There are too many Samuel Blake baptisms to even suggest a possible person. The same is true for his executrix Elizabeth Lowen. One of the witnesses is named Samuell Rolf which is interesting as one Rolf family at Andover married into the Blake family. However I was not able to particularly relate this Samuell Rolf to that family.
HMS Boyne was an 80 gun Royal Navy second rate ship of the line launched in 1692. This ship was under the command of Captain Dursley when she helped take Gibraltar in 1704.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 3 Oct 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/434
Name of testator: Samuel Blake, Mariner
Place: belonging to his Majesties ship the Boyne
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 2 Nov 1696, probated 12 Nov 1697
[In margin]: Tm Samuelis Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 this second day of November Anno domini 1696 I Samuell Blake mariner
3 belonging to his Majesties ship the Boyne being sick and weake in body
4 but of perfect mind and memory doe make and declare these presents to containe
5 my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say First I bequeath my Soule to God
6 and my Body to the Earth Item all such wages sume and summes of money
7 goods Chattels and Estate whatsoever wherewith att the time of my decease
8 I shall be the possessed or which shall then belong or of right appertaine
9 unto me my debts and funeral Expences being first paid I doe give
10 devise and bequeath unto Elizabeth Lowen of Portsmouth in the
11 County of Southton and I doe hereby nominate and appoint the said
12 Elizabeth Executrix of this my will and doe revoke all other wills by me
13 formerly made In Wittness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and
11 Seale the said second day of November Anno domini 1696 being the day
15 and yeare first above written Samuel Blake Signed sealed published
16 and declared in the presence of us John Smith Samuell Rolf Jno Hughs
17 John Sleensow
18 Probatum fuit huiusmodi Testamentum apud London
19 Coram venti et Egregi viro domini Richardo Raines Militis legum
20 doctore Curiae Prerogative Cantuariensis Magistri Custodis siue
21 Commissario legitime Constituto duodecimo die Mensis Novembris
22 Anno domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Nonagenio Sexto Juramento Elizabetha
23 Lewen Executricis in dicto Testamento nominati Cui Commissa fuit
24 Administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et creditorum dicti defuncti
25 de bene et fideliter administrando Eadem Ad sancta dei Evangelia
26 vigore Commissionis Jurat ex[a]m[inatus]
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