Will of Reverend John Blake, Clerk of Yeovilton, Somerset - The National Archives PROB 11/1543/165, probated 3 Apr 1813

The testator is the Reverend John Blake living at Yeovilton. He names his wife Elizabeth but does not name his children in his will. He does appear in the Clergy of the Church of England Database. He did his BA at St John’s College, Cambridge as well as his MA. He was ordained deacon 24 Dec 1801 (Richard Beadon at Gloucester, special ordination 25 Dec 1801 at St George Hanover Square) and ordained priest 7 Oct 1804  (John Fisher at Exeter). He served as Curate at Oare and Preston 1 Apr 1802, then Creacombe 8 Oct 1804 and finally Rector at Yeovilton 20 Nov 1805 to 19 Jan 1813. He died 19 Jan 1813. He was Vicar at Pilton 16 Apr 1812 to 5 Jun 1813. He died at Heavitree. Looking at The Monthly Magazine 1813 (Hants, Berks, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, etc on page 187) Died: The Reverend John Blake, A.M. nephew of the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, rector of Yeovilton, and vicar of Pilton.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=28ZbEaDqUIEC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=reverend+john+blake+Pilton&source=bl&ots=O24XSHjNLP&sig=fuDpEIGb_wXI_iGGjHjbWC65vQE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8QdXUvfJCKH_4APlvoHQDA&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=reverend%20john%20blake%20Pilton&f=false

It would appear that the testator is the nephew of Richard Beadon who was Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1802 until 1824. From his will his wife may be a sister to Charles Steer mentioned as his brother in law.

John Blake (father of the testator) married Agnes Beadon 11 Jun 1777 at Oakford, Devon and according to Wikipedia page for Richard Beadon, Richard was born at Pinkworthy, Devon son of the Reverend Robert Beadon, Rector of Oakford. Agnes was baptized 5 Apr 1745 at Oakford daughter of Robert and Mary (Squire) Beadon. The testator is probably the John Blake baptized 26 Apr 1779 at Chittlehampton, Devon son of John and Agnes Blake.

Children of John and Agnes (Beadon) Blake:

John baptized 26 Apr 1779 at Chittlehampton
Agnes baptized 9 Oct 1785 at North Molton
James baptized 21 Sep 1788 at North Molton
Mary baptized 29 Jan 1792 at North Molton

OPC site for Yeovilton, Somerset, church dedication is St Bartholomew.

Blake families in the parish registers

John (buried 19 Jan 1813, 34 years) and Elizabeth Blake
Elizabeth baptized 4 Aug 1809; married? William Field 26 Jul 1835
John Harold baptized 22 May 1810

It would appear that the John and Elizabeth baptizing children in Yeovilton were perhaps this couple and two children were baptized Elizabeth and John Harold. Elizabeth perhaps married William Field 26 Jul 1835 or perhaps it is the daughter of James and Elizabeth although she would have been just 17 years of age. John, the testator, died 19 Jan 1813 and he would have been 36 years of age.

James (buried 30 May 1845, 70 years) and Elizabeth (buried 18 Jan 1857, 82 years) Blake. James Blake and Elizabeth Hunt married 12 Oct 1813
Thomas baptized 17 Jul 1814
Elizabeth baptized 24 Mar 1816; married? William Field 26 Jul 1835

John (buried 16 May 1852, 55 years) and Charlotte (buried 11 Sep 1881, 80 years) Blake. John Blake and Charlotte Hunt married 2 Nov 1824.
Ann baptized 3 Feb 1825; married? James Kingston 10 Mar 1850
George baptized 3 Nov 1826; buried 22 Nov 1826, 2 weeks 5 days
George baptized 29 Jun 1828; buried 29 Mar 1829, 9 months
William baptized 9 Feb 1830; married Jane Perry 2 Dec 1852
George baptized 2 Oct 1831; buried 17 Mar 1837, 5 years
Mary baptized 11 May 1834
Philip baptized 17 Mar 1837; buried 7 Jul 1839, 2 years
Sarah baptized 19 Jun 1842; buried 6 Sep 1857, 15 years

James (buried 18 Mar 1877, 72 years) and Leah (buried 7 May 1882, 77 years) Blake. James Blake and Leah Gaylard married 1 Jun 1829.
Anna baptized 23 May 1830; buried 9 May 1841, 11 years
Susan baptized 6 May 1832
Jane baptized 28 Sep 1834
James baptized 30 Jul 1837; married? Rebecca Elizabeth Reed 15 Aug 1874 or Anna in the listing below
Elizabeth baptized 11 Jan 1841
Susanna baptized 12 Mar 1843; buried 14 Dec 1856, 14 years
George baptized 8 Oct 1845
Philip baptized 24 Oct 1847

Thomas and Edith (buried 29 Jun 1841, 39 years) Blake
Harriett baptized 11 Jun 1840

William and Jane (buried 22 Jan 1871, 43 years) Blake. William Blake and Jane Perry married 2 Dec 1852.
Mary Anne baptized 18 Jun 1854; buried 16 Sep 1857, 3 years
Elizabeth Jane baptized 22 Feb 1857; buried 14 May 1857, 8 months
John baptized 30 May 1858
Sarah Anne baptized 25 Dec 1860
George buried 6 Jul 1862, 1 week
George William baptized 25 Dec 1864
Philip James baptized 16 Mar 1867; buried 23 Apr 1867, 3 days
Jordan Henry baptized 24 May 1868

James (buried 16 Apr 1878, 43 years) and Anna Blake
William James baptized 11 Aug 1872
Emily Jane baptized 27 Dec 1874
Frederick baptized 25 Dec 1876

Other Blake marriages:
John Hunt and Ann Blake 16 May 1842
John Payne and Ruth Blake 16 Nov 1862

All of the Blake families except for that of the testator are perhaps related. Will wait to see if there is a will for this Blake grouping.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 10 Oct 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1543/165
Testator: The Reverend John Blake, Clerk
Place: Yeovilton, Somerset, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 1812, probated 3 Apr 1813
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy

[Margin]: The Reverend
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 30

1    In the Name of God Amen
2    I John Blake of Yeovilton in the County of Somerset Clerk do make
3    publish and declare this writing to be my last Will and Testament
4    in manner following that is to say First I give and bequeath unto
5    my dear Wife Elizabeth all my Books and such parts of my household
6    Goods plate China pictures Furniture and articles of household as
7    she my said Wife shall select without any estim[a]tion as to the
8    amount or value to and for her absolute use and benefit and I
9    request my dear Wife will signify what part of my household
10    Goods Plate China Pictures Furniture and Articles of household
11    she has selected for her own use by a Memorandum in Writing
12    containing a Schedule containing of my household Goods Plate
13    China Pictures Furniture and Articles of household to be delivered to
14    my Trustees and Executors herein after named or one of them within
15    two Months after my death also I give and bequeath unto my Wife
16    the sum of Fifty pounds to be paid to her by my Executors within
17    one Month after my death I give devise and bequeath all and
18    singular my Real and Personal Estate of what nature or kind
19    soever (except as aforesaid) unto and to the use of my Brother in
20    law the Reverend Charles Steer and Henry Karslake their heirs
21    Exors admors and Assigns for ever nevertheless upon the several
22    trusts and to and for the several ends intents and purposes hereinafter
23    expressed and declared concerning the same that is to say upon Trust
24    that they my said Trustees or the survivor of them or the heirs
25    executors administrators or Assigns of such survivor do and shall with
26    all and singular convenient speed after my death make Sale and
27    absolutely dispose of all and singular my Real Estate and sell and
28    convert into Money all such part or parts of my personal Estate as
29    shall not consist of Monies or Securities for Money and do and shall
30    get in all such part or parts of my Personal Estate as shall consist
31    of Monies or Securities for Money and do and shall in the first place
32    by and out of the Monies to arise by such Sale of my real and personal
33    Estate Monies in the Funds or sum or sums of Money due and owing
34    upon any Security or Securities and to be collected in and received as
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35    aforesaid pay and discharge all my just debts Funeral and Testamentary
36    expences and do and shall in the next place by and out of the same Trust Monies
37    or Funds pay unto the Reverend William Moggridge Stawell and the Reverend William
38    Karslake or the Trustee or Trustees for the time being entitled to receive the
39    same under and by virtue of the Settlement made on my Marriage with my
40    said Wife the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds of lawful Money
41    current in Great Britain to be held by the said William Moggridge Stawell
42    and William Karslake or the Trustee or Trustees for the time being upon
43    the Trusts declared by my said Marriage Settlement of and concerning
44    that sum and in satisfaction of my Covenant in that behalf contained in
45    the same Marriage Settlement and upon the further Trust that they the
46    said Trustees of this my Will or the survivor of them or the Exors or Admors
47    of such surviving do and shall with all convenient speed place lay out or
48    invest the residue of the said Trust Monies in their or his names or name
49    either as ____ or one of the public Stocks of Funds of the Kingdom or on good
50    Real or Personal Security or Securities or on the request and with the consent
51    and approbation of my said Wife to be testified in Writing under her hand and
52    with a view to increase the Amount lay out and invest all or any part of
53    the remaining Trust Monies in the purchase of any Ground Rent or
54    Ground Rents reserved on any Building or other Leases or in the purchase
55    of one or more Annuity or Annuities for several lives or years determinable
56    on a life or lives or for the life or lives of the Grantor or Grantors respectively
57    as for years determinable on his her or their decease and from time to time
58    also to transpose such Securities and make Sale of such Ground Rents
59    and annuities as they or he shall seem expedient and lay out the
60    produce in the same or the like manner and on the like Funds and Securities as the
61    original Trust Monies might have been invested and do and shall from
62    time to time receive and take the Interest dividends and Income of the
63    said Trust Monies Stocks Funds and Securities and pay the same
64    interest dividends and Income unto or otherwise empower permit and
65    suffer my said Wife to have receive and take the same to and for her own
66    use and benefit for and during her natural life and from and after the
67    decease of my said Wife then upon Trust that they my said Trustees and
68    the survivor of them and the Exors and or Admors of such survivor do and
69    shall pay or transfer all and singular the said Trust Monies and the
70    Stocks Fund Securities or property wherein the same shall be invested
71    unto or otherwise stand and be possessed thereof In Trust for all and every
72    my Children living at my decease or born in due time afterwards in
73    equal shares and proportions the share or shares of such of them as
74    shall be a Son or Sons to be a vested Interest or vested Interests in him
75    or them respectively at his or their age or respective ages of 21 years
76    and the share or shares of such of them as shall be a daughter or
77    daughters to be a vested Interest or vested Interests in her of them respectively
78    at her or their age or respective ages of twenty one years or day or
79    respective days of Marriage which shall first happen and to be paid
80    transferred at the same ages or times of the same respectively shall
81    next happen in the lifetime of my said Wife but if the same respectively
82    shall happen in the lifetimes of my said Wife then after the decease of
83    my said Wife unless the same be paid or transferred by and with the
84    direction and consent of my said Wife testified by Writing under her
85    hand by virtue of the power hereinafter for that purpose contained
86    and upon this further Trust that they my said Trustees and the
87    survivor of them and the Exors or admors of such survivors and shall
88    in the mean time and until the said Trust Monies and other
89    property shall become payable and transferrable as virtue of the
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90    trusts aforesaid from time to time receive and take the yearly Interest
91    Dividends and Incomes thereof and pay and apply the same or so
92    much thereof as they or he in their or his direction shall think
93    necessary in and towards the maintenance and education of such
94    Child or Children or other Issues whose share or respective shares of
95    the said Trust Monies shall not have become payable or transferrable
96    as aforesaid and do and shall permit the surplus or residue thereof if
97    any to accumulate for the benefit of such Child or Children or Issue
98    respectively and pay or transfer the same to him or them respectively
99    when his her or their original share or shares shall respectively become
100    payable provided always and my will is that if any one or more
101    of such Child or Children being a Son or Sons shall happen to die
102    under the age of twenty one years leaving Issue lawfully
103    begotten him or them surviving or born within due time afterwards
104    then the share of each children so dying shall go and be paid or
105    transferred to his Issue as Tenants in Common provided also
106    that if any such Child or Children being a daughter or daughters
107    shall die or being a Son or Sons shall die without leaving Issue
108    before the share hereby intended for her him or them shall so
109    become vested as aforesaid then the original and also any additional
110    share of each of such Children so dying of and in the said Trust
111    Monies and property shall from time to time go accrue and
112    belong to the Survivors or Survivor  and others or other of the
113    said Children and the Issue of such of them as shall be then dead
114    leaving Issue as Tenants in Common such Issue of each Child to
115    take as Tenants in Common the share or shares of his her or their
116    deceased parent or parents only and to vest in and be paid and
117    transferred to him her and them if more than one at such ages
118    or times and in such manner as is hereinbefore declared concerning
119    his her or their original share or shares and my Will further is
120    that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Trustee and
121    Trustees for the time being with the direction and consent of my
122    said Wife during her life to be testified in Writing under her hand
123    and after the decease of my said Wife then the said Trustees and Trustee
124    for the time being during the minority or minorities of any Son
125    or Sons living at my death or born in due time afterwards to call
126    in and receive any part or parts of the said Trust Monies not
127    exceeding one half of the then presumptive share or share of each
128    such Son of and in the said Trust Monies and property and to pay
129    and apply the same in placing any such Son or Sons in any
130    Profession or Business or otherwise for his her or their preferment
131    or advancement in the World notwithstanding his or their share
132    or shares of and in the said Trust Monies shall not then have
133    become absolutely vested or payable and upon this further Trust
134    that in case all such of my Children living at my death or born
135    in due time afterwards as shall be a Son or Sons shall die under the
136    age of twenty one years and without leaving Issue lawfully
137    begotten living at his or their death or deaths or born with due
138    time afterwards and all such of them as shall be a daughter or
139    daughters shall die under the age of twenty one years and without
140    having been Married then and immediately upon such failure of
141    issue as aforesaid they my said Trustees and the survivor of them
142    his Exors or Admors do and shall pay and transfer the said Trust
143    Monies or the Securities Stocks Funds or property wherein the same
144    shall be invested or such part thereof whereof there shall have been no
145    such advancement as aforesaid unto my said Wife her Exors Admors
146    or Assigns provided always and I do hereby direct that the receipt or
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147    receipts of my said Trustees or the survivors of them or the Exors admors or assigns
148    of such survivor from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge to
149    the purchaser or purchasers of all or any part of my Real and Personal Estate
150    and to his her and their heirs Exors admors and assigns for so much of the
151    Purchase Money for which such receipt or receipts shall be so given and
152    that after such receipt or receipts such purchaser or purchasers shall be
153    absolutely discharged of and from the same and shall not be accountable
154    or answerable for any loss misapplication or nonapplication of the
155    said purchase Money or any part thereof provided Lastly and I do hereby
156    direct that my Trustees hereby nominated and appointed and such
157    and every of them and the Exors and admors of each and every of them
158    shall be charged and chargeable respectively only for such Moneys as
159    he and they shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the Trusts
160    hereby in him and them reposed notwithstanding his or their giving
161    or signing or joining in giving or signing any receipt or receipts for
162    the sake of Conformity and that any one or more of them shall not be
163    answerable or accountable for the other or others of them but each of
164    them for his own acts receipts neglects of defaults respectively and that
165    they or any of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any
166    Banker Broker or other person in whose hands any part of the said
167    Trust Monies shall or may be deposited or lodged for safe Custody or
168    otherwise in the execution of the Trust hereinbefore contained nor for
169    the indefficiency or deficiency of any Security or Securities Stocks or Funds
170    nor the validity of any Annuity or Annuities in or upon which the
171    said Trust Monies or any part thereof shall be placed out or invested nor
172    for any loss which may happen in the execution of the Trusts
173    aforesaid unless the same shall happen by or through their or his own
174    wilful neglect or default respectively and also that it shall be lawful for
175    my said Trustees and each of them and each of their Exors and admors
176    by and out of the Trust Monies which shall come to their respective
177    hand by virtue of the Trusts aforesaid to retain and reimburse himself
178    and themselves respectively and also to allow to his or their Co Trustee
179    and CoTrustees all such Costs charges and expences as they or any
181    of them shall or may sustain expend or be put into in or about the
182    execution of the aforesaid Trusts or any act transaction matter or thing in
183    any wise relative thereto Lastly I hereby make constitute and appoint
184    the said Charles Steer and Henry Karslake Executors of this my Will
185    and I nominate and appoint my said Wife during her life and after her
186    death then the said Charles Steer and Henry Karslake and the survivor of
187    them to be the Guardian and Guardians of all my Children Born and to
188    be born as to my Sons until they respectively shall attain their respective ages
189    of twenty one years and as to my daughters until they respectively shall
190    attain that age or be Married and I hereby revoke all former and other wills
191    by me at any time heretofore made In Witness whereof I the said John
192    Blake the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament which is contained
193    in five sheets of paper set my hand to the four first sheets and my hand
194    and seal to this fifth and last sheet this __ day of __ in the
195    year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve John Blake
196    Signed sealed published and declared by the said John Blake the Testator as and
197    for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request
198    in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as
199    Witnesses H Reade ______________ Devon Charles Hayman Surgeon
200    Axminster John Taunton Solicitor Axminster
201    Proved at London 3rd April 1813 before the Worshipful Samuel Rudle Magriste d[octo]r
202    of Laws Sur[ogate]s by the oath of Henry Karslake one of the Exors to whom admon was granted
203    being first sworn duly to admin power reserved to Charles Steer the other Exe:

Will of Nicholas Blake, Merchant of Plymouth, National Archives PROB 11/195, Image Reference 556/17708, probated 9 Apr 1646

The Devon Blake family is found in quite a few places in Devon and this early will was a surprise when I first spotted it on the National Archives website. I had thought the family in Devon was principally in the North Devon area. Is this the Nicholas that was Mayor of Plymouth in 1626 just two years before his will was written? From the webpage http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/mayors1600-1700 Nicholas Blake is listed as mayor from 1625 to 1626.

From Notes and Queries page 424 (3rd S.I. May 31, 1962), "There is on record the will of a certain Robert Reade of Linkenholt, HAM, in which the testator bequeaths a portion of his estate to his cousin Nicholas Blake, who it appears was Mayor of Plymouth in 1626..."  Also from the "Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles 1: 1625-1626, by Great Britain. Public Record Office and available at Google: http://books.google.ca/books?id=D_wUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA493&lpg=PA493&dq=%22Will+of+Robert+Reade%22+%2B+Linkenholt&source=bl&ots=XbP0jpcXcP&sig=FxmWcf2bZVPJLH7bBpQIt8P9BvI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6OSjT9m9NKjG6AHIndGNCQ&ved=0CEkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Will%20of%20Robert%20Reade%22%20%2B%20Linkenholt&f=false . Page 493: Dec 10: 70. Will of Robert Reade of Linkenholt, co. Hants: He provides for his wife Mildred, and leaves legacies to his brother Henry Reade, his nephew and cousin Francis, his brother-in-law Francis Windebank, his brother George, and his cousin Nicholas Blake. Dec. 10. 71. Deed of appointment by the said Robert Reade, declaring the trusts on which Francis Windebank, Henry Reade, and Nicholas Blake should hold the manor of Linkenholt, which was conveyed to them on the 7th Dec. 1624. This will is held by the Hampshire Record Office with finding number 1627A/48 and named Will and inventory of Robert Reade of Linkenholt, Hampshire, gent and 1627.

Also of interest is the listing on the Devon Genuki webpages where a will is mentioned for Nicholas Blake with date 1627. Interesting that the date of writing is recorded rather than the date of probate. Also one wonders why is it nineteen years later when probate is taken - Did Nicholas die nineteen years later. By 1646 his Executor is William his fifth son and son of his "second" wife Jane (at least she was not his first wife as he mentions that his older children have a different mother).

In another book about Martin Blake: The Life and Times of Martin Blake it is noted that Nicholas Blake was baptized 23 July 1593 at Plymouth. "The Life and Times of Martin Blake, B.D. (1593 - 1673) vicar of Barnstaple and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, with some account of his conflicts with the Puritan Lecturers and persecutions." The author: John Frederick Chanter, M.A. Rector of Parracombe, Devon. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1910. Reading through the book the author comments "The Blakes of Plymouth appear to have been a somewhat obscure family there; they do not seem to have been in any way connected with the family of Blake of Comb, in the county of Devon and their pedigree is in the Visitation of Cornwall nor are they connected with John Blake, Rector of Charles, North Devon 1568 - 1614." The author then procedes to give a history of Nicholas Blake. The first Blake in Plymouth found by the author was a William Blake whose name appears on a deed 14 Jul 1561 in Plymouth as one of the founders of the old Grammar School. William had a son Nicholas Blake born in 1552 but was semi orphaned and raised by his mother. Nicholas married first Joan Goddard 29 Nov 1590 at St Andrews Church, Plymouth and they had seven sons and seven daughters of whom Martin was one. His first wife was buried 17 Dec 1619 and he married Jane (related to Matthew Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter) and they had two sons and three daughters. Continuing from the text: "Nicholas Blake of Plymouth was, as his son  tells us, a merchant, and prospered, and became mayor of his native town in 1625, which honour, however, was his undoing, as during his year of office he advanced large sums of money to the Government, in connection with the Cadiz expedition, and was unable to obtain repayment from a Government who were always short of money. He had to sell his estates, and was imprisoned for debt. After his release he left Plymouth, and joined his son Martin at Barnstaple, and died there in 1645-6 and was buried near the South Wall of the Parish Church (wills of Nicholas Blake, proved, April 9, 1646, and Martin Blake, dated September 1656). His second wife, Jane Blake, was also buried there, July 16, 1674, at a very advanced age.``

Amazing how much you can find out about a family just searching online in the archived books! I will investigate if this is a Hampshire or Wiltshire Blake line since he is a cousin to Robert Read at Linkenholt HAM. Linkenholt being just 10 miles north of Andover. Another William to discover and this one would have been born in the early 1500s but where was he born! Interesting that I should do this will shortly after the will of William Blake at Speen, Berkshire which is just nine miles north east of Linkenholt and he left his will in 1552. Going sideways and looking at collateral lines can sometimes reveal interesting linking details.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 3 May 2012
Source:  The National Archives PROB 11/195, Image Reference 556/17708  (images by me)
Name of testator: Nicholas Blake, Merchant of Plymouth
Place: Plymouth, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 20 Sep 1627, probated 9 Apr 1646
Read: Electronic file
Condition: old writing, 17th century, bold copy
[In margin] Testam[ent]
[In margin] Nicholai Blake

1    In the Name of God Amen The
2    Twentieth day of September in the third yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne
3    Lord Charles by the grace of god Kinge of England Scotland France and Ireland
4    defender of the faith etc Anno D[o]m[ini] One thousand six hundred twentie seven I Nicholas
5    Blake of Plymouth in the County of Devon Merchant beinge in perfect health and memory
6    praise and laude be given to Almighty god for the same doe make and ordeyne this my last
7    will and testament in writinge in manner and forme followinge First and principally I committ
8    and comend my soule into the handes of Almighty god my maker and to his onely begotten
9    sonne Jesus Christ my saviour and redeemer hopinge and assuredly trustinge by his
10    merritts death and passion onely to have pardon and for remission ofe all my sinnes And my
11    body I committ to the earth from whence it came to be buried in Christian buriall at the
12    discretion ofe my Executors hereafter named. And as touchinge my worldly goods and
13    estate which god of his infinite goodnes hath bestowed on me I give and bequeath as
14    followeth, First I give and bequeath unto Jane Blake my now wife the dwellinge house
15    wherein I now dwell lyinge within the Borough of Plymouth in Streete there called
16    Whymple Street with all the household goods in the same as now standeth duringe hir
17    naturall life Alsoe I give and bequeath unto the said Jane my wife the rent of Catdowne
18    duringe hir naturall life with the invertion of the same ife it fall by hir life tyme to lett and
19    sett at hir best profit and beheese at a rent or tyme for ther lives or one and Twenty yeares
20    in possession soe as the rent be preserved as it is now sett for unto my heire hereafter
21    nominated in this my will Alsoe I give and bequeath unto Jane my wife all the said profit
22    and benefitt ofe my third parte that may be made of my liveinge at higher Toire
23    duringe hir naturall life either for the Rent reserved ife it be leased or in hand to count
24    their lives or one and Twenty yeares reservinge the old rent unto my said heire and
25    in possession Alsoe I give and bequeath unto the said Jane my wife the profitt and
26    benefitt of all those fyve houses or Tenements at Britton side within the B_____h
27    abovesaid mentioned the Landes of Percy too and duringe his naturall life, Alsoe I give
28    and bequeath unto the said Jane my wife the rent ofe one close of Land at the Stone House Poole Pike
29    neare Stone house Mill poole now in the Tenure of John Nicholson with power
30    to sett and lett the same reservinge the yearely Rent that now itt yeildeth if itt
31    happen to fall duringe hir life for one two or three lyves or for one and twenty
32    yeares and that in possession. Item I give unto Judeth Blake my eldest daughter
33    the summe of Tenn poundes sterlinge. Item I give and bequeath unto Robert Blake
34    my third sonne the summe of fifty poundes sterlinge to be paid by my Executor hereafter
35    named within two yeares after my death by Twenty five poundes per Annum.
36    I give and bequeath unto Nicholas Blake my fourth sonne the summe of Tenn
37    poundes sterlinge to be paid by my Executor within one yeare after my decease
38    Item
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39    Item I give and bequeath unto William Blake my fifth sonne begotten on the body
40    of the said Jane my now wife my foresaid dwellinge house lyinge in Plymouth
41    aforesaid in the said Streete called Whymple Streete, And alsoe the aforesaid
42    Tenement called Catdowne withall and singular the Appurten[an]ces thereunto
43    belonginge now in the possession of Phillip Andrew the elder of Plymouth
44    abovesaid Merchant his Assignee or Assignees together with a house or tenement
45    there allso beinge now in the possession of one Robert Rancke Shipwrighte which
46    he holdeth in lease from me. And alsoe the thirde parte of all that the foresaid
47    Tenement called  higher Toire with all and singular the Appurten[an]ces. And likewise
48    all the aforesaid houses or Tenement at Britton side aforesaid sometimes the lands
49    of the aforesaid Priory  with all and singuler the Appurten[an]ces thereunto
50    belonginge. And alsoe all that the aforesaid close of land called Stonehouse
51    poole parke lyeinge neare Stonehouse Mill poole. To have and to hold all and
52    singular the above said bequeathed premisses with there and every of theire
53    Appurten[an]ces unto the aforesaid William Blake and to his heires and Assignes
54    forever to hies and these onely proper use and beheese for evermore Reservinge the
55    abovesaid perticuler estates bequeathed to my said wife in manner as aforesaid
56    And I doe here by make and ordeyne the abovesaid William Blake my full and
57    whole Executor of this my last will and Testament. And I doe nominate and
58    appointe my truley and wel[l ]beloved freindes Thomas Flinch and Stephen Conntie
59    to be my Overseers in the execu[t]ion of the same And for theire paines in that
60    behalfe I give to each of them Tenn shillinges In witnes whereof I have hereunto
61    sett my hand and seale the day and yere first above written Nicholas Blake, Signed
62    Sealed and published in the presence of us James Pruvis Richard Clapper
63    Richard Sisdon