighth day of March in the Year of our Lord one
62 thousand eight hundred and eight before the
63 Worshipful Charles Coote Doctor of Laws Surrogate
64 of the Right Honorable Sir William Wynne
65 Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
66 Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
67 lawfully constructed by the Oath of Anne Susannah
68 Blake Widow the Relict of the deceased the sole
69 Executrix named in the Said Will to whom Admon
70 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels
71 and Credits of the Said deceased having been first
72 sworn duly to administer.
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