Cleaning Day

It is the basement cleaning day today (I am a day late this week but it still works!). I will begin later this morning as the day is a topsy-turvy one. 

Snow (light) is promised for today but has not yet appeared so may just be a thought rather than a reality. It is cold though at minus 5 degrees celsius. April tends to be like that though. All of this snow across Canada is a good thing though as the run off from snow is much slower than rain and the more we get the later the forest fires will begin. Hopefully not such a busy year with that as last year. We have had a lot of snow and rain and that is helpful. Most of our snow is gone but there are still patches and it was a slow runoff this year. 

Yesterday I worked on the beginning of the Blake Book; revising my Preface and my Acknowledgements got partially written as I had not yet done that. Principally the acknowledgement is to my grandfather as I would never have written it without his stories to me as a child. He was an interesting person in my life; always there when I was fairly young and then he moved to a small apartment when I was around six years of age as I recall but I used to visit him every Saturday and then he came back to our house to stay the night as I recall and we all went to Church on Sunday. My recollections are from a long time ago though and I can always be corrected. But he was always there for Sunday I remember. I missed him very much when he passed away. Although I clearly remember him in his coffin when I was eight years of age I still looked for him around me somewhat which was strange perhaps but a child of six has just so much comprehension and then dreaming and desire takes over I think. By eight years of age that changes somewhat but still the dreaming and the desire conflicts with what you know has actually happened. 

This book definitely acknowledges the stories of my grandfather as the prime driver in the writing of this book. Although many of the stories were repeated by my father in the years that followed my grandfather's death I always consider them to be his stories rather than my fathers. Sometimes my father would forget parts of a story and I would fill it with the memory of what grandpa had said. 

Perhaps this morning I will have a look at the Hinxman information that exists in the books and other records that I have and prepare them to send on to my correspondent in this family. This family line (Elenor Blake married Joseph Hinxman 10 Dec 1610 St Marys Andover) does not really add anything to my Blake line other than the often used forename Joseph which was carried by my 4x great grandfather Joseph Blake who was of Andover when he married Joanna King at All Saints Upper Clatford  8 Jun 1757. Both of these individuals (Joseph and Joanna) had mothers with the surname Carter and tracing them back gave me Edmond Carter and Ann (Monk) Carter (married 8 Sep 1700 St Marys Andover) as my 5x great grandparents and grandparents to Joseph Blake. Joanna's grandparents were John Carter and Jane (Woods) Carter (married 4 Aug 1701, St Marys Andover). The two Carter families do not appear to be related although both Carter marriages are at St Marys Andover with one in 1700 and the other in 1701. Interesting but I have not yet collected any information earlier than that. 

Comments on layoffs because of AI but I do wonder if part of the problem is the lack of training for young people. AI will need proper oversight and training to really be an effective addition to the workforce. It is unlikely in the long run that it will diminish the number of jobs overall as the requirements for managing AI will be considerably different from human input into the various jobs that are currently being considered for AI work. In order to have AI do the best job on the designated work one must have management and control (judgement) and security in place but it will be a gradual turnover if one is to have the best results from the implementation of AI. 

Schools must be more attentive to the students currently learning to assure that their management skills are probed and perfected as they will enter the workforce at a higher level of proficiency than currently (that is why language skills are so important even in four year old kindergarten and the students should all be at a similar level and if not those who can not work at that level need to be in remedial until they can). When I was substituting for absent teachers the going thought at that time was to have students work together which does encourage good co-operation but sadly doesn't teach management skills to all of the students that are in a group as they did not know how to do that so my process was to have each student manage the initial project at their desk and then work together to create the final product (that makes better use of their skill sets and eliminates ideas that are less effective much quicker). They didn't like it as much but their efforts were too slow to reach the stage where working together was effective; too much conversation and not enough productivity I did note at that time. But personally I did not care to teach particularly and only did substitute teaching to help out so did not attempt to create any thoughts on eliminating the idea of working together at initial stages but rather have each member of the group prepare for the bringing together to save wasted time on discussion which was too wide-ranging for the task at hand. Focus is definitely much more important than abstract ideas that take up too much time to bring to a point where they are useful. Better that the abstract idea is constructed singly and then either used or discarded. More effective I think. 

Must get some work done. Tea all drank and solitaire puzzles are next to sharpen the brain for the next stages of my work.  

 

 

Holy Saturday (Black Saturday when I was a child)

 The Easter weekend continues and it is Holy Saturday although when I was a child we called it Black Saturday. The Second World War perhaps gave more thought to calling it Black Saturday. It was a day of contemplation in silence mostly but we know the answer that on Sunday just 24 hours away we would celebrate as Christians have for two thousand years and more the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. But on Saturday it is always a day of contemplation of waiting holding onto that promise that Jesus made that He would rise again from death's grip because it was God's promise.  Life changed between those two days more than two thousand years ago for a group of people in the Holy Land as they took on the mantle of Jesus Christ and built His Church still active around the world all these centuries later (our new Pope has given us his words of wisdom on this blessed weekend and there will be more tomorrow). Throughout my life though we have changed here and there accepting God's new commandments which will lead us to that peaceful uplifted plain where all are free and we are at peace taking care of this beautiful world and helping it to heal so that all the children's children's children can run on the soft sandy beaches and swim in the fresh or sea water just as we did as children. 

Yesterday was a busy day in some ways but also a quiet day; I did attend the Good Friday Service at my Church on YouTube. The music was, as always, quite beautiful. The symbolism unchanged and yet modern to my eyes and our minds are all moving forward to Easter slowly but surely coming in less than 24 hours now. My Anglicanism does not change very much through this 80 years; its consistency is its strength. This Church, my Church, which goes back into the deep deep past of the British Isles with its roots in the Celtic Churches of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Thank you God for being with us all these thousands and thousands of years. The dawn of DNA and all those testers show me that my roots are very very deep in the British Isles but we are all Homo sapiens.  

Next week I shall return to my work and complete the extraction of the matches. I need to have a look for Hinxman and its derivatives in my records and will set some time aside for that quest. I did not do a lot on Hinxman but did do some. It is a name that enters the Blake family way back in the early 1600s with the marriage of Elenor Blake to Joseph Hinxman at St Marys Andover. 

A lot got done this past couple of weeks - nice to have the new drapes and the old blinds gone. Much easier to handle (they all wash in the washing machine). Anything that cuts down on the work load in a good way is a bonus. Contemplating moving but it will be a while before that happens I suspect. Not a rush but will be nice to just have the one floor (and the basement). This house is actually small enough but feels large because it has two floors and a basement and every nook and cranny of the building is used for rooms (a good engineering feat for sure and we have enjoyed our 48 years here). I never wanted to move; I did not have close family here and the desire to have more entertainment area just never appealed to me and eventually Edward lost his desire to have a bigger house in favour of his garden that he loved. 

Prayers continuing for my eldest sister; I will send a letter every Sunday that her husband can read to her if he wishes. Life has become much smaller for her and we certainly just circled the wagons when Edward was no longer able to be part of anything larger than family.  Once we were seven siblings and now we are four siblings and that is how life flows; I remember my grandmother saying that as she too was one of seven siblings although two of them (twin boys died as infants) were so little when they left that family and the next to pass away was her mother when she was eleven and her father when she was fourteen. The five of them were quickly gathered up and taken to the Marston Green Cottages at Soho (Birmingham, Warwickshire, England) where they lived a short time and slowly sent to Canada between 1905 and 1908 (although by then she was 20 and paid her own way coming with one of the groups to Halifax where she took over the care of her second youngest sister) and they all traveled to London, Ontario where her (until then) unknown half-sister lived and she had consented to take the youngest child into her home. The others all adults by the standards of the time found jobs and a new life. My second oldest aunt was the first of the five to pass away in her mid 60s (a blue baby at birth who survived all those years) and grandma said once there were seven and now we are four but she too passed away twelve years later followed by the only brother (second eldest) who had survived the First World War in France living to be 84 years of age, followed by the third eldest sister who passed away three years later. My mother was worried about her last aunt, the youngest, and so we (Edward, our one year old and myself) traveled to visit with her in that same year (1975). She was very like my grandmother (the eldest and the youngest in that family) and she was fine and loved it that we had brought our nearly year old daughter as she had had three sons and no daughters and was living on her own at that time. She too said once we were seven and now there is just me left. She lived another ten years but her son came and took her home to be with him which was wonderful and her letters told me of her happy life with her grand daughter (I have corresponded with her). What stories they sometimes would tell me of their life and one day perhaps I will write a book about the Buller family of Bermondsey, Surrey and Birmingham, Warwickshire. But as a child I never thought about being old and that we would become a smaller and smaller group this set of seven siblings. Life is a continuous happening and it is an amazing gift of God to Homo sapiens that we need to appreciate and care for and help bring us to that uplifted plain of peace. Where all can live in peace and the children can sleep without fear. 

Another day for the trip around the moon and Jeffrey Hansen spoke this morning from the space capsule along with the rest of the crew. Canada's astronaut in Space; how marvelous that is. 

Tea all drank and must do my solitaire puzzles.  

 

Working on GedMatch

 First sibling completed and into the second sibling. I have changed the methodology that I was using and this will be a quicker study but I had to do the long form first just to make sure I was seeing everything that I wanted to see. I am looking for items that upset the apple cart primarily. Making sure that nothing exists that proves I am incorrect in my thinking. That of course is a mirage in many ways because the number of people who have tested their autosomal DNA remains small looking at a global existence. However, I just happen to be lucky to only have ancestry from the British Isles back into the 1400s as far as I can tell. But the Parish Registers certainly show my lines back into the 1500s some as early as the first registers in 1538 so I feel somewhat confident that I am capturing a true picture of my heritage since it includes the data for four other siblings and we all match in such a way that we are all descendant of our parents without a doubt. 

The interesting part in all of this is the desire and consistent updating of the ethnicity of these five siblings by the various testing companies. They keep drilling down deeper and deeper into areas of the British Isles where I have proven ancestry. The occasional sudden shift like from southern Dorset to Lancashire in the 1800s was already known to me by word of mouth. A huge 80 year old birthday party for Charles Butt in his native Dorset called home so many of those descendants and this being an endogamous group it was huge and remains very large around the world.  My grandfather was five years old at that time but he clearly remembered going to the party and seeing all those cousins. 

Why did my grandfather recount these stories to me? Why choose a child of five years of age or perhaps even less as I can always remember him telling me stories. He would repeat those stories ad infinitum throughout our time together. Being the child I was though, adoring him completely, I listened and never said you already told me. I just loved listening to him tell me his stories of his life in the country of his birth. But the cause was his discovery of a book in the local Library written about the Blake family of Galway, Ireland. He wanted us to know that we were descendant of the Blake family of Andover and Upper Clatford where he was born. That was very important to him. Coincidentally in the latter part of the 1800s people came from America (Blake descendants) trying to find out more about Nicholas Blake of Knight Enham nr Andover who had been given a different family line by Horatio Gates Somerby (a fraudulent American genealogist who wrote stories for people in the United States about the Blake family that were incorrect (and there were other families who received the same makeover)). 

So I continue my pursuit of data that could point to something contrary to what I have put together thus far. This recent email from a descendant of the Hinxman family of Upper Clatford is interesting as he is on site there and looking at documents that might well interest me since there was a marriage between a Blake female and a male Hinxman way back in 1610 at Andover.  Elenor Blake (daughter of Richard Blake and Jone (Blake) Blake) married Joseph Hinxman 10 Dec 1610 at St Mary Andover. A very distant relationship (I estimate that Eleanor is my 9th great grandaunt). So yes I will be looking keenly at anything he does send me as this is a difficult time in the records coming into the 1630s/1640s/1650s as Cromwell had taken over the government of England and suspended the Parish Registers. However, some brave souls recorded them anyway and that included William Blake of Andover (and Foxcott) who married Ann Hellier 5 Sep 1644 at St Mary Andover and recorded the baptisms of three children at Penton Mewsey near Andover and at St Mary Andover itself. It is the linchpin in my thoughts with regard to the descent of my Blake line that eventually moved from Andover to Upper Clatford with the marriage of Joseph Blake to Joanna King 8 Jun 1757 at Upper Clatford All Saints. 

Tea all drank and now the solitaire puzzles to do. It is a good way to really jumpstart my brain in the morning. Another working day ahead of me; cleaning all done for this week.  

Prayers continuing for our beautiful world. Special prayers for the souls of the two pilots who died in the accident at LaGuardia Airport. Continuing prayers for those in hospital recovering from the same accident.  

Day 15 counting down to zero for the dogs

 That is how I explain to them each morning when they wake up and it is me they are looking at and not their usual family; Day 15 and counting down to Day 0  for them. They seem to understand as we have done this a lot of times now and dogs can be quite clever. 

The dogs, cats and I all slept fairly soundly all night and we were all within 20 or 30 feet or 6 to 10 km of each other in case we wondered where each other was. Fascinating really spending time with animals. Then this morning we saw deer which is always an awesome experience. 

Not much done yesterday it was just a busy day overall.  A couple of new interesting emails one from the Hinxman family (The Blake family at Andover and the Hinxman family at Andover (I think) married in 1610 at Andover - Joseph Hinxman married Elenor Blake daughter of Richard Blake and Jone (Blake) Blake (this was a likely 2nd cousin marriage with a grandaughter of Robert Blake (brother of Nicholas)). The Hinxman family I did not find before the 1550s but do have a William Hinxman married to Margery (unknown) and they had eight children one of which was Joseph who married unknown and his son Joseph married Elenor Blake. They had seven children and Joseph Hinxman is the best known to me. He also named his eldest son Joseph and was married to Martha Samborin 23 Aug 1675 at Andover St Mary. They had four children including a Joseph Hinxman baptized 16 Oct 1677 at Andover. The question in my mind was my 4x great grandfather Joseph Blake son of Thomas Blake and Ann Carter married 8 Dec 1728 at Penton Mewsey with Joseph  baptized 21 Oct 1730 at St Mary Andover named after this well known individual and third cousin twice removed. Since this was an Anglican family the tendency to name sons Joseph wasn't as strong by this time as is more commonly found in Roman Catholic families still at this time.  Must write back and will contemplate that over the next couple of days. I have not done much work on the Hinxman family other than looking at Elenor (Blake) Hinxman's children/grandchildren etc. 

Fish all fed, dogs fed, cats fed and I am fed so the day begins and my tinnitus seems somewhat lessened surprisingly.  I have had tinnitus since my high school days when coping with teachers appeared to be my biggest problem. I think teachers assist students a lot but they should really wait for a student to ask for assistance. Myself I had a direction and really did not want anyone confusing that direction. Comments like you really shouldn't do the Business course because you are university material. But I had a reason for doing that and the jobs that I got in  my summers once I was old enough to work at 16 I wanted that type of background and experience and one can see that now typing and bookkeeping are extremely important in one's life. Teachers should stick to their subject matter and do a perfect job of passing that on to their students. Not interfere in a pattern already established by a student; if they do not have one then by all means if they ask help them but do not make haphazard comments that in the long run would not have been beneficial - one cannot know the future. 

Of course school and I were never good friends; I love to learn and for the most part I hated the way we were taught but could I come up with a better system for a class room of 30 to 45 students? I was probably a singleton learner who preferred not to have to work with other students unless they were like me, extremely interested and keen in the subject matter. Other than that I have no idea on the best system but I suspect COVID pointed the way as students who were singleton learners were not as affected by home study; I myself have never had any desire to teach. When I did do substitute teaching on the Bruce Peninsula when my husband taught there for a short period of time; I ran my classes like a sargeant major and they learned what they were supposed to learn that day but any attempts to convince me to actually teach were rebuffed. I was not interested in that sort of work; if you are then do the best you can because the children deserve that. The sargeant major attitude was simply to keep control of the class at all times without any fooling around which one must do if one is a substitute. You are there for a moment in time and must just accomplish what has been assigned for that day or two days or occasionally more; these children do not need a babysitter - they need to learn and quickly; the world is changing rapidly. The Provincial Curriculum is well set up for such needs but could use tweaking where AI is concerned. But the students themselves may provide that fodder of change just from usage.

Must make my tea. Solitaire puzzles to do and on with the day. The dogs and cats are contemplating how long fifteen days is I am sure.  I am probably stricter than their family. 

 

Will of Richard Blake, Linen Draper of Andover - The National Archives PROB 11/141/491, probated 15 May 1623

This will precedes the first will for Dorset because that will is for Elizabeth Blake second wife of Peter Blake who was a grandson of Richard Blake, Linen Draper of Andover. 

Richard Blake, Linen Draper, of Andover left his will dated 10 Sep 1622 and it was probated by his wife Jone/Joane 15 May 1623. It is easy to tell who his children are as he names all of them and some of his grandchildren are also named. Unfortunately he does not name his siblings nor does he give a hint on his parent’s names. Naming his brothers in law as Nicholas Blake and William Smith is perhaps a clue to the ancestry of his wife Jone Blake as her surname was Blake before marriage.

Names mentioned in the will:

Jone Blake, wife of testator
William Cooke, tenant
Mr. Palmes, land owner
Mr. Thomas Fittiplace, land owner
Sir Francis Neale, land owner
William Blake, eldest son
John Blake, son
Nicholas Blake, son
Richard Blake, son
Peter Blake, son
William Blake, grandson, second son of William Blake
Peter Blake, grandson, son of William Blake
Mr. Richard Venables, land owner
Jone Bayly, daughter
Dorothie Burmingham, daughter
Ellnor Hinxman, daughter
Margarett Savage, daughter
Mr. Peter Noyes the elder, cousin
Mr. Nicholas Blake, brother in law
Mr. William Smith, brother in law
Joseph Hinxman, son in law
Hugh Marshall, witness
Nicholas Blake, witness
John Elton, witness

Richard names his eldest son as William which is helpful since the parish registers for Andover have not yet begun when he is baptized.

Baptisms and marriages for the children at Andover:

William Blake married Dorothy Madgwick 6 Feb 1606 (likely born before 1586)
Jone Blake married Richard Bayly 6 May 1605 (likely born by 1585)
Elizabeth Blake married John Hapgood 18 Jun 1605 (likely born by 1585)
Dorothy Blake married Peter Burmingham Apr 1608 (likely born by 1588)
Elenor Blake baptized 23 May 1589, married to Joseph Hinxman 10 Dec 1610
Margaret Blake baptized 25 Apr 1592, married to Richard Savage Apr 1616
Richard Blake baptized 30 Sep 1593 (lived at Tower Ward, London)
Peter baptized 25 Jul 1596
Edward baptized 21 Feb 1598 and buried 2 Mar 1599
John baptized 25 Oct 1601
Nicholas baptized 27 Mar 1604
Alice buried 11 Sep 1613

Since the eldest children are likely born by 1585 the possible date of marriage for Richard Blake and Jone Blake would be circa 1584 or earlier. That would give a likely date of birth for Richard of the early 1560s. I believe this Richard to be the son of William and Elizabeth Blake with William Blake leaving his will in 1582 at Eastontown, near Andover. William does not mention grandchildren in his will but to place him in a family he does mention his brother and sisters. He is definitely the son of Nicholas and Margaret Blake of Enham.

Will blogged for William Blake probated 14 Nov 1582:

http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/09/will-of-william-blakeyeoman-of-andover.html

and he mentions his siblings which clearly places him in the family of Nicholas and Margaret Blake of Enham. His brother Edmund mentioned in his father’s and his mother’s will quite disappears from the records although said to have a son Stephen. William has a large family as seen in his will. It is this large family along with his cousin Robert’s family that form the nucleus of the Blake family in this area of Hampshire. Robert being a brother to Nicholas and named in their mother’s will and if I am right about Richard Blake who left his will in 1522 also named in his will.

Looking at the Visitation of Hampshire in 1686 which has been a rather confusing item in that Peter (a great grandson of William above (son of Richard the fifth son of William who left his will in 1582) Peter states that his father was William Blake of Andover and he has some sort of a legal action obt Ao 1647 mentioned and that he died before 11 Jul 1642 and was married to Dorothy Madgwick. He only mentions himself as a child of this couple and John the youngest brother who was apprenticed to Robert Mason of Southampton, merchant 11 Jul 1642. Peter states in the Visitation that the father of William married to Dorothy Madgwick was Richard Blake of Andover and that he had married Joane daughter of William Blake of Easton Town. He mentions only two of Richard’s children namely William (his father) and Richard of Tower Ward, London. This is the interesting part in that he moves back another generation and names William Blake as the father of Richard which is correct but this William Blake he has married to Anne daughter of Thomas Tutt of Chilbolton rather he should be naming William Blake of Easton-Town married to Margaret Hibberd because I am beginning to wonder if William Blake married to Anne Tutt and Jone Blake married to Richard Blake are siblings. Further I am wondering if William who left his will in 1582 was married twice otherwise I would be having Richard marrying his elder brother William’s daughter Jone so technically his niece. Not unheard of in this time frame but not very usual. The marriage records for this time period do not exist in the Parish Records at Andover so no help there as I have already transcribed them.

Peter Blake who wrote up the Visitation was baptized 5 Apr 1619. He would have been twelve years old when his grandmother Jone Blake died so presumably would have heard from her the ancestry of the family although William Blake and Ann Tutt were still likely living but their children were more than 10 years older than him. It remains an interesting dilemma why he has recorded his lineage in this way. But I continue to look for possible scenarios that could have resulted in him doing so. There is of course a second confusing marriage in this family where John the eldest son of William Blake (leaving his will in 1582) marries a Margaret Blake daughter of William Blake of Eastontown. This from the Blake Pedigree Chart which names John as the son of William Blake and Avis Ripley of Eastontown and Margaret (his wife) as the daughter of William Blake of Eastontown. This William at Eastontown is also said to have died in 1582 but the children of the two Williams do not match the will of 1582. If instead Margaret is the daughter of William married to Avis Ripley (and that William is said to be the son of Roger Blake and Mary Baynard of Pinhills, near Calne, Wiltshire) then it does simplify that chart. However, I digress. I am publishing the will of Richard Blake, linen draper of Andover, who left a charity which benefitted many many schoolchildren in Andover through the years.

On the other hand and a much simpler relationship would be that Jone Blake was descendant of Robert Blake (brother to Nicholas Blake of Enham). Indeed the eldest son of Robert Blake may be the Robert Blake who left his will in 1605 at Andover and one of my purchases will be this will. His possible children are Richard Blake and Nicholas Blake and two unknown daughters one of whom could be Jone and the other married to William Smith. But in that case the Visitation is entirely incorrect beyond Richard and one notes that the Visitation of London of 1633-34 which is quoted as the source for the material does not go back before Richard Blake married to Joane Blake (daughter of William Blake of Eastontown).

You definitely need to love mysteries to do genealogy!

While investigating the next will I came across an interesting item in Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Volume 10, Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo, Sherborne:  J.C. Satwell, published 1907 (pages 309-327):

 http://archive.org/stream/notesqueriesfor05unkngoog/notesqueriesfor05unkngoog_djvu.txt

"William Rolfe, of Enford, married Sara, daughter of John Blake, of Estontown, Hants, who married his cousin, Margaret Blake, and had issue William Rolfe who died in 1646, having married Sarah Deane, and Sara Rolfe, who married George Dyer. Sara Rolfe (the mother), was married, secondly, to John Gerle, of Enford, who came from a well-known Hampshire family. He was one of the witnesses to George Dyer's marriage.

The will of John Gerle, of Long street in the parish of Enford, gentleman, is dated 26 Sep 1633 and proved 13 Feb 1633/34 (FCC 20 Seager). In his will he metions his niece Mary Dycke, his sons, Alexander and Thomas, son-in-law (stepson) William Rolfe, Esq., and William Tipper, of Seene (Seend): Witnesses, Henry Colepepper and others.

The complaint of Mary Dyke, of Chizenbury, Wilts, dated 14 June, 14 Car. I. states that John Gerle, late of Long street in the parish of Enford, gentleman, became on the 10 March, 6 Car. I, bound to the complainant for the payment of ___ at his decease, but in his will only ___ were left to her. He appointed Alexander Gerle, his son, executor. His estate was valued at _______ and more. The complainant sued Alexander Gerle in 1637, and obtained judgment against him, but in order to avoid payment he conveyed his estates to Robert Blake, of Estontown, Hants, gentleman, and George Dyer, of Heytesbury, Wilts, gentleman, in trust for his children.

George Dyer and Robert Blake deny the facts of the complainant's case except regarding the legacy, saying the estate was not sufficient to satisfy the claims on it.  ......l..

On 28 Nov 1645, William Blake, citizen and vintner of London, complainant, William Dyer, of London, gentleman, and ...... Cross and Sarah, his wife, otherwise Sarah Blake, executors to the will of Thomas Gerle, gentleman, (dated 27 Mar 1643) who bequeathed his estate to his cousin William Dyer, his cousin William Blake, his cousin Sarah Blake, and John Walker, and they to be executors. Proved 2 May, 1643 (PCC 35 Crane). "

This continues on for several pages as the estate is contested into the 1700s. This I find very interesting as it is the first mention of a relationship between John Blake of Eastontown near Andover and his wife Margaret Blake. That they are cousins. I collected all the paperwork and will have a longer look at it.


Transcribed by: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 22nd  February 2008
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/141/491
Place: Andover, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Testator: Richard Blake, Linen Draper
Place: Andover, Hampshire, England
Dated: 10 Sep 1622, probated 15 May 1623
Read: Electronic copy
Condition: scan, smudges, old English writing good, contrast medium

[Margin]: T[estament] Richardi
[Margin]: Blake

1    In the name of the eternall and everlivinge
2    God father sonne and holly ghost, In whose name I was baptized in whome only I hope and beleive
3    to bee saved Amen The tenth daie of december in the yeare of our lord god one thousand six
4    hundred and two and twentie And in the yeares of the raigne of our soueraigne Lord James
5    by the grace of god king of England France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc the twentith
6    and of Scotland the six and fiftieth I Richard Blake of Andever in the Countie of South[amp]t[on]
7    lynnen drapier aged of yeares being sicke in boddie but of good and perfitt memorie I thancks
8    my god the giver and preserver thereof doe make and ordayne this my last will and testament
9    as followeth Revokinge hereby both in deede and in lawe all former and other wills heretofore
10    made by mee And first with a free hart and willing mind I doe yield and render my soule
11    into thee hands o[f] father sonne and holye ghost I doe acknowledge with all my hart and doe
12    confesse I am a greate sinner and have neede of the grace mercy and favor of God and I hope
13    that I shall find both grace and merrit of god the father for his beloved Christs sake in him
14    I believe, hee is my redeemer hee liveth for ever and ever and maketh intercession for sinners
15    and this I knowe that now I am a corruptible body but I hope throughe Jesus Christ to rise an
16    Incorruptible boddie and I believe that the lord will have mercie uppon mee for hee first made
17    mee soe this I believe whether I live or dye I am the lords to whome bee all honor glory power and
18    dominion both now and for evermore Amen As concerning my boddie I bequeath itt to the earth
19    from whence itt came Item I give to Trynitie Church in Wynton – ij s vi d and to the church
20    of Andever xx s Item I give and devise to Joane Blake my loving wife my house wherein I
21    now dwell in Andever and all the lands w[i]th th[e ]appurten[a]nce thereunto belonging And all that
22    my house and lands thereunto belonging in Andever aforesaid heretofore called the Bleu Ancker and
23    is now called the Phenix in the possession of William Cooke And all other my lands and ten[emen]ts in
24    Andever aforesaid ^ w[hi]ch I purchased severally of Mr Palmes and of Mr Thomas Fittiplace and alsoe that house or tenement in Andever aforesayd wherein Walter Waight shoomaker now dwelleth And alsoe all that my messuage
25    or ten[emen]ts and one acre of land in Sopstreete alias Soplane in Andever aforesaid and allsoe
26    all that my mannor and farme of Cricklades with the water mill thereof in Andever
27    aforesaid and all the lands rents profitts and com[m]odities whatsoever thereunto belonging
28    And allsoe all that my messuage and Farme of Gallacre al[ia]s Gavellacre and all the lands
29    rents profitts and com[m]odities whatsoever thereunto belonging And allsoe all those my lands ten[emen]ts and
30    hereditaments which I purchased of Sir Francis Neale lyeing in Forton in the p[ar]ish of Longe
31    parish And all and ev[er]ie in the rents of the said sev[er]all mannors messuages lands tene[men]ts and p[re]misses
32    referred upon anie lease or leases thereof or of anie p[ar]te thereof made To have and to hould all
33    and singular the said mannor messuags farmes mill lands tene[men]ts and p[re]misses unto the sayd
34    Joane my wief for and during her naturall life if shee shall soe long continue and keepe her self sole
35    and unmarried And after her decease or marriage w[hi]ch shall first happen I devise and bequeath
36    all and singular the saide mannor messuags farmes mill lands ten[emen]ts and p[re]misses and the rev[er]cion
37    and remaynder of them and ev[er]ie of them in manner and forme following that is to saie I give and
38    devise unto Will[ia]m Blake my eldest sonne my saied dwelling house and all that my saied mannor and
39    Farme of Cricklades together with the mill thereof and all the lands thereunto sev[er]allie and respectively
40    belonging and all the houses and lands with theire appurten[an]ces which I purchased of Mr Thomas
41    Feffiplace aforesaide To have and to hould to him the saide Will[ia]m Blake and his heires for ever
42    And I give and devise unto John Blake my sonne All that my said messuage or ten[emen]te called
43    the Bleu Ancker or Phenix aforesaide and all other the messuags lands and ten[emen]ts w[hi]ch I purchased
44    of Mr Palmes in Andever aforesaide and alsoe all that my said house or ten[emen]te wherein Walter
45    Waight aforesaide now dwelleth and all the lands thereunto belonging To have and to hold unto
46    my saide sonne John Blake and to the heires of his boddie lawfullie begotten and for defaulte of
47    such issue the Remaynder thereof to my said sonne Will[ia]m Blake ad his heires for ever
48    And I give and devise unto my sonne Nicholas Blake All those my lands ten[emen]ts and hereditaments
49    lyeing in Forton aforesaid w[hi]ch I lately purchased of Sir Frances Neale to have and to hold unto
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51    unto my saide sonne Nicholas his heires and assignes for ever Uppon this condition that my
52    saide sonne Nich[ol]as Blake and his heires shall paie to ev[er]ie of his brothers and sisters twenty pounds
53    apeece within two yeares next after the decease of Joane my saide wife And further I give and
54    devise unto my saide sonne Nich[ol]as Blake All that my messuage and Farme of Gallacre alias
55    Gavellacre and all the lands ten[emen]ts and hereditam[en]ts thereunto belonging and the rev[er]cion and Remaynder
56    thereof with their appurt[en[ancs To have and to hould unto my sayde sonne Nicholas Blake and
57    to the heires of his boddie lawfullie begotten and for defaulte of such yssue the Remaynder thereof
58    to my sayde sonne Will[ia]m Blake and to the heires of his boddie lawfullie begotten and for defaulte
59    of such yssue the Remaynder thereof to him and his heirs for ever provided allwaies and my will
60    is that if itt shall happen my saide Farme and lands of Gallacre to come unto my sayde sonne
61    Will[ia]m Blake or to his heires for defaulte of heires of the boddie of my sayde sonne Nicholas lawfullie
62    begotten That then my saide sonne Will[ia]m Blake or his heire which att that time shalbe shall
63    paie unto Richard Blake my sonne two hundred pounds, to Peter Blake my sonne one hundred pounds
64    and to John Blake my sonne one hundred pounds of currant english money to bee paid w[i]thin two
65    yeeres nexte after the said land shall come unto my saide sonne Will[ia]m or to his heires as aforesaide
66    And yf my sayde sonne Will[ia]m or his heires to whome the sayde land shall happen to come for defaulte
67    of heires of the body of my said sonne Nich[ol]as shall make default of payment of the sayd sev[er]all
68    som[m]es of money unto my said sonnes Richard, Peter and John in manner as is aforesayd That
69    then I give and devise the saide Farme of Gallacre and lands thereunto belonging unto my sayde sonne
70    Richard Blake and his heirs uppon condition likewise that the said Richard Blake or his heires
71    shall paie unto my said sonnes Peter and John one hundred pounds apeece, And I give and devise
72    unto William Blake my grandchilde second sonne of my sonne Wyll[ia]m All that my saide messuage
73    or ten[emen]te in Soperlane al[ia]s Soperstreete aforesaid and one acre of land thereunto belonginge
74    and the rev[er]cion and Remaynder thereof To have and to holde unto him and to the heyres of his bodye
75    lawfully begotten and for defaulte of such yssue the Remaynder thereof to Peter Blake his brother
76    one other of my grandchildren and to his heires for ever Item I give and devise unto Jone Blake
77    my sayde wife All that my moyety p[ar]te and porcion of the Farme of Upclatford and the rents
78    thereof which I sometymes held together w[i]th Mr Richard Venables To have and receive the rents
79    and profitts thereof for and during all the estate and terme of yeeres therein yet to come
80    and unexpired (if shee shall soe long live and keepe her self widdowe and unmaryed and after
81    her decease or marriage which shall first happen I give and devise all my estate and terme of
82    yeares therein then to come and unexpired with the rents and profitts thereof unto my sayde
83    sonne John Blake his executors and assignes; provided my will and meaning is that my said
84    wief shall paie out of the rents and proffitts of the sayd Farme of Clatford unto my sayd sonne
85    John Blake for his mayntenance att Oxforde the some of xxiiiij li by the yeere yearly Item
86    I give and bequeath unto my sonne Richard Blake fower hundred pounds of currant
87    english money over and above all such moneys as hee hath allreadie had of mee to bee paied unto
88    him by my executrix in manner following viz [a vi]t one hundred pounds thereof within six months
89    next after my decease and soe within ev[er]ie six moneths next following one hundred pounds
90    untill the sayd some of fower hundred pounds bee fullie paied Item whereas I promised to
91    give unto my sonne Peter Blake upon his marriage with his now wief the some of Five
92    hundred pounds (Three hundred pounds whereof I have allreadie paied unto him my will is
93    that my executrix shall paye unto him one hundred pounds more within one yeere next
94    after my decease and in full satisfaction of the said Five hundred pounds I give unto my
95    sayd sonne Peter my lease and terme of yeares of the Salteren or Salthouse in or neere
96    the towne of Southampton if hee shall accept thereof in satisfaction of the sayd
97    500 li Item I give to ev[er]ie of the children of Jone Bayly my daughter x ls a peece
98    Item I give unto Dorothie Burmingham my daughter x li and to ev[er]ie of her children
99    40 s apeece Item I give unto Ellnor Hinxman my daughter one hundred pounds in
100    regard her porcion hath beene lesse then the rest of her sisters and to ev[er]ie of her children
101    40 s apeece Item I give unto Margarett Savage my daughter xx li and to ev[er]ie of her
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103    children 40 s apeece Item I give to ev[er]ie of my sonne William Blakes children 40 s apiece Item the residue
104    of all my goods credditts debts cattells and chattells whatsoever not given nor bequeathed moveable and un-
105    moveable I give and bequeath fully and wholly to Jone Blake my sayde wief whom I make and ordeyne to
106    bee my only and sole executrix of this my last will and testament to paie all my debts and discharge all
107    my legacies hereby given and bequeathed and to see my bodye decentlie buried Item my will is that all the
108    waynskott glasse benches shelves table bordes and ioynestooles of my dwelling house shall after my
109    sayd wifes decease remayne and bee unto my said sonne William unde[r]saied My overseers of
110    this my last will I desire to bee my Cossen Mr Peter Noyes th[e ]elder, my brother in law Mr Nich[ol]as
111    Blake my brother in law Mr Will[ia]m Smith and my sonne in law Joseph Hinxman and I
112    give unto each of them xx s a peece giving willing and graunting unto them and the longest li-
113    ver of them full power and authoritie to determyne decyde and end all ambiguities doubtes
114    questions and debates whatsoever which shall arise amongest my sayd children or anye of them
115    And further my will is that my executrix shall become bound by obligacion to my overseers as
116    they shall thincke reasonable before my will bee proved to p[er]fourme and paye all the legacyes be-
117    fore given and bequeathed w[hi]ch yf shee shall refuse to doe Then my will is that Will[ia]m Blake my
118    sonne shall bee my executor of this my last will becominge bound as aforesaide to perfourme
119    the same provided allwaies and my will is that yf itt shall happen after my decease anye of my
120    sonnes or anye other to whome I have limited to enioye anye p[ar]te of my lands or goods aforesaide
121    not to content himself or themselves with such porcion of lands or goods in such manner and
122    sort as I have before given and bequeathed the same or shall attempt practise or endeavour to
123    disturbe alter chaunge frustrate or made voide in anie respect or point this my last will
124    and testament and the contents of the same or anie p[ar]te thertoof that then my sayd sonnes he or
125    they and every other person and persons to whome I have given and graunted to have and enjoy anye
126    p[ar]te of my lands goods and chattells shall for ever lose the benefitt of this my last will to all
127    intents and purposes and the legacies to them or any of them by the same given and devised
128    And then I doe give and devise the same porcion of my lands and goods to the residue of my sayde
129    sonnes not soe offendinge to be equallie and indifferentlye divided amongest them Item my will
130    and meaning is that my sayde wief shall receive and have all the rents and p[ro]fitts of my
131    lands given unto her as is aforesayde towards the paiement of the legacies in this my will
132    contayned yf my goods and chattells shall not suffice to satisfie the same And lastely I give and
133    bequeath unto the corporacion of the towne of Andever and theire successors for ever Thirty
134    pounds of currant english money uppon condicion that the Baylief and approved men for the
135    time being of the sayde corporacion shall with the same money either purchase land in Fee
136    simple to the use of the poore people of the same towne accordinge to the proporcion of the sayd somme
137    of Thirtie poundes and paye the rent thereof yeerelye unto the sayde poore people or els that the
138    sayd Bailliffe and approved men shall give securitie unto my executrix and overseers or the s[ur]vivors
139    of them by rent chardge or otherwise by some other assurance as shal[l ]bee by my sayd executrix and
140    overseers or the survivor of them or theire counsell learned devised to paye unto the sayd poore
141    people such as have most neede and to soe manie of them as the sayd Bailliffe and approves
142    men shall thinke fitt the some of fourty shillings att the feast of St Thomas theapostle yerely
143    for ever And further I give towards the paving of the waye to the Free scoolhouse in Andever
144    the some of twentie shillings In witnes whereof I have to this my last will and testament sett
145    my hand and seale the daie and yere above written Richard Blake witnesses hereeunto Hugh
146    Marshall  Nich: Blake  John Elton

Will of Richard Blake gentleman of London - National Archives PROB 11/192/150, probated 19 Dec 1644

I published this will 15 Feb 2011 and have now proofread it once again with my extra nearly two years of transcribing and found a couple of minor changes which do not actually affect the reading or the information particularly but would mention that. It is always good to go back and look at old documents as it is surprising sometimes the things that are missed. I had planned to go into my trees at the earlier time of writing and see just what this will had presented to me in terms of people who are related to Richard Blake of Tower Ward, London.

 http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/02/richard-blake-will-of-23-mar-1643.html

However a busy two years since I blogged on this particular will has resulted in my not returning to even think about this will. It has reappeared in my list for London wills because I put it in there when I was sorting wills. 

This Richard Blake is known to me. He is the son of Richard Blake and Joane Blake (likely second cousins but still working on that particular item). He appears on the Visitation of London 1633 as Richard Blake of Tower Ward married with two young sons. Since neither a wife nor children are mentioned in his will one can only assume that they have died. Such was life at that time and well into the early 1900s when sudden death was something that occurred rather too often particularly with young children. The march of modern medicine has made an incredible difference particularly in the lives of children and women in childbirth.

He is readily placed in the family of Richard Blake and Joane Blake because he mentions his siblings - Joane Bailey, Dorothie Burmingham, Ellen Hinxman, and Margaret Savadge his sisters and Peter and Nicholas his brothers. Missing from this list of siblings are: Elizabeth Hopgood (deceased 1607), Alice (deceased 1613), Edward (deceased 1599), John (deceased before 1641), and the eldest William (deceased 1642). His parents as mentioned were Richard (buried 14 Jan 1622 at Andover) and Jone (buried 20 May 1631).

He mentions his godchildren and perhaps Richard is his nephew (son of his eldest brother William). He also mentions Ellen Hinxman god daughter and this child has perhaps died young as I do have seven children for his sister Elenor Hinxman (and her husband Joseph the elder) including: Joseph, William, Mary, Jane, Alice, Richard and Nicholas.

He uses the term cousin for the remainder of his relatives and they include the children of his brother Peter namely: Richard, Dorothie, Jane, Mary and Joane Blake.

He may have another cousin Richard (perhaps one of his mother's siblings have a son Richard Blake) as he mentions him separately from Peter's children. This could also be the son of his eldest brother William not sure of that. Richard occurs several times in the line of Robert Blake who was the brother of this testator's great grandfather (Nicholas).

He also remembers his cousin Jane Noyes (was Hinxman and daughter of Ellen his sister) married to Mr. Samuel Noyes. Joseph Hinxman the younger is also mentioned and he too is a son of his sister Ellen. Alice Hinxman is  the daughter of Ellen as well. He remembers Dorothy Smyth and I suspect she is the eldest daughter of his brother William Blake (married to John Smyth). He also remembers Dorothy's children.

He mentions his sister Deborah Blake of Galligar and his brother Nicholas lives at Galligar so perhaps is the wife of Nicholas. He also remembers his cousin Richard Blake's wife and I suspect this is the oldest son of William his brother. He asks his cousin Richard to help with Peter's children. There is a Richard Blake who witnesses this will as well.

No surprises in the will and I can place everyone in what would appear to be the correct family. The Smyth family isn't well known to me though but I must admit one of the themes running through these wills is the need to help Dorothy Smyth and most of her siblings/parents/other relatives remember Dorothy in their wills.

The earlier blog was establishing a timeline which I think has now been well established with regard to the parents and grandparents of this testator. I will reinsert the copy for the will transcription into the earlier blog with the changes.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24th October 2010
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/192/150
Testator: Richard Blake, gentleman
Place: Tower Ward, London, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 23 March 1643/44, probated 19 Dec 1644
Read: Electronic copy
Condition: scan, smudges, old English writing good, contrast medium

[Margin]: T[estator] Richardi
[Margin]: Blake

1    In the name of the eternall and
2    everliving god Father Sonne and holy ghost in whose name I was baptized in
3    whome only I hope and beleeve to be saved with a free heart and willing minde I
4    doe yeeld and render my soule into the hands of Father, sonne and holy ghost and I
5    beleeve that the lord will have mercy upon my soule for he first made me; soe this I
6    beleeve that whether I live or dye I am the lords, to whome be all honour and glory
7    power and dominion fore evermore Amen, As concerning my body I bequeath it to the
8    earth from whence it came I Richard Blake of London gent[leman] being sicke and weake in
9    bodye but of good and p[er]fect memory I thanke my god the giver and p[re]server thereof
10    doe make this my last will and testam[en]t as followeth The twentie third day of March
11    one thousand six hundred forty three, Item I give to my sister Joane Baylie twentie
12    pounds To my sister Dorothie Burmingham twenty pounds, To my sister Ellen Hinxman
13    twenty pounds, To my sister Margaret Savadge twenty pounds, To my cozen Richard
14    Blake th[e ]elder twenty pounds; Item I give to my godchildren to whome I gave nothing
15    at their baptizing, To my godson Richard Blake twenty shillings, To my goddaught[e]r
16    Ellen Hinxman twentie shillings, To my godson William Poore twenty shillings, To my
17    godsonne Richard Blake at long parrish twenty shillings, Item I give to Mr. John
18    Barker and his wife each of them an enamild Ring valued twelve shillings six pence
19    To Mr. Jn[o] Glascock, To Mr Laurence Newman, To Mr Jn[o] Gatley, To Mr. Richard
20    Pettingall to each of them to each of them an enameld Ring of twelve shillings six
21    pence price To Mr. Will[ia]m Irat an enameld Ring of twenty two shillings, To Mr.
22    Samuell Edoll one enameld Ring of twenty two shillings Item I give to Mr Laurence
23    Newman my watch and doe desire him to assist my executor on his business at London.
24    Item I give to my brother Peter ten pounds and to his five children my cosens viz[ a vi]z
25    my Richard fyftie pounds To my cozen Dorothie, my cozen Jane, my cozen Mary,
26    and my cozen Joane Blake twenty five pounds apeece, To my old landlady Millicent
27    Price tenn pounds Item I give to my cozen Joseph Hinxman the younger five
28    pounds To my cozen Jone Noyes five pounds To my cozen Alice Hinxman twenty
29    shillings Item I give to my cozen Dorothie Smith forty shillings; And to each her children
30    each of them being fouer twenty shillings a peece Item I give to mjy sister Hinxman a
31    fayre diamond ring Item I give to my said sister Hinxman one faire damask table-
32    cloth a dozen diaper napkins two plane table cloths and a dozen of napkins being
33    at Mrs Prices Item I give to my sister Deborah Blake of Galligar my looking
34    glasse Item I give to my cozen Richard Blake's wife a new Beaker being at
35    Mrs. Price's Item I give to Mrs Price my bed and furniture table and stowler w[i]th
36    the great chest behind the chamber dore Item I doe make and ordaine my
37    brother Nicholas Blake of Galligar my executor and doe give him by way of
38    legacie one hundred pounds There is some residue more of my estate about two
39    or three hundred pounds where if it be gott in bee devided the one half to my
40    executor and his brother Peter Blake, the other half to my four Sisters viz[ a vi]t
41    Joane and Dorothie, Elline and Margaret, And yf any of my legatees doe
42    contend w[i]th my legacie to trouble my executor before the money can be gott
43    in to loose his part More I give to my cozen Alice Hinxman one large bible
44    bound in blue leather and guilded, and my silke grogram cloke and to her
45    brother William my rapier And I desire my cozen Richard Blake to be assistant
46    as an overseer to see the children of my brother Peter not wronged as farr as in
47    him lyeth Item I give my sister Dorothie six poundes which shee owed by debt
48    Item I give to my Executor one Fayre Turke Belt w[i]th greene leather and
49    gould wyer In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the
50    day and yeare above written Richard Blake [signed] Witnesses Richard Blake John
51    Elton

Will of Nicholas Blake - National Archives, PROB 11/31/549, probated 20 Jun 1547

The will of Nic[h]olas Blake was written 31 May 1547 and probated 20 Jun 1547. I had forgotten that Nicholas mentions Robert Boswell and again this links with the will of William Blake of Speen in 1552 as Robert Boswell is his father in law whom he makes executor of his will. Now is this the same Robert Boswell? Always that question comes first to mind. He would appear to be the tenant of Nicholas and as I read through William's will I am seeing now that William Blake does hold the lease of the tenements that William Blake of Speen occupies but it appears that William also tills that piece of land. A mite confusing as you look at it and again the will of William Blake at Speen in 1552:

http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/05/will-of-william-blake-yeoman-of-speen.html

I still wonder if they are related but is this perhaps the answer to the mystery? No, the children of William Blake of Speen do not match the children on the Blake Pedigree Chart. William Blake at Speen's siblings however are Richard and John with no mention of a sister in his will (on the chart the children of William Blake married to Avis Ripley are John, William and Peter with a sister Agnes married to Roger Hyde). So this is not that family either. The children of William Blake of Speen are Anthony and others unnamed (perhaps only one other) and his wife was Ellyne. The date of William Blake of Speen's will is 1552 not 1582 as in the Pedigree Chart.

Nicholas names his wife Margaret and as of this date I have no ideas on her surname. He names his children as William Blake eldest, Edmund Blake under 21 years of age, Alice Goodwyn (married daughter) and Elizabeth unmarried. William is married and they have children as the inheritance of his daughters if they die before inheriting is to be divided up amongst the children of William. We can see the property in this will which has passed to William and mentioned in William's will of yesterday. William has added greatly to his holdings and again Lord Sandy is the Lord of the Manor. The holdings are all in Andover, Knights Enham and Kings Enham in Nicholas' will. William Blake is the first to state that he lives at Eastontown.

Working backwards from Peter Blake's will to William Blake's will to Nicholas Blake's will and then tomorrow to Jone Blake's will is an interesting trip through time. I am beginning to wonder about Peter Blake's will and whether I am dealing with these two William Blake lines with his will and then the other three (Jone-Nicholas-William) that fit together. On the other hand Peter Blake in his will does not mention any of the properties that the Jone Blake-Nicholas Blake-William Blake family hold. What he does mention is his kinsmen William Hinxman of Hatherden, Mr. Nicholas Blake of Gavelacre and Mr. Richard Blake his brother and their sister Mrs. Jone Blake. I need to think about these three people and exactly who they are and how they fit into the Blake family at Andover. It could be the clue that I have been struggling to find to solve the mystery of the two William Blakes at Eastontown (or one married twice).

One thing I do know and that is the William Blake who dies in 1642 leaving his will (married to Dorothy Madgwick) is in financial trouble and this trouble becomes even more evident in Dorothy's will. Then we see their now eldest son William (his brother Richard died in 1648) selling off property in particular to Mr. Nicholas Blake of Gavelacre. No relationship is stated in that particular indenture although we know that that William Blake is the grandson of Richard Blake the lynen draper as the indenture states that. Tying that family together from Richard Blake to William Blake to William Blake has been fairly straightforward. The question is, to my mind, is Charlou Dolan right in saying that Richard is the son of William Blake and Anne Tutt? This would then bring them into the Pedigree Chart and definitely William Blake is the son of Nicholas not Roger Blake and Mary Baynard. The marriage between William Blake (Charlou has this William as a son of the son of William Blake) and Anne Tutt is on the Pedigree Chart and does perhaps help to define these two families as being separate William Blake lines at Eastontown. The timing is simply not right for Richard Blake lynen draper who died in 1622 to be a son of William Blake and Anne Tutt as their grandfather on the chart (Roger Blake married Mary Baynard). Plus the will of the son of William (of Eastontown) does list the properties from his father's will that he inherited and he married Margaret Hibberd). It was the son of this William that was to have married Anne Tutt! It is perhaps time to revisit some of these Wiltshire wills that I have not yet transcribed but probably that is going to wait for the alphabetical walk through the wills and I am only at Hampshire.

The will of Jone Blake tomorrow will complete the cycle back and I will move on to the next will in line which is for the Blake family at Christchurch.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6th May 2009
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/31/549
Name of Testator: Nic[h]olas Blake
Place: Enham (near Andover), Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 31 May 1547, probated 20 Jun 1547
Read: Electronic copy
Condition: scan, old English writing good, contrast excellent

[Left hand corner] Test[at]or Nicho[las] Blake

1    In the name of God amen In the yere of our Lord god a Thousand fyve hundred
2    Fourtie and sevyn and the last day of May I Nicolas Blake of the p[ar]ishe of Enh[a]m in the Dioc[ese] of Wynchest[e]r
3    being sicke of body but of good and p[er]fite remembrance make and ordeyn this my last will and testament
4    in maner and fourme folowing First I Bequith my soule to almightie god to oure Blessed Lady and to all the
5    Blessed company of heaven. And my body to be buried w[i]t[h]in the Church of Saint Michaell Th[e ]archangell Item
6    I geve to the Trinite Church of Wynchester vj d Item I geve to the church of Andever oon quarter of whete
7    It[e]m I give to Enh[a]m Church a quarter of wheat Item I geve and bequeth to Will[ia]m Blake my eldest sonne
8    the halfe of the Farme of Andever of my Lord Sandys holding which Robert Boswell occupyeth Also I geve
9    and bequeth to the said Will[ia]m the Tenement in Kings Enham of my Lord Sandys holding w[i]t[h] all the La[m]mes
10    lande lying in Andever feld that the said William nowe occupieth and holdith Also I geve to the said Will[ia]m
11    Blake my sonne my Leasse of the Tenement of the Lord Sandys called the olde hall w[i]t[h] all the app[ur]ten[an]cs ther unto
12    belonginge or lying in Knyghts Enh[a]m Also I geve to the said William Blake my free holde in Knyights Enh[a]m w[i]t[h] all
13    the appurten[an]cs there unto belonging Item I geve and bequeth to Edmund Blake my sonne the Leasse of the
14    Farme of Andever called Semers Farme w[i]t[h] all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging and walworth of my
15    Lord Sandys holding And a leasse of a Tenement in Kyngs Enh[a]m which is John Catts gentilman holde w[i]t[h]
16    all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging Also I geve to the said Edmund my sonne my freeholde in Andever
17    with seven acres and a half of arable land that Thomas Wescombe now holdeth with all the rest of myn[e]
18    erable lands grains pastures and com[m]ons of pastures of what nature kynde name and degre soever they be
19    which I do holde and kepe of any man[ner] at the making of this my last wille and testament Also I wille that
20    the forsaid Thomas Wescombe shal[l ]have the forsaid house that he dwelleth in for the terms of thurtie yeres
21    next folowing paying yerely therfor and to agree w[i]t[h] Margaret Blake my wife and Edmund Blake my son[ne]
22    Item I geve to Elizabeth Blake my daughter one hundreth of shepe and Twentie poundes of money at the day of
23    her mariage and her apparill. Item I give and bequeth to Alice my daughter twentie shepe and fyve quarters of
24    barley to be delivered at Michelmas next commyng Item I give to Sir Thomas Upton my curate to pray for my soule
25    and all Christ[ai]n soules x s. Also yf that it fortune Edmund Blake my sonne to dye before he be of lawfull age Then I wille
26    that my freholde w[i]t[h] all the other leases geven and bequethed by me to the said Edmond to remayn to William Blake
27    my sonne his heires and assignes And the goods to remayne to Alice Goodwyn and Elizabeth Blake my daughters equally
28    to be devided betwixt them And if it fortune the said Alice and Elizabeth to dye Then I will the said goodes to be devided
29    betwene the children of William Blake my son Provided also I will that Margaret Blake my wife shall have and
30    kepe all my free landes tenements holds leases with all th[e ]appurtenancs to them belonging which I doe holde of any man[ne]r
31    of man[ner] at the making of this my last will and testament during the terme of her life The residue of my goods and
32    c[h]attalls not gevyn or bequethed I geve and bequeth to Margaret Blake my wife and Edmunde Blake my sonne
33    whom I make and ordeyn myn executors of this my last will and testament Also I make and ordeyn William
34    Hopkins and Willi[a]m Aldred my Overseers of this my last will and testament for to se it p[er]formed according to
35    my mynde above specified Witnesse to this Sir Thomas Upton Curate Stevyn Smyth Will[ia]m Blake w[i]t[h] other
36         Probatum fuit test[ament]um suprascripti defuncti h[ab]entis etc xxth die mensis Juinij Anno D[o]m[in]o Mill[es]imo quingen[tesimo]
37    xlvij [1547] Coram d[o]m[in]o apud London aucto[ritate] d[o]m[in]o n[ost]ri Regis etc Iurament[o] Margarete Relicte executoris in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at[i] In persona
38    Stephe[n] Smyth procur[atoris] sui in hac p[ar]te Ac approbatum et insinuatum Com[m]issa fuit admi[ni]stracio o[mn]i[u]m et singulorom bonorum Jurium
39    Et creditorum d[i]c[t]i defuncti prefat[o] executrici In p[er]sona die proc[urato]ris De b[e]n[e] et fidel[ite]r admi[ni]strando Ac de pleno et fideli In[venta]rio secondo die post
40    festum s[an]c[t]e Anne prox[imum] futur[um] exhibend[o] necnon de plano et vero compoto reddend[o] Ad s[an]c[t]a dei Ev[a]ngelia in debit iuris forma jurat
41    Reservata po[tes]tate Edmund Blake executori etiam in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at cum venerit etc

Will of Peter Blake of Andover - The National Archives, PROB 11/408/228,229, probated 3 Feb 1692

The will of Peter Blake provides more questions than answers in the ongoing story of the Blake family of Andover. He does not name anyone as his sibling other than Dorothy Smyth but rather refers to a number of Blake members as Kinsmen/Kinswoman and these particular ones are Nicholas Blake at Gravelacre and his brother Richard Blake and their sister Jone Blake. Nicholas Blake I am familiar with in terms of his buying property from William Blake (brother to this Peter). But what is his actual line? That is something I am still working on. There is one other problem that I have with Peter Blake and how he fits in.

The Visitation of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1686 lists the genealogy of Peter Blake (late High Sherriff of the County of Southampton aged 66 years in 1686 (will probated 1694) and married to Margaret daughter of Vincent Smith 1st wife and this shows his children as mentioned Peter Blake aged 20 years 1686, Elizabeth aged 18 in 1686 (died by 1689 date of will) and Sarah 17 years in 1686 and he has by then married his second wife Elizabeth daughter of James Gould of Dorchester (by 1686).Since he is 66 in 1686 he was born circa 1619/20 and he was indeed baptized the son of William Blake and Dorothy Madgwick 5 Apr 1619 at Andover. This matches the Visitation and continuing with the Visitation Peter Blake's will is shown as probated in 1694 but his was done in 1692 and his son Peter's will was probated in 1694. Peter is correctly shown as the son of William Blake and Dorothy Madgwick. This William is said to be the son of Richard Blake of Andover and Joane (daughter of William Blake of Easton Town). Then Richard's parents are identified as William Blake of Easton Town and Anne Tutt of Chilbolton. It is this last relationship that I rather question and I think it is in error. This visitation refers you back to the Visitation of London 1634 and Richard Blake of Tower Ward is listed as the son of Richard Blake of Andover and Jone daughter of William Blake of Easton Town.

So far so good but then I look at the Visitation for Blake also in the Visitation of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and it refers back to William Blake of Easton Town and lists different children from William's will which I believe the time has come for me to add a transcription to my blog and that will be tomorrow's effort. The children this William identifies in his will (along with his wife Elizabeth) bear no resemblance to the Visitation. It is the source of my thought that there were two William Blakes living at Easton Town in the same time frame. The Visitation for Blake lists the children of William as John (married to Margaret daughter of William Blake of Easton towne), Peter Blake of the Inner Temple, William Blake of Eston towne and a daughter Agnes married to Roger Hyde. John and Margaret have two children listed namely William Blake of Hales House in Middlesex JP and Sara married to William Rolfe. William of Hales House (married to Mary Beverley) have two children William and John. William Blake has listed as children (no wife mentioned) William married to Anne Tutt and sons Peter and Nicholas. One notes Peter is listed as a brother in this chart and indeed William Blake of Eston Town son of William and Elizabeth and brother to Richard married to Jone Blake has a son William married to Ann Tutt and a son Thomas. Peter and Nicholas remain a mystery. William (married to Ann Tutt) may have left a will though and I need to transcribe that one if it comes to the top of the pile. I shall investigate whether or not I have acquired one. It is possible it is with the Hampshire Record Office.

Now that I have finally transcribed this will of Peter Blake I will  relate it to the information contained in the Visitation and the discussion follows. This particular discussion will go on and on as I work my way through all the wills. With Peter having identified himself as a brother to Dorothy Smyth (which I think could have a double meaning as there were a couple of Smyth families) and the other name mentions I hope to find an answer to the Visitations. It does raise questions that I have thought about before with regard to the Visitation and the will of Richard Blake of Tower Ward (London) already transcribed:


http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/02/richard-blake-will-of-23-mar-1643.html

Richard Blake of Tower Ward, London identifies his sisters Joane Baylie, Dorothie Burningham, Ellen Hinxman, and Margaret Savadge and these are the daughters of Richard Blake and Jone Blake amongst others including Elizabeth Hapgood (deceased), Alice (died young) whom he does not mention. Richard's will is written 23 Mar 1643/44 and probated 19 Dec 1644. Richard was the second eldest son of Richard Blake and Jone Blake and he is identified in the Visitation  as having two young sons in 1634. In his will he does not mention a wife or children so they have likely predeceased him. Locating Richard helps with Peter as Richard was baptized 30 Sep 1593 at Andover and Peter was the son of his eldest brother William (baptism circa . Richard in his will mentions this William's eldest son and his name is Richard although he refers to him as cousin. Richard has a brother Peter and he apparently has five children whom he refers to as cousins rather than nieces and nephews (Richard, Dorothie, Jane, Mary and Joane). The question in my mind at this point is which godson Richard Blake is this - one lives at Andover and the other lives at Longparish. Again he refers to Joseph Hinxman as his cousin but he is his nephew. He also mentions his brother Nicholas Blake of Galligar. Richard at the time of his death is 51 years of age. His will reinforces the will of his father Richard and his mother Jone in naming his siblings. Re reading the will reminds me that I have not yet acquired any new information on Nicholas Blake married to Deborah (unknown) and living at Galligar (one of Richard's brothers). More on this particular topic later but thought I would put down my thoughts for the moment before I move on to the next will to transcribe. Although I rather think I will publish William Blake (probated 1582) next on my blog just to get a handle on the daughter's marriages which helps to solve the riddle since their brothers have tended to be generous towards them in their wills.


Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 26 September 2012
Source:  The National Archives, PROB 11/408/228
Name of testator: Peter Blake
Place: Andover, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:, 9 Sep 1691, codicil 9 Sep 1691, probated 3 Feb 1692
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: script, middle English writing, 17th century
[In margin] 174 T[estato]r
[In margin] Petri Blake

 1    In the Name of God Amen
2    I Peter Blake of Andover in the County of South[amp]ton Esq[uir]e being in
3    good health of body and perfect memory praised be God unto whom
4    I commend my Soule through whose infinite mercie and the
5    merritts of Jesus Christ his onely sonn my Saviour I hope to
6    obteyne Everlasting life and salvation revoakeing all former
7    wills by mee made doe make and ordeine this my Last Will
8    and Testament in manner and forme following My body I
9    committ to the Earth from whence it was taken to be decently
10    buried at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter named
11    willing him that at my funerall he expend not above fifty
12    pounds I desire Mr Benjamin Cullnin if Vicker of the towne
13    of Andever at the time of my death to preach my funerall
14    Sermon for his paines I give unto him as much B[lac]k Worsteed
15    as shall make him a Gowne and to be made into that garment at
16    the charge of my Executor and as much b[lac]k Serge for a Pulpit cloth
17    as shall cost me Tenn shillings and these to be taken out of my
18    Shopp if I shall die possest of it also these to be bought and in mony
19    I give him Tenn shillings and this to be in full of all dues what
20    ever may be claimed or pretended to be due As concerning all
21    other worldly goods which it had pleased God to Invest mee
22    with and I shall dye possessed of I give and bequeath as follow-
23    eth Item to the Ancient poore people of Andever I give and
24    bequeath Tenn pounds to be by my Executor in fiftie daies
25    delivered to the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Towne
26    of Andever for the time being and by them to be distributed
27    to the said poore Item whereas on a Treaty of Marriage between
28    James Gould Sen[io]r of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Esquire
29    deceased Father of my now wife in his life time I was assured
30    by him that his daughter my now wife had of her owne pro=
31    per Estate and in her Custody in money Jewells and Plate to
32    the vallue of Three hundred pounds and that he would give
33    me with her my now wife as her Marriage Portion one thou=
34    sand pounds in money and that he would pay unto me the
35    said summe in some short time after our intermarriage and
36    my said wife assured me she would as she was married have
37    more of her said Father Two hundred pounds all which said
38    summs Amounting to the summe of fifteene hundred pounds
39    in consideration of which said summe of fifteene hundred pounds
40    as a marriage portion to be paid unto me as aforesaid I pro=
41    mised and by my bond did obleige myselfe to settle some lands
42    of Inheritance of the yearly value of one hundred and fifty
43    pounds on my said wife for her Joynture and the heires of my
44    body on her to be begotten Nevertheless although the said sum[m]es
45    of Three hundred pounds nor the summe of Two hundred
46    pounds nor any part thereof hath bin paid unto me nor have I
47    at any time since our Marriage received one penny or penny=
48    worth in money goods or else Except the afore mentioned one
49    Thousand pounds yet being willing and desireous on my part
50    to make good my Agreement promise and obligation I doe hereby
51    give and devise unto my said wife and the heires of my body on her
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52    begotten or to be begotten All that my Farme and Manner of
53    Bently in the Parrish of Mottisfont Lockerly and Enderly in the
54    said County of South[amp]ton now in the possession of Gabriell Hack
55    his Assigne or Assignes of the yearly vallue of Eighty pounds or
56    thereabout and all those my Lands and Tenements in St Mary
57    Borne in the Parish of Downe Hursborne in the possession of
58    Robert Carter his Assigne or Assignes of the yearly vallue of
59    Forty pounds or thereabout and alsoe I doe devise unto my
60    said wife and the heires of my body on her begotten or to bee
61    begotten one Annuity or yearly rent of Thirty pounds lawfull
62    mony of England to bee Issueing and goeing out of all my Lands
63    Tenements and hereditaments lying and being in Andover
64    aforesaid to be paid unto my said wife by my Executor herein
65    after named and to the heires of my body on her lawfully by
66    me begotten or to begotten at the most usuall feasts or termes
67    in the yeare that is to say att the feast of the Annunciation of
68    the blessed Virgin Mary and of St Michael the ArchAngell by
69    even and equall portions the first payment to be made at such
70    of the said Feast daies as shall first happen next after my decease
71    or within fifteene daies of either of the said Feast which said
72    Lands and Annuity soe devised unto my said wife and the heires
73    of her body soe begotten or to be begotten I will and desire may
74    be Accepted and taken by my said wife and her friends in full
75    discharge and satisfaction of all such Lands and joynters as I
76    was ingaged to settle on my said wife and the Issue of her body
77    and in full Barr and Satisfaction of all such Dower and Thirds
78    which my said wife may have or claime to have out of any of
79    my Mannors and Tenements and hereditaments whereof
80    I shall be seized dureing the Coverture Nevertheless Excepting
81    All manner of Timber Trees growing or that shall be growing
82    on the aforedemised Mannors Farme and Lands to be at any
83    time by my said wife or her Assignes cut or felled save for the
84    necessary and needfull repaire of the dwelling houses Barnes
85    and Stables on the same And as A further Testimony of my
86    love I give and bequeath unto my said wife the summe
87    of forty pounds lawfull money of England to be paid unto her
88    by my Executor within six Moneths next and immediately after
89    my death and the best peece of my Plate as she please to make
90    Choice of and I direct that my brother in Law James Gould of
91    Dorchester in the County of Dorset Esquire or such person in
92    whose hands the bond or other security shall be at the time of my
93    death which I gave for setling of the said Joynter and Lands
94    on my said wife and the heires of her body lawfully to be begotten
95    shall deliver up the said bond and security unto my said Execu=
96    tor within three moneths next and immediately after my decease
97    or that all the bequests made in this my will unto my said wife
98    and alsoe to the Issue of her body to be begotten as aforesaid
99    be utterly void Item I give unto my sister Dorothy Smyth one
100    Annuity or yearly Rent of six pounds to be paid unto her yearly
101    that is to say three pounds halfe yearly viz[ a vi]t att the feast of
102    Th[e ]annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary and St Michaell
103    th[e]archangell by even and equall portions the first payment to
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104    begin and to be made on the first of the said feast daies that shall
105    happen next Imediately after my decease or within tenn daies
106    next after either of the said Feasts Item whereas I have severall
107    goods of divers sorts in my Shop if I shall dye possessed of them
108    then I give and bequeath unto my kinsman William Warren of
109    Dorchester in the County of Dorsett and to his brother Peter
110    Warren an Apothecary in London to each of them soe many of
111    the most invendible of the said goods as cost mee when bought which
112    will appeare by the severall marks on them the summe of Sixty
113    pounds to be by my Executors herein after named delivered unto
114    them severally in one or Two Moneths next and imediately after
115    my decease Item I give unto my son in law Edmund Lambert
116    Esquire the summe of five pounds and to my daughter Sarah
117    Lambert his now wife the summe of five pounds to be paid to
118    each of them within three Moneths next and Imediately after my
119    decease Item I give unto my said daughter one Silver Tankard
120    one diamond Ring and her Mother's Wedding Ring if I dye
121    possessed of them to be delivered to her within one month next
122    and imediately after my decease Item I give unto my son Peter
123    Blake whome I doe make Constitute and ordaine Sole Executor
124    of this my Last Will and Testament All my severall Mannors
125    Farmes Lands Mills houses Tenements and hereditaments of
126    what nature or kind soever not here in before by me bequeathed
127    and alsoe the Revertions and Inheritance of the severall Lands
128    herein before by mee bequeathed unto my wife after her death
129    without Issue of her body by me begotten And alsoe all my dwell=
130    ing house household goods Shopp and Shopp goods Merchandize
131    Moneys Jewells Rings Plate Books Books of Account and what=
132    ever else I shall dye possessed of or which is oweing and Re=
133    maineing due unto mee in any Nature of kind whatsoever
134    bee it by Mortgage Bonds bills books Rents or Arreares of
135    Rents And all other my personall Estate whatever not herein
136    before by me bequeathed And my Will and meaning is that
137    this my Executor shall out of my severall manners farmes
138    Lands houses Tenements and hereditaments moneys Jewells
139    Rings Plate goods Merchandizes and other my personall Estate
140    pay satisfie and discharge all my funerall expences bonds and
141    all other my debts be it by bonds bills or other Obligations of
142    what nature or kind soever and all my severall Legacies and
143    bequests herein before by mee bequeathed And my Will and
144    meaning is that my said Executor shall he prove this my will
145    enter into such convenient security by bond to the Overseers of this
146    my last Will and Testament hereinafter named for the surrtene
147    satisfying paying and discharging my funerall expences
148    and bequests herein before by me given and bequeathed and all
149    other my debts of what nature or kind soever be it by bonds or
150    else and for the better enableing him soe to doe I advise that with the
151    Assistance and Advice of the overseers of this my last Will and
152    Testament hereinafter named he expose to sale and doe sell my lands
153    in St Mary Bourne called Chandlers which some times since I
154    purchased of Mrs Rebecca Thornburgh of Andever and the Lords
155    and Trustees of Wallop Esquire and Hopper Esquire which Lands are now in
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156    the severall Tenures and possession of Robert Thorngate James
157    Waight and others Together with my three Coppices with the Barne
158    called the Parsonage Barne and Meadowes and Lands thereto
159    adjoyning And alsoe all that houses and Orchards lyeing and being
160    in Andover in a Streete there called Frogg Lane in the severall tenure
161    of William Beare Nath[aniel] dines And alsoe all those my Tenements
162    in Andover in a Streete there called Brickkill Streete and two Te=
163    nements in a Lane leading to Barbers Mill and the Gardens thereto
164    adjoyning in the severall Tenures of Michaell Crouch Francis Barrett
165    and others And alsoe all my Lease hold and Coppyhold lying and
166    being in Shaborne in the County of Berks[hire] together with the Mill
167    thereto belonging further my Will and meaning is that if my said
168    Executor shall depart this life ere he be Married or make any law=
169    full settlement on the Issue of his body in Marriage Lawfully to be
170    begotten then my Will and meaning is that my daughter Sarah
171    Lambert aforenamed shall be the sole Executrix of this my Last Will
172    and Testament and that she shall possesse and enjoy all my Severall
173    Manners Farmes Lands houses Tenements and hereditaments
174    household goods Merchandizes Shopp goods moneys Jewells Rings
175    Plate Bonds Bills debts books books of Account Rent Arreares of
176    Rent Leases Revertions Mortgages and all other my personall estate
177    of what nature or kind soever to her and the heires of her body
178    Lawfully begotten in Marriage for ever And that shee observe and
179    performe all those severall directions by Bond or else which my said
180    son her brother should have done if hee had been my Executor shee
181    paying and dischargeing my funerall expences Legacies and bequests
182    herein by mee before given and bequeathed and likewise satisfying
183    and paying all my debts by bonds bills or other Obligations whatsoever
184    and that before she prove this my Will if she bee a single person doe
185    enter into such Bond or Obligation to the Overseers of this my last
186    Will and Testament hereafter named as they shall approve of for the
187    due performance of this my said Will and that if she bee at such
188    time Married that then she with her husband shall both enter
189    into such Bond for the due performance of this my said Will
190    as before directed And if it shall happen that both my son and
191    daughter before mentioned shall depart this life before the tyme
192    of my decease and that neither of them my son Peter Blake nor my
193    daughter Sarah Lambert shall leave Issue of their body in Marriage
194    Lawfully begotten Then I give and bequeath all my severall Estates
195    Mannors Farmes Lands Tenements Leases Revercions Houses house=
196    hold goods Merchandizes Shopp goods and all other such personall
197    Estate as I shall dye possessed of to my Right heires forever And
198    that such heire ere he possesse himselfe of the same doe give such
199    sufficient Security as the Overseers of this my Last Will hereafter
200    named shall approve of for the satisfying paying and discharging
201    my funerall Expences and my severall debts on Bond bills and
202    other Obligations with my severall Legacies and bequeaths herein
203    by me before severally given and bequeathed And further my will
204    is that if neither my said son Peter Blake nor my daughter Sarah
205    Lambert shall live and become the Executor nor Executrix of this
206    my last Will and Testament nor have Issue of either of theire
207    bodyes in Marriage Lawfully begotten but that it shall descend to
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208    my right heires that then such heyre shall within one yeare
209    next after my decease pay unto my above named William Warrin
210    the summe of Three hundred pounds of Lawfull money of England
211    And alsoe pay within one yeare next after my decease unto
212    my kinsman Peter Warrin the summe of fifteene hundred
213    pounds of like Lawfull English money And to the above named
214    Mary Smith Elizabeth Warrin and Mary Warrin her Sister to
215    each of them the summe of fifty pounds a peece within one yeare
216    next after my decease And farther my Will is that if it shall hap=
217    pen that the summe of Thirty pounds hereby before given as an
218    Annuity or yearly Rent Issueing and goeing out of all my Lands
219    Tenements and hereditaments in Andover payable to my wife
220    And the heires Male of her body Lawfully by mee begotten or
221    to begotten shall be behinde and unpaid for the space of one
222    Moneth in which the same ought to bee paid as aforesaid that
223    then it shall and may be Lawfull after Lawfull demands thereof
224    made by my said wife and the heires Male of her said body by me
225    begotten their Assigne or Assignes to enter into any or all my said
226    Lands Tenements and hereditaments in Andover aforesaid to
227    distreyne for all or any the said Annuity or yearly Rent hereby
228    before by me given and bequeathed And for the Arreares thereof
229    if any shall be And the distresse and distresses then theire found
230    to Lead drive take carry away and Impound and the same in=
231    pound to deteyne and keepe untill the said Annuity and yearly
232    Rent and the Arreares thereof shall be fully satisfied contented
233    and paid And further my Will and meaning is that if any person
234    or persons to whome I have hereby given any Legacy or bequest
235    shall not be contented and shall endeavour to disturbe alter Change
236    frustrate or make void in any respect or point this my Last Will
237    and Testament and the Contents of the same or any parte thereof
238    that then hee or shee soe offending shall Loose the benefitt of this
239    my Last Will to all intents and purposes and the Legacies to any
240    of them given and devised by the same The Overseers of this my
241    Last Will and Testament I desire to bee my kinsmen and friends
242    Gabriell Whistler of Combe in the County of South[amp]ton Esquire John
243    Pollen of Andover aforesaid Esquire William Hinxman of Ha=
244    therden in the Parish of Andever Gentleman unto each of them I
245    give the summe of three and Thirty shillings and four pence
246    desireing theire acceptance And that they please to be aiding and
247    Assisting to my Executor above named giveing willing and grant
248    ing unto them and the Longest Liver of them full power and
249    Authority to determine deside and end all Ambiguityes doubts
250    questions and debates whatsoever which arise betwixt my said
251    children or any other to whome I have by this my Last Will
252    made my Legacy or bequest Item I give unto the widdow Sarah
253    Crosse the summe of Twenty shillings to bee paid to her within
254    three moneths nexts after my decease In witness whereof I the
255    said Peter Blake to this my Last Will and Testament have sett
256    my hand and Seale the fourth day of June in the first yeare of
257    the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady William and Mary
258    King and Queene of England etc Anno domini one Thousand
259    six hundred eighty nine Item I give to every of my Servants
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260    that shal[l ]be liveing with me at the time of my decease the summe of
261    forty shillings to be paid to each of them in One Moneth next and
262    imediately after my decease Item I give unto Mrs Anne Rutley of
263    Andover widow Twenty shillings to be paid to her in one Moneth
264    next and imediately after my decease Peter Blake [signed] Signed Sealed
265    published and declared to be the Last Will and Testament of Peter
266    Blake In the presence of Rich Baker Roger hall Will Beare
267    Further my Will and meaning is and I doe declare it as my last
268    Will and Testament and to be reputed and taken as a further part
269    of my said Will whereby I have given and bequeathed to my Sonn
270    Peter Blake my severall Mannors Lands Tenements Estates goods
271    and Merchandizes and constituted him my sole Executor on severall
272    provisors in my said will exprest and on his fayleing or not ob=
273    servant and performing of the same I have given and bequeathed
274    to my daughter Sarah Lambert my severall Mannors Farmes Lands
275    Houses and Estates and made and constituted her my Sole Execu=
276    trix of this my Last Will and Testament under such restrictions
277    and conditions as therein and above are exprest my Will and
278    meaning is that if it shall please God my said sonn Peter Blake
279    shall depart this life ere he be possessed of these my Mannors
280    Lands and Estates etc to him by me bequeathed and my daughter
281    Sarah Lambert shall become Executrix to my said Will and that
282    she shall depart this life without issue of her body lawfully begotten
283    That on such faileing or failure I give and bequeath unto my above
284    named Nephews my several Estates Mannors Farmes Lands
285    and houses to be to them and the heires Males of their bodies
286    and the Survivor of them that is to say to William Warrin my
287    said Nephew my Mannor and Farme at Bently Lockerly and En=
288    derly in the Tenure occupation and possession of Gabriell Hack
289    or his Assignes my Farme and lands in St Mary Boarne In the
290    possession of Rob[er]t Thornegat Rob[er]t Carter James Waight and
291    others or theire Assignes these in the Parish of down hursborne
292    my Lands in uppersborne al[ia]s hursborne Tarrent in the possession
293    of William Mills th[e ]elder and William Mills the Younger or theire
294    Assignes my Land and Tenement In Overton in the possession of
295    Edward Chapman or his Assignes with all Woods and underwoods
296    thereto severally belonging from and imediately after the expiration
297    of such Settlement as are on the same made to Elizabeth my wife
298    in Joynture to whome for a farther increase of her joynture over
299    and above what I have in this my last Will and Testament other doe
300    sett and bequeathed as her Joynture and in full of all further claimes
301    and demands as declared and enconditions further my Will and
302    meaning is and by these I farther give and bequeath unto Elizabeth
303    my said wife dureing her naturall life and as an increase of her
304    said Joynture all those my aforementioned Lands in hursborne
305    Tarrant al[ia]s Uphursborne in The tenure and possession of William
306    and William Mills or theire Assignes and farther I give and bequeath
307    unto Mr. Nic Blake of Gavelacre and to Mr Richard Blake his Bro=
308    ther my Kinsman forty shillings to each of them to Mrs. Jone Blake
309    theire sister my Kinswoman Twenty shillings to Sarah Rosdall one
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311    of our Servants maide Twenty shillings to each other Servants maides
312    as shall be resident and dwelling with us at the time of my departure
313    out of this world Tenn shillings To George Willy my Apprentice Forty
314    shillings these severall Legacies and bequests to be paid unto them by
315    my Executor or Executrix which of them it shall fall to be in three
316    Moneths next and imediately after my decease this above written
317    I declare to be part of my Last Will and Testament and by way of
318    Codicill to be Annexed to my said will written with my owne hand
319    by the help of God and by Peter Blake of Andover in the County of
329    South[amp]ton Esquire and published to bee my last Will and Testament
321    being praised be God in good and perfect memory although weake
322    and fraile in body dated the Ninth day of September One Thousand
323    Six hundred Ninety and one witnesse my hand and Seale Peter
324    Blake [signed] Signed Sealed published and declared to be the last Will and
325    Testament of Peter Blake of Andover Esq[uir]e in the presence of James
326    Chator Edward Harding his marke Richard Goodall