The testator, George Archer Blake, was buried in London at St James Garlick Hill (Garlickhythe) the 24th February 1830. He was born (according to his burial registration) circa 1787. There is a records of his baptism 19 Apr 1790 son of Benjamin Blake at Fort St George, St Mary Church, Madras, India (Find My Past).
A Benjamin Blake was baptized 2 Mar 1789 at Fort St George, St Mary Church, Madras son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Blake.
A John Blake was baptized 19 Apr 1790 at Fort St George, St Mary Church, Madras son of Benjamin and Mary Blake.
A Mary Anna Blake was baptized 12 Nov 1793 at Fort St George, St Mary Church, Madras daughter of Benjamin and Mary Blake.
A Charles Henry Blake was baptized 26 Oct 1795 in Bengal son of Benjamin and Mary Blake.
A James Blake was baptized 2 Sep 1800 at Lucknow, Bengal son of Benjamin Blake.
In the will below the testator mentions a brother Benjamin and a brother Charles Henry (signed Charles Edward in the probate).
There is a burial for Benjamin Blake born 1790 and buried 25 Aug 1833 at the age of 43 years at St Mary Church, Madras.
An online tree at World Connect has been produced by laura foenander where she has the parents of George Archer Blake as Benjamin Blake and Mary Ann Powney. Benjamin said to be born 1754 in England. The death of Benjamin is said to be in 1820 in Poorneah, Bengal. He is said to be the son of John Blake (born circa 1713). Benjamin’s second wife has the name Mary Ann Powney in this tree on World Connect. His first wife appears to be Elizabeth (unknown).
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lauza002&id=I7368
There is a Benjamin Blake baptized 14 Dec 1755 at Walton on the Hill, Surrey son of John and Ann Blake.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 30 Jan 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1769
Name of testator: George Archer Blake, Esquire
Place: District of Poorneah, Province of Bengal in the East Indies
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 7 Feb 1828, probated 7 Apr 1830
[In margin] George Archer Blake, Esquire 12
1 In the Name of God Amen, I
2 George Archer Blake merchant of the District of Poorneah in the province
3 of Bengal in the East Indies but now about to embark from Calcutta to England
4 do make this my last Will and Testament (hereby revoking any other Will or
5 Wills heretofore by me made of subscribed to) in form and manner following
6 Imprimis Being possessed of a half share with Mr Alexander Abberlee (also
7 of Poorneah) who has the other moiety of several Indigo Factories (named
8 Rajah, Bissonpoor and Bimbang) all situated in the said District of Poorneah
9 I will and devise that my said share and interest therein shall be disposed of to
10 the best advantage as soon as my decease shall be ascertained but in conformity
11 with the Terms of an Agreement entered into between me and the said Alexander
12 Abberlee which Agreement (of which he holds a Counterpart Copy) is lodged
13 in the hands of my agents Messrs Alexander and Co of Calcutta and when the
14 proceeds thereof shall be ascertained or collected together with any other money
15 effects or property real or personal belonging to me or that may accrue to me from
16 Bequests or otherwise whether in England or in India I will that the same
17 shall be disposed of as follows 1st I bequeath to Mrs Mary Blake (widow of
18 my lamented Father now in England so much in cash or money as will purchase
19 for her a clear Annuity in the English Funds of Sixty pounds Sterling (60 £ S[terli]ng) per
20 annum for her natural life and I strictly enjoin my Executors or Administrators
21 that the same is without fail purchased immediately and secured to her for her
22 sole use and behoof 2nd I bequeath to Harriet (now Mrs Woodward Wife of
23 Lieut Woodward of the Madras Army) Sister to Celina the Wife of my Brother
24 Benjamin Blake the sum of Five thousand Sicca Rupees (SaR 5000) to be
25 paid to her upon her sole receipt 3rd I give and bequeath to Helen Napier
26 daughter of the late Adam Napier (late a Surgeon in the Service of the hon[ourab]le
27 Company) and a Ward of the Bengal Orphan Institution now in England the
28 sum of five thousand Sicca Rupees (SaR 5000) to be held in Trust by my
29 constituted Executors for her use until she be married when the principal
30 amount together with any Interest that has accumulated thereon shall be
31 paid to her as a marriage portion Should the said Helen Napier die before
32 marriage then the said Sum of SaR 5000 shall go to and be divided between
33 my Brothers Benjamin and Charles Henry Blake and in case of their or
34 either of their deaths to their respective Offspring heirs or Survivors to be
35 shared in equal portions between then 4th I give and bequeath to my
36 Godson Horatio George Cowan Share Son of Thos A Share Esquire of
37 the Hon[oura]ble Companys Civil Service the sum of Three thousand Sicca Rupees
38 (SaR 3000) and if the said Horatio George Share be yet an infant at the
39 time of my decease the said Sum of 3000 Rs shall be paid to his Father or
40 Mother Mrs Emma Share in Trust for his use 5th I give and bequeath all
41 the Residue of my property real or personal remaining after the above
42 mentioned Bequests are paid or disposed of to my Brothers Benjamin Blake
43 now a Captain in the Hon[our]able Company’s Military Service and Charles Henry
44 Blake late of Bengal Indigo planter and now in England to be divided between
45 then share and share alike their lawful Offspring heirs or Survivors
46 respectively It is my meaning and intention that should my said Brothers
47 Benjamin and Charles Henry Blake or either of them die before me or before
48 the operation of this Will this share of the residue of my property that would
49 fall or go to them respectively shall devolve or descend to their respective
50 Children (Sons and Daughters alike) in equal proportions or to whomsoever of
51 them shall be surviving at the time of my decease or of the execution of this
52 my Will and Testament I do hereby constitute nominate and appoint my
53 Brother Charles Henry Blake George Ballard Esquire of Calcutta of the Firm
54 of Alexander and Company and John Archer Esquire of Busear Indigo planter to
55 be Executors of this my last Will and Testament In Witness and
56 confirmation whereof I have hereunto put my Seal and Signature this
57 Seventh day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
58 and twenty eight G A Blake Signed sealed and declared to be the
59 Testators last Will and Testament in the presence of us (Signed) James Hay
60 Jas Meliss Hissen Mohun Bhosr of Baug Barar
61 Additional Clause to my Will from the circumstance
62 of my property and Cash funds being partly in India and partly in England and
63 considering that some time may elapse before the amount thereof might be
64 realized and collected for payment and distribution as bequeathed in any Will I
65 hereby enjoin my Executors hereinbefore named that they will immediately on
66 the realization of every item or sum of my property when the same shall
67 amount to 1000 £ in England and 5000 Rs in India place or invest the same in
68 the Government Funds for security and for the eventual benefit of those concerned
69 in the disposition of my Will and Testament Wittness my hand this 9th day of
70 February in the year of our Lord above written G A Blake
71 Copy of my last Will and Testament left in the hands of Messrs Alexander and Co my
72 agents at Calcutta G A Blake Feby 1829
73 Proved at London with a Codicil 7th April 1830 before the Worshipful
74 Jesse Addams doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of Charles Edward
75 Blake Esquire the Brother and George Ballard Esquire two of the Executors by whom
76 Administration was granted Limited until the Original Will and Codicil or a more
77 authoritive Copy thereof shall be brought into and left in the Registry of the
78 Prerogative Court of Canterbury having been first sworn duly to Administer
79 power reserved of making the like Grant to John Archer Esquire the other Executor
80 when he shall apply for the same The Original Will and Codicil being in the
81 hands of Messrs Alexander and Co the deceaseds Agents at Calcutta in the East
82 Indies as by Acts of Court appears
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Friday, August 15, 2014
Will of John Blake, cordwainer, Kemerton, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, administered 20 Apr 1844
John Blake of Kemerton, cordwainer, is the deceased whose estate will be administered by his son Thomas. In the 1841 Census John Blake is living at Kemerton in the registration of Tewkesbury and aged 75 years (birth year circa 1766). John is listed as independent on the census and he was not born in Gloucestershire. His son Thomas, also living in Kemerton on the 1841 census, is also a cordwainer (born in Gloucestershire) with wife Mary (30 years, not born in Gloucestershire) and Moses Beale 10 years of age (not born in Gloucestershire), Thomas is 35 years of age (birth circa 1806). John is on page 4 and Thomas on page 6 of the census. On the 1851 census at Kemerton, Thomas is listed as 49 years of age (born circa 1802), a cordwainer born at Kemerton, Mary, his wife, is listed as 47 years of age, and born Hampton Worcesterwhire, Moses Beale, his nephew, is 21 years, a cordwainer and born at Bath, Somerset.
On the 1861 census, Mary is a widow. She is 59 years of age, born at Hampton, Worcestershire circa 1802 and living in Kemerton. Living with Mary is her sister Elizabeth Targett 61 years of age, widowed, born at Hampton Worcestershire.
On the 1871 census, living with Mary, still widowed, is her brother William Blake, 71 years of age (born circa 1800 at Hampton, Worcestershire) and a widower. There is a visitor Mary Ann Smith, 11 years of age born at Kemerton. On the 1861 census there is a Smith family next door with a daughter Mary Ann 1 year of age. The mother of Mary Ann, Ann, was born at Eckington Worcestershire.
On the 1851 Census living at Marston Green, Evesham, Saint Lawrence is William Blake, married 53 years of age, born at Hampton, Worcestershire and married to Maria 54 years of age also born at Hampton. William was a maltster, journeyman.
Also on the 1851 Census living at Great and Little Hampton with the Thomas Charles family (Carpenter) is William Blake, Visitor, 77 years of age, born at Hampton, Worcestershire (birth circa 1774).
Great and Little Hampton, Evesham, Worcestershire
Family Search Records
Marriages (Family Search M02109-1)
Thomas Blake and Mary Blake 5 Feb 1838
William Blake and Maria Meadows 7 Mar 1839
This family does appear to be a stray in Gloucestershire. Kemerton is only seven miles from Great Hampton, Worcestershire. There are marriages in Evesham RD – 30 in total – right up to the mid 1960s.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 14 Aug 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: John Blake, cordwainer
Place: Kemerton, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document:20 Apr 1844, administered 20 Apr 1844
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
1 Know all Men by these Presents that We Thomas Blake
2 of Kemerton in the County of Gloucester
3 Cordwainer Henry Brydges of Tewkesbury in the same
4 County Currier and William Firkins of Mitton Lodge
5 in the County of Worcester Gentleman
6 are held and firmly bound unto James Henry Lord
7 Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and his successors
8 in the sum of Two hundred pounds
9 of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord
10 Bishop or his Successors or to his or their certain Attorneys Executors Admins-
11 trators or Assigns To which Payment well and truly to be made We oblige ourselves
12 and each of us by himself in and for the whole our and
13 each of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by
14 these Presents Sealed with our Seals dated the twentieth day of
15 April in the seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
16 Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United
17 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith Etc And
18 in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fourty four
19 The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above bounden
20 Thomas Blake Administrator of all and singular the Goods
21 Chattles and Credits of John Blake deceased do
22 make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods
23 Chattles and Credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the Hands
24 Possession or Knowledge of him the said Thomas Blake
25 or into the Hands and Possession of any Person or Persons for
26 him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry
27 of the Consistory Court of Gloucester at or before the
28 last day of September next ensuing and the same Goods
29 Chattles and Credits and all other the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased
30 at the time of his death which at anytime after shall come to the hands or Possession
31 of the said Thomas Blake or into the hands
32 and Possession of any other Person or Persons for him do well and truly administer
33 according to Law And further do make or cause to be made a true and just Accompt
34 of his said Administration at or before the last day of April 1845
35 and all the Rest and Residue of the said Goods Chattles and Credits which shall be
36 found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompts the same being first
37 examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said
38 Court shall deliver and pay unto such Person or Persons respectively as the said
39 Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to the true Intent and
40 Meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and
41 twentieth Years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second
42 entituled an Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates which limit and appoint
43 And if it shall hereafter appear that any last Will and Testament was made by the
44 said deceased and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into
45 the said Court making Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the
46 said Thomas Blake
47 above bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the said Letter of
48 Administration Approbation of such Testament being first had and made in the
49 said Court then this Obligation to be void or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
50 Signed Sealed and delivered
51 in the presence of
52 Tho[ma]s Woodwards
53 Thomas Blake
54 Henry Brydges
55 William Firkins
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56 The 20th April 1844
57 Appeared personally Thomas Blake of
58 Kemerton in the County of Gloucester
60 Farmer and alleged upon oath that
61 John Blake late of Kemerton aforesaid
62 deceased died on the 30th day of March now
63 last past Intestate Widower leaving
64 Goods Chattels and Credits wholly within the
65 Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol under
66 the value of One Hundred pounds That
67 he is the only Child and next of kin of
68 the said deceased That he will well and
69 faithfully administer the Goods Chattels
70 and Credits of the said deceased and render
71 an Inventory and Account etc.
72 Wherefore he prayed that Letters
73 of Admon of all and singular the
74 goods chattels and credits of the
75 said deceased might be granted and
76 committed to him upon giving
77 such good and sufficient Security
78 as in this behalf is required and
79 so forth
80 Let Admon pass as
81 prayed
82 Edwin Maddy
83 ________
84 Sworn Under
85 £100 (no Leaseholds)
86 Before us
87 Edwin Maddy
88 Surrogate _______
On the 1861 census, Mary is a widow. She is 59 years of age, born at Hampton, Worcestershire circa 1802 and living in Kemerton. Living with Mary is her sister Elizabeth Targett 61 years of age, widowed, born at Hampton Worcestershire.
On the 1871 census, living with Mary, still widowed, is her brother William Blake, 71 years of age (born circa 1800 at Hampton, Worcestershire) and a widower. There is a visitor Mary Ann Smith, 11 years of age born at Kemerton. On the 1861 census there is a Smith family next door with a daughter Mary Ann 1 year of age. The mother of Mary Ann, Ann, was born at Eckington Worcestershire.
On the 1851 Census living at Marston Green, Evesham, Saint Lawrence is William Blake, married 53 years of age, born at Hampton, Worcestershire and married to Maria 54 years of age also born at Hampton. William was a maltster, journeyman.
Also on the 1851 Census living at Great and Little Hampton with the Thomas Charles family (Carpenter) is William Blake, Visitor, 77 years of age, born at Hampton, Worcestershire (birth circa 1774).
Great and Little Hampton, Evesham, Worcestershire
Family Search Records
Marriages (Family Search M02109-1)
Thomas Blake and Mary Blake 5 Feb 1838
William Blake and Maria Meadows 7 Mar 1839
This family does appear to be a stray in Gloucestershire. Kemerton is only seven miles from Great Hampton, Worcestershire. There are marriages in Evesham RD – 30 in total – right up to the mid 1960s.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 14 Aug 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: John Blake, cordwainer
Place: Kemerton, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document:20 Apr 1844, administered 20 Apr 1844
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
1 Know all Men by these Presents that We Thomas Blake
2 of Kemerton in the County of Gloucester
3 Cordwainer Henry Brydges of Tewkesbury in the same
4 County Currier and William Firkins of Mitton Lodge
5 in the County of Worcester Gentleman
6 are held and firmly bound unto James Henry Lord
7 Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and his successors
8 in the sum of Two hundred pounds
9 of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord
10 Bishop or his Successors or to his or their certain Attorneys Executors Admins-
11 trators or Assigns To which Payment well and truly to be made We oblige ourselves
12 and each of us by himself in and for the whole our and
13 each of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by
14 these Presents Sealed with our Seals dated the twentieth day of
15 April in the seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
16 Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United
17 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith Etc And
18 in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fourty four
19 The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above bounden
20 Thomas Blake Administrator of all and singular the Goods
21 Chattles and Credits of John Blake deceased do
22 make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods
23 Chattles and Credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the Hands
24 Possession or Knowledge of him the said Thomas Blake
25 or into the Hands and Possession of any Person or Persons for
26 him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry
27 of the Consistory Court of Gloucester at or before the
28 last day of September next ensuing and the same Goods
29 Chattles and Credits and all other the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased
30 at the time of his death which at anytime after shall come to the hands or Possession
31 of the said Thomas Blake or into the hands
32 and Possession of any other Person or Persons for him do well and truly administer
33 according to Law And further do make or cause to be made a true and just Accompt
34 of his said Administration at or before the last day of April 1845
35 and all the Rest and Residue of the said Goods Chattles and Credits which shall be
36 found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompts the same being first
37 examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said
38 Court shall deliver and pay unto such Person or Persons respectively as the said
39 Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to the true Intent and
40 Meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and
41 twentieth Years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second
42 entituled an Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates which limit and appoint
43 And if it shall hereafter appear that any last Will and Testament was made by the
44 said deceased and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into
45 the said Court making Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the
46 said Thomas Blake
47 above bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the said Letter of
48 Administration Approbation of such Testament being first had and made in the
49 said Court then this Obligation to be void or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
50 Signed Sealed and delivered
51 in the presence of
52 Tho[ma]s Woodwards
53 Thomas Blake
54 Henry Brydges
55 William Firkins
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56 The 20th April 1844
57 Appeared personally Thomas Blake of
58 Kemerton in the County of Gloucester
60 Farmer and alleged upon oath that
61 John Blake late of Kemerton aforesaid
62 deceased died on the 30th day of March now
63 last past Intestate Widower leaving
64 Goods Chattels and Credits wholly within the
65 Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol under
66 the value of One Hundred pounds That
67 he is the only Child and next of kin of
68 the said deceased That he will well and
69 faithfully administer the Goods Chattels
70 and Credits of the said deceased and render
71 an Inventory and Account etc.
72 Wherefore he prayed that Letters
73 of Admon of all and singular the
74 goods chattels and credits of the
75 said deceased might be granted and
76 committed to him upon giving
77 such good and sufficient Security
78 as in this behalf is required and
79 so forth
80 Let Admon pass as
81 prayed
82 Edwin Maddy
83 ________
84 Sworn Under
85 £100 (no Leaseholds)
86 Before us
87 Edwin Maddy
88 Surrogate _______
Friday, May 16, 2014
Will of Richard Blake, gentleman, Bristol, Gloucestershire - The National Archives PROB 11/963/393, probated 18 Feb 1771
Richard Blake the Testator lives at Bristol. He asked to be buried at the parish Church of Saint Werburgh and so the earlier blog on the memorials for the Blake family in Gloucestershire locates him very nicely:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Hence he is the son of Richard Blake of Chipping Sodbury and Mary (unknown) who were buried at Chipping Sodbury. He had uncles Joseph and Samuel both died in 1715. He was married to Mary Greenway and five of their children died as infants. The surviving children – two daughters – mentioned in the will below Susannah and Hannah.
Names mentioned in the will below:
Richard Blake, gentleman, Bristol, testator
Mary Blake, wife
W. Graton, Bristol, tenant
Phillippa Palmer, Bristol, tenant
____ Thomas, Bristol, tenant
Mrs. Godwin, Bristol, tenant
Mr. John Larkin, surgeon, Bristol, tenant
Mr. John Wallis, Bristol, tenant
Mr. Samuel Pye, tenant, deceased
Mr. Thomas Symons, attorney at law, Bristol, tenant
Mr. John Waddix, Bristol, tenant
Mrs. Sarah Pye, Bristol, widow, tenant
Reverend Richard Woodward, Dean of Clogher, Ireland, son in law, executor
Mr. John Derverell, Bristol, gentleman, son in law, executor
Mr. William Blake, Bristol, merchant, gentleman, friend, executor
George Tyndell, Bristol, Esquire, Friend, Indentee
Mrs. Jane Rudge, cousin
John March, late servant
Rebecca Mead, servant
Mrs. Mary Adlam, Hembury
Mr. Joseph Haynes, Esquire, Weck
Mr. Thomas Haynes, Weck, father of Joseph
Elizabeth Haynes, sister to Joseph
Richard Haynes, son of Thomas
Thomas Haynes, son of Thomas
Christopher Haynes, son of Thomas
Mr. William Palmer, surgeon, Bradford, Wiltshire
Frances Palmer, daughter of William
Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of William
Mrs. Ann Baker, Bristol
____ Greenway, widow of John Greenway, cousin
John Greenway, father of Joseph, deceased
Joseph Greenway, son of widow Greenway
Christopher Blake, St Philip and Jacob, kinsman
Eleanor Anthony, Bristol or Bedminster, Somerset, kinswoman
Thomas Anthony, Bristol or Bedminster, Somerset, husband of Eleanor
Mr. Charles Harwood, schoolmaster, Bristol
Hester Lamb, deceased
John Lamb, husband of Hester, mason, Bath
Richard Blake, son of Mr. William Blake, godson
Susannah Woodward, Ireland, wife of Richard Woodward, daughter
Hannah Deverell, Bristol, wife of John Deverell, daughter
Robert Hale, Gentleman, Indentee
Francis Brown, Merchant, Indentee, deceased
Francis Ward, Bristol, gentleman, Indentee, witness
Mr. Thomas Paty, Master Builder, Bristol
Philip Bowyer, hooper, Bristol, tenant
John Millett, hatter, Bristol, tenant
William Tucker, victualler, Bristol, tenant
_____ Terrel, mealman, Bristol, tenant
Nicholas Simpson, apothecary, Bristol, tenant
______ Powell, hooper, Bristol, tenant
Samuel Gaines, carpenter, Bristol, tenant
John Gresley, junior, witness
George Rogers, witness
Mr. William Blake is somewhat of a mystery. The testator is godfather to his son Richard. There is also a Christopher Blake, kinsman, mentioned in the will. Eleanor Anthony also his kinswoman. His cousins the Greenway family are also mentioned. Mrs. Jane Rudge is also a cousin.
The assumption that this Richard is a grandson of Ambrose Blake of Pinhills does seem to be reasonable given some of the information related in the blog of Christopher Blake’s will:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-christopher-blake-yeoman.html
Christopher in that will mentions his cousins John Blake, William Blake (deceased) and Joseph Blake all of Tetbury and Edward Blake and Henry Blake of London. Usually one does have relatives as godparents to one’s children (but not always) and this was perhaps more the case in days gone by. This line though has daughtered out; no Blake descendants of this Richard are named.
The will of William Blake of Bristol (1792) is to come and I wonder if the first memorial mentioned in the blog on the Memorials to the Blake family of Gloucestershire pertains to this family:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Richard Blake son of William and Rebecca Blake died in 1829 aged 69 (born circa 1760). This Richard would have been 11 years of age when this will was written and the son of a William Blake of St Stephen’s Church, Bristol. This Blake family uses the Calne Blake family crest as well. I wondered in this earlier blog if they were from Cornwall but finding this new information I need to investigate William and Rebecca Blake and see what I can learn about their ancestry. William’s will is to come and was probated in 1792.
Still to do the wills of Robert Blake 1849, Robert Blake 1854 and then William Blake 1792 and William Blake 1853 and Gloucester PCC wills will be completed. I do however have 37 wills that were from Bristol Diocese and a few of them are older wills. I think that I should move to these wills next.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 20 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/963/393
Testator: Richard Blake, gentleman
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 3 Jul 1770, probated 18 Feb 1771
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Richard
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Richard Blake of the City of Bristol Gentleman Do
3 make this my last Will and Testament in manner following
4 (that is to say) First and principally I commend my Soul
5 into the hands of Almighty God hoping through the merits
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6 Mediation and Intercession of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer
7 Jesus Christ to obtain Everlasting life And as to my Body
8 it is my Will that the same Shall be intered in the
9 Parish Church of Saint Werburgh in the said City of
10 Bristol on the third Day next after my Decease And
11 I Direct that a Decent monument shall be made and put
12 up and erected for me in the same Church as my Wife
13 Shall Direct within Six months next after my decease,
14 as to my Worldly Estate I dispose thereof as follows, to
15 wit, I Give the Sum of Fifty pounds of lawful money of
16 Great Britain To the Church Wardens of the Said
17 Parish of Saint Werbough for the time being to be
18 placed out at Interest and the Interest thereof to be
19 applied from time to time for ever by the Minister
20 Churchwardens and Vestry of the same Parish towards
21 Cloathing such poor people yearly of the said parish as
22 they shall see first the same poor people being members
23 of the Church of England Item I Give to the Minister and
24 Churchwardens for the time being of the parish of
25 Winterbourn in the County of Gloucester the Sum of
26 Fifty pounds of like lawful British Money to be by them
27 placed out at Interest and the Interest therefrom arising
28 to be laid out in Bread and Given by the Minister and
29 Churchwardens of the said Parish of Winterbourn for the
30 time being To the poor of that parish at Christmas
31 yearly for ever Item I Give To the Minister and Church
32 Wardens for the time being of the Parish of Chipping
33 Sodbury in the County of Gloucester aforesaid the Sum of
34 Fifty pounds of like lawful British Money to be by
35 them placed out at Interest and the interest therefrom arising to be laid
36 out in Bread and Given by the Minister and Churchwardens
37 of that parish for the time being To the poor of that
38 parish at Christmas yearly for ever Item I Give the
39 Sum of One hundred pounds of lawful British Money to
40 my Wife for her to bestow and Give the same to such poor
41 people as she shall think fit Item I give to my much
42 Esteemed and beloved Wife the Sum of Three hundred
43 pounds of lawful British money to be paid to her
44 within ten Days next after my Decease and I also Give
45 unto her all and Singular my Leasehold Goods Linen
46 plate Rings and Watches Item I Give unto her my said
47 Wife my two messuages or Tenements with their appurts
48 Situate in Queen Square in Bristol aforesaid the one of them
49 now in my own occupation and the other of them adjoining
50 thereto now in the Occupation of W Graton
51 And also my two Messuages
52 or Tenements situate and being the one in Cem Street the
53 other in Small Street in the parish of Saint Werburgh
54 aforesaid and in the Occupations of Phillippa Palmer
55 and late of _______Thomas And also my Two Messuages
56 or Tenements on Stonyhill in the parish of Saint Augustine
57 the less in the said City of Bristol and in the Several
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58 Occupations of Mrs ______ Godwin and Mr John Larkin
60 Surgeon and also all these yearly Sums or Chief Rents
61 Issuing and payable to me out of certain plots of Ground
62 on Stony hill aforesaid by me Granted to Mr John Wallis
63 Mr Samuel Pye deceased and Mr Thomas Symons Attorney
64 at Law respectively and on which certain messuages with
65 their respective Appurts have been erected and Built and
66 are now in the Several Occupations of the said Mr John
67 Wallis Mr Thomas Symons Mr John Waddix and Mrs Sarah
68 Pye Widow And also all my Lands at Well Freehold as
69 Leasehold Situate lying and being in Oldland Barnam
70 and Bitton or one of them in the County of Gloucester
71 and also my Lease at Rendaleshire in the Parish of
72 Winterborn in the said County of Gloucester with its
73 appurts adjoining to my Farm house there To have
74 and To hold all and Singular the said Messuages Lands
75 Chief or Reserved Rents Heredits and premises unto
76 her my Said Wife and her assigns in manner following
77 (that is to say) As for such of my said Several and
78 respective Messuages and Lands as are Freehold for
79 and during the Term or her normal life and as for such
80 of them as are Leasehold or which I hold for Terms
81 of Years for and during So many years as She my said
82 Wife shall or may happen to live Item I Give to
83 my two Sons in Law the Reverend Richard Woodward Dean of
84 Clogher in the Kingdom of Ireland and John Deverell
85 of the City of Bristol Esquire and William Blake of the
86 said City of Bristol Merchant and to the Survivors and
87 Survivor of them his Executors Admors and Assigns the
88 Sum of four thousand pounds of lawful British money
89 Upon Trust to place the Same out at Interest (with the
90 approbation of my said Wife upon the best Security of
91 Mortgage Double or Treble Bond or Bonds that can be
92 Got for the same or otherwise on Government Security
93 and the Interest or Dividends therefrom arising from time
94 to time to pay unto her my Said Wife for and during so
95 many years as She shall or may happen to live Item
96 I further Give and bequeath unto her my Said Wife the
97 Sum of Two thousand pounds of lawful British Money
98 Item I give to my Friend George Tyndell of the said
99 City of Bristol Esquire the Sum of Twenty pounds of
100 like Money To my Cousin Mrs Jane Rudge the Sum of
101 Ten pounds of like Money To my late Servant John
102 March the Sum of Ten pounds of like money To my
103 faithful Servant Rebecca Mead the Sum of Two
104 hundred pounds of like money and a Reward for her Care
105 of me in my Several Illnesses And I Give unto her
106 and to each Domestick Servant as Shall live with me
107 at the time of my Decease the Sum of Five pounds
108 a piece for mourning I Give to Mrs Mary Adlam of
109 Hembury in the County of Gloucester aforesaid the Sum of
110 Ten pounds of like lawful British Money Item I give to Mr
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111 Joseph Haynes (Son of Thomas Haynes of Weck in the said
112 County of Gloucester Esquire and to Elizabeth Haynes Sister
113 of the Said Joseph Haynes the Sum of Ten pounds apiece
114 of like lawful British Money Item I Give to the said
115 Thomas Haynes and to his three Sons Richard Thomas and
116 Christopher Haynes a Mourning Ring each Item I Give
117 to my Worthy Friend Mr William Palmer Surgeon at
118 Bradford in the County of Wilts a Mourning Ring and to his
119 two Daughters Frances and Elizabeth Palmer the Sum
120 of Ten pounds apiece of like lawful British Money
121 Item I Give to Mrs Ann Baker living in Milk Street
122 Bristol and to my Cousen Greenway Widow of John
123 Greenway deceased and to her Son Joseph Greenway the
124 Sum of Ten pounds a piece of like lawful British money
125 Item I Give to my Kinsman Christopher Blake of the
126 parish of Saint Philip and Jacob in the County of Gloucester
127 the Sum of Fifty pounds of like money and
128 To each of the Children of the said Christopher Blake
129 I Give the Sum of Ten pounds of like Money to be paid to
130 them on their Attaining their respective ages of Twenty
131 one years Item I Give to my Kinswoman Eleanor
132 Anthony Wife of Thomas Anthony of the said City of Bristol
133 or of the Parish of Bedminster in the County of Somerset
134 the Sum of Fifty pounds of like Money to be paid and
135 applied To and for her own Sole and Separate use and as She
136 Shall Direct Item I Give to Mr Charles Harwood of the
137 City of Bristol Schoolmaster the Sum of Twenty pounds of like
138 Money Item I Give to each of the Children of Hester Lamb
139 late Wife of John Lamb of the City of Bath Mason the Sum
140 of Twenty pounds of like Money To be paid to them on there
141 respective attaining the Age of Twenty one Years Item
142 I Give to my Godson Richard Blake son of Mr William Blake
143 the Sum of Twenty pounds of like Money Item I Give unto
144 each of my Sons in Law the said Richard Woodward and
145 John Deverell the Sum of One thousand pounds apiece
146 of like lawful British Money as tokens of my Regard
147 for them All which said Several Legacies by me Given
148 (Except such as I have herein before appointed times for
149 Payment thereof respectively I Will Shall be paid
150 within the Space of Twelve Months next after my decease
151 Item All the Rest residue and Remainder of my Estate both
152 Real and Personal Moneys Securitys for Money Goods Chattels
153 and Effects whatsoever as also my said Messuages and Lands
154 and the Said Sum of Four thousand pounds (the Interest or
155 Income whereof I have Given to my Wife as aforesaid for
156 her life) after the Death of her my Said Wife And all other
157 my Estate of what nature kind or Sort whatsoever or
158 wheresoever Situate Standing and being at the time of my
159 Decease (other than and Except my Messuages Lands Tenements
160 and hereditts Situate Standing and Being in the parish of Saint
161 Augustine Saint Leonard Parish included and Saint James herein after
162 Taken notice of and by me Given and disposed of for the Trusts
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163 Intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned) I Give Devise and
164 bequeath unto my said Sons in Law Richard Woodward John
165 Deverell and William Blake To hold to them and the Survivors
166 and Survivor of them his heirs Executors Admors and Assigns
167 To for and upon the Several Trusts Intents and Purposes herein
168 after Expressed Subject nevertheless to the proviso hereinafter
169 mentioned (that is to say) Upon Trust to Let and Set my said
170 Freehold and Leasehold Messuages Lands and hereditts for
171 Such Term or Terms of Years and they the said Richard
172 Woodward John Deverell and William Blake or the
173 Survivors or Survivor of them his heirs Executors or
174 Admors shall soon meet at the best yearly Rent and
175 Rents as can be got for the same and to receive such the
176 Rents and Profits thereof and to put and place my
177 personal Estate and Moneys arising therefrom out at
178 Interest and to receive the Income Interest and produce
179 thereof and to pay and Apply One moiety of the net
181 Rents Interest Income and produce of such Freehold and
182 Leasehold Messuages Lands and hereditts and personal Estate
183 To my Daughter Susannah the Wife of the said Richard
184 Woodward and her Assigns for and during the Term of
185 her natural life or for so many years as She shall happen
186 to live and to and for her Sole and Separate Use and from
187 and Immediately after her Decease Upon Trust to pay and
188 Apply such Said Money of the Rents Interest Income and
189 produce To or for the Maintenance Breeding up and Education
190 of all and every the Children if more than one and if but
191 one then of the only Child of her my said Daughter Susannah
192 as She shall leave behind her at her Decease Until they
193 he or She shall respectively attain the Age of Twenty
194 one years Or if Daughters or a Daughter that age or
195 Days or day of marriage which shall first happen and upon
196 such said Children (if more than one) attaining their respective
197 Ages of Twenty one years or if Daughters or a Daughter
198 there age or Days or Day of Marriage Then Upon Trust
199 To Convey assign and make over the Moiety of my Said Real
200 Estates and the moiety of my said Personal Estate To Such
201 of the Children of her my said Daughter Susannah (if more
202 than one) in such parts Shares and proportions and for such
203 Estate or Estates and Interest as She my said Daughter
204 Susannah by any Deed or Writing Deeds or Writings to be by
205 her Executed in the presence of and attested by two or more
206 Credible Witnesses Shall limit or Appoint the same and if
207 but one Child of her my Said Daughter Susannah Then to
208 such only Child his or her heirs Executors or Admors and
209 in Case no such Limitation or Appointment shall be made
210 and Executed by her my said Daughter Susannah Then
211 Upon Trust To Convey Assign and make over the said
211 Moiety of my Said Real Estates and the Said Moiety of my
213 Said Personal Estate To such of the Said Children of her
214 my Said Daughter Susannah (if more than one) in such parts
215 Shares and proportions and for such Estate or Estates and Interest
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216 as he my Said Son in Law the Said Richard Woodward by any
217 Deed or Writing Deeds or Writings to be by him Executed in the
218 presence of and attested by two or more Credible Witnesses
219 shall limit or appoint the Same and if but one Child of
220 her by my Said Daughter Susannah Then to Such only Child his
221 or her heirs Executors or Admors And in Case no such
222 Limitation or Appointment Shall be made and Executed by
223 him the said Richard Woodward Then Upon Trust to apply
224 the Income of the Said Moiety of my said Real Estates and
225 the Said Moiety of the Income of my Said personal Estate
226 for or towards the Maintenance and Education of all and every
227 the Children of my Said Daughter Susannah if more than one
228 and if but one Then for the maintenance of Such only Child
229 until they he or She shall respectively attain the Age of
230 Twenty one or if Daughters or a Daughter Days or Day
231 of Marriage which Shall first happen And on such Childrens
232 attaining their respective Ages of Twenty one Years or if Daughters
233 or a Daughter Days or Day of Marriage which shall first
234 happen Then Upon Trust to Convey assign and make over to
235 such Child so attaining the Age of Twenty one Years or if
236 Daughters or a Daughter Days or Day of Marriage which
237 Shall first happen his or her heirs Executors or Admors
238 his or her Share and Interest in and to the Said Money of
239 my Said Real and personal Estate according to the nature
240 of the Estate So to be Conveyed and made over Provided
241 Nevertheless and I Do hereby Declare it to be my Will that
242 in Case any or either of the Said Children of my Daughter
243 Susannah Shall happen to die before his her or their attaining
244 the Age of Twenty one years of if Daughters or a Daughter
245 before her or their attaining that Age or Days or Day of
246 Marriage Then I will that the Share or Interest of such
247 Child So dying of and in the Said Moiety of my said Residuary
248 Real and Personal Estate Shall go to the Survivors or
249 Survivor of Such Children their his or her heirs Executors
250 or Admors according to the nature of my Estate hereby before
251 mentioned and Devised And in Case my Said Daughter Susanna
252 Shall Dye leaving no Child at her Decease Then I give
253 the Said Moiety of my Said Residuary Real and personal
254 Estate To the use of such person or persons and for such
255 Estate and Interest and in Such shares and proportions
256 as She by any Deed or Writing under her hand and Seal to
257 be attested by two or more Credible Witnesses Shall appoint
258 for want thereof to her heirs Executors and Admors
259 And Also Upon Trust in them my Said Sons in Law Richard
260 Woodward John Deverell and William Blake their
261 heirs Executors and Admors reposed to pay and apply the
262 other Moiety of the net Rents Interest Income and produce
263 of such my said Residuary Real and personal Estate To
264 my Daughter Hannah the Wife of the Said John Deverell
265 and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural
266 life or for so many years as she shall happen to live and to
267 and for her Sole and Separate Use and from and Immediately
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268 after her Decease Upon Trust to pay and apply such Said
269 Moiety of the said Rents Interest Income and Produce
270 To or for the Maintenance Breeding up and Education of all and
271 every the Children if more than one and if but one Then of
272 the only Child of her my said Daughter Hannah as she shall
273 leave behind her at her Decease until they he or she shall
274 respectively attain the Age of Twenty one Years or if Daughters
275 or a Daughter that age or Days or Day of Marriage which
276 Shall first happen and upon such Said Childrens (if more
277 than one) attaining their respective Ages of Twenty one
278 Years or if Daughters or a Daughter that Age or Days
279 or Day of Marriage Then Upon Trust to Convey Assign and
280 make over the Moiety of my Said Real Estates and the
281 Moiety of my said Personal Estate To Such of the Children
282 of her my Said Daughter Hannah (if more than one) in such
283 parts Shares and proportions and for such Estate or Estates and
284 Interest as She my Said Daughter Hannah by any Deed or
285 Writing Deeds or Writings to be by her Executed in the presence
286 of and attested by two or more Credible Witnesses shall
287 limit or appoint the Same and if but one Child of her my
288 said Daughter Hannah Then to such only Child his or her
289 heirs Executors or Admors And in Case no Such Limitation
290 or Appointment Shall be made and Executed by her my
291 Said Daughter Hannah Then Upon Trust to Convey
292 assign and make over the Said Moiety of my said Real
293 Estates and the said moiety of my Said Personal Estates
294 such of the said Children of her my Said Daughter Hannah
295 if more than one in Such parts Shares and proportions
296 and for such Estate or Estates and Interest as he my Said
297 Son in Law the Said John Deverell by any Deed or Writing
298 Deeds or Writings to be by him Executed in the presence of
299 and attested by two or more Credible Witnesses Shall limit
300 or appoint the same and if but one Child of her my Said
301 Daughter Hannah Then to such only Child his or her
302 heirs Executors or Admors And in Case no Such limitation
303 or appointment Shall be made and Executed by him the
304 Said John Deverell Then Upon Trust to Apply the
305 Income of the Said Moiety of the Income of my Said personal
306 Estate for or towards the Maintenance and Education of all
307 and every the Children of my Said Daughter Hannah if
308 more than one and if but one then for the Maintenance of
309 such only Child until they he or She shall respectively attain
310 the Age of Twenty one or if Daughters or a Daughter
311 Days or Day of Marriage which shall first happen and on
312 such Childrens attaining their respective Ages of Twenty one
313 Years or if Daughters or a Daughter Days or Day of
314 Marriage which shall first happen Then Upon Trust
315 to Convey Assign and make over to such Child so attaining
316 the Age of Twenty one Years or if Daughters or a Daughter
317 Days or Day of Marriage which shall first happen his or
318 her heirs Executors or Admors his or her Share and Interest
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319 in and to the said Moiety of my said Real and personal Estate
320 according to the Nature of the Estate so to be Conveyed and
321 made over Provided Nevertheless and I do hereby declare
322 it to be my Will that in Case any of other of the said
323 Children of my Daughter Hannah shall happen to die
324 before his her or their attaining the age of twenty one years or if daughters or a daughter before her or their attaining their Age or Days or day
325 of Marriage Then I will that the share or Interest of
326 Such Child so dying of and in the said Moiety of my Said
327 Residuary Real and Personal Estate Shall go to the Survivors
328 or Survivor of such Children their his or her heirs Executors
329 or admors according to the nature of my Estate hereby before
330 mentioned and Devised and in Case my Said Daughter
331 Hannah Shall Dye leaving no Child at her Decease then
332 I Give the Said Moiety of my Said Residuary Real and
333 Personal Estate to the use of such person or persons and
334 for such Estate and Interest and in Such Shares and
335 proportions as She by any Deed or Writing under her hand
336 and Seal to be attested by two or more Credible Witnesses
337 Shall appoint for want thereof to her heirs Exors
338 and Admors Whereas It may be thought prudent and
339 Convenient to make and Divide in Moietys the Estates
340 which I hold in Fee Simple and also my Leasehold Estates
341 I do therefore hereby authorize and empower them the said
342 Richard Woodward and John Deverell to name and appoint
343 such person or persons as they shall approve of to Divide
344 in Moietys (as near as may be) my said Freehold and Leasehold
345 Estates and to make an Estimate of such Moiety as between
346 them my said Daughters Susannah the Wife of the said Richard
347 Woodward and my said Daughter Hannah the Wife of the said
348 John Deverell and their respective Familys and I will and
349 Direct that such Moiety as Shall be attested for my Said
350 Daughter Susannah and her Family Shall be Considered
351 as the Moiety of my said Freehold and Leasehold Estates
352 herein before by me Given for the Benefit of her and
353 her Family and that such Moiety as Shall be attested for my
354 Said Daughter Hannah and her Family Shall be Considered
355 as the Moiety of my Said Freehold and Leasehold Estates herein
356 before by me Given for the Benefit of her and her
357 Family Provided Nevertheless and I do hereby Declare it
358 to be my Will and I do hereby Direct that my Said Wife and
359 Daughters do and shall (as they shall respectively become
360 Entitled to the Income and produce of my Leasehold Messuages
361 and Lands by Virtue of this my Will) out of such Income and
362 produce bear the Costs of running and full Stating with the
363 Lord or Lords of the Fee such Leasehold messuages and
364 Lands at reasonable Fines for such Renewal or renewals
365 and pay the fines required for such Renewal or renewals as
366 also the Costs of the New Leases respectively which Lease
367 or Leases and the Several Terms and Estates thereby Granted
368 Shall be remain and continue to and upon the Several Trusts
369 Interests and Purposes (or as near) the Same and may be as the
370 present Subsisting Leasehold premises are made lyable to
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371 by this my Will any thing before to the Contrary in any wise
372 notwithstanding And Whereas by virtue of a certain Indenture
373 bearing Date the Second day of May which was in the year
374 of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Seven
375 Inrolled in his Majestys High Court of Chancery and made
376 between the said George Tyndale Robert Hale Gentlemen
377 Francis Brown Merchant since deceased and me the said Richard
378 Blake all of the said City of Bristol of the one part and
379 Francis Ward of the Same City Gentleman of the other part
380 or by other Good and lawful ways and means in the Law
381 I am and stand Seized in Fee of and in one Quarter
382 Undivided part or Share of a messuage or Tenement
383 Commonly called the Boarshead Inn with the Stables Porch
384 Houses and other Outhouses yard Garden and other Ground
385 thereto belonging As also of and in one Quarter part
386 Undivided of a Certain Close or Closes or Ground lately
387 belonging to the said Messuage or Inn and which have not
388 been Granted out in Fee Farm or at perpetual yearly rents
389 And also of and in One undivided Quarter part of Share
390 of Certain other Messuages or Tenements Garden Ground
391 and hereditts some time ago purchased or Richard Lane
392 Esquire and other hereditts in the said Indenture particularly
393 taken notice of And Whereas I am possessed for the
394 Remainder of a Term of One thousand or some long
395 Term of years of and in a Certain Close or Certain Closes
396 of Ground commonly of late called Bullocks Park All which
397 said Freehold and Leasehold premises are Situate lying and
398 being in the parish of Saint Augustine the less in the City of
399 Bristol aforesaid and all or Great part of the said Freehold
400 and Leasehold premises (which has not hitherto been Granted out
401 for Erecting houses and other Buildings thereon is Intended
402 to be Granted out for Building and as it may become necessary
403 to pull down or to make alterations or additional to or in the said
404 house called the Boarshead Inn and the Outhouses thereto
405 belonging as also to pull Down and Erect other Buildings
406 in the Ground delineated and marked out by Mr Thomas Paty
407 of the Said City of Bristol Master Builder in a Plan
408 by him Drawn to go with the said Boarshead Inn I Do
409 therefore Give Devise and bequeath all and Singular the
410 Said Quarter part of Share belonging to me of and in
411 the Said last mentioned Freehold and Leasehold premises in
412 the said Parish of Saint Augustine the less unto them my said
413 Sons in Law the Said Richard Woodward and John Deverell
414 and the Survivor of them (that is to say) as to such part or
415 parts as are Freehold to them and the Survivor of them his
416 heirs and assigns for ever and as to such part or parts
417 as are Leasehold to them and the Survivor of them his
418 Executors Admors and assigns for all my Term Estate and
419 Interest therein Upon Trust for them the said Richard
420 Woodward and John Deverell or the Survivor of them his
421 heirs Executors and Admors to Grant and Let out or to Join
422 in Granting and Letting out in Fee Firm such part or
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423 Years of the said Freehold Premises and to Demise and Grant
424 such part or parts of the Leasehold Premises for any Term
425 or Terms of Years not Exceeding Seven hundred years at such
426 yearly Rents as they or the Survivor of them his heirs
427 Executors or Admors can get for the Same and Commencing at
428 such Days and times as they or the Survivor of them his
429 heirs Executors or Admors Shall think or find to be fit and
430 reasonable and for them the said Richard Woodward and
431 John Deverell or the Survivor of them his heirs Executors
432 or Admors in Such Grant or Grants as they Shall make and
433 Execute to Enter into as Executive Covenants and Agreements as
434 I would or ought to enter into If living and also Upon Trust
435 for them the said Richard Woodward and John Deverell or
436 the Survivor of them his heirs Executors Admors or Assigns
437 to Join and Consent to the pulling Down any Buildings and
438 to the making any alterations Additions or new Erections to or
439 on the Saide Freehold and Leasehold premises as to them or the
440 Survivor of them his heirs Executors Admors or Assigns
441 shall deem meet and I do hereby order and Direct that the
442 one Quarter part of the Several Rents which may be reserved
443 and made payable by any Grant or Grants that they the
444 said Richard Woodward and John Deverell or the Survivor of
445 them his Heirs Executors or Admors respectively shall make
446 or Join in of the Freehold and Leasehold premises
447 respectively shall go to and they the said Richard Woodward
448 and John Deverell and the Survivor of them his heirs
449 Executors or Admors shall respectively Stand Seized and possessed
450 of Such Quarter part of the Said Rents respectively In Trust
451 for the person or persons their his or her heirs Executors or
452 Admors who Shall be Entitled to my other Freehold and Leasehold
453 Estates therein before by me Devised and that they the said
454 Richard Woodward and John Deverell respectively their and
455 each of their heirs Executors and Admors shall be repaid and
456 may retain out of my personal and Residuary Estate all Costs
457 Charges and Expences that they or any or either of them may be
458 at or put unto with respect to the hereinbefore last mentioned
459 Intrusted Freehold and Leasehold Estates in the said parish of
460 Saint Augustine the less And Whereas I am and Stand Seized
461 as Tenant in Common with the said George Tyndall and
462 Robert Hale of and in One Third Undivided part of Share of
463 Certain Messuages or Tenements with their Appurts Situate
464 Standing and being in Cornstreet in the parish of Saint
465 Leonard in the City of Bristol now in the Tenure of Philip
466 Bowyer Hooper the said George Tyndale and John Millett
467 Hatter and of Certain Warehouses Stables Cellars and
468 Brewhouse Situate Standing and being in Saint Nicholas
469 Street and Baldwin Street in the parish of Saint Nicholas
470 within the said City or in the parish of Saint Leonard or one
471 of them now in the Several Occupations of William Tucker
472 Victualler _____Terrel Mealman Nicholas Simpson
473 apothecary and _____________Powell Hooper as Tenants and
474 also of and in one third Undivided part or share of ______
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475 a Certain yearly Chief rent of Fourteen pounds a year
476 Issuing and payable for ever out of a Certain Close of
477 Ground or Messuages or Tenements thereon Erected and
478 Built Situate lying and being in the parish of Saint James
479 within the said City of Bristol and by me and the said George
480 Tyndale and Robert Hale Granted to Samuel Gaines
481 Carpenter and his heirs as Such Said yearly Rent of fourteen
482 pounds I do therefore Give such my said Third part of Share
483 in and to the said last mentioned Messuages with their
484 Appurts Situate and being in Cornstreet and my Said Ware
485 houses Stables Cellars and Brewhouse Situate and being
486 in Saint Nicholas Street and Baldwin Street aforesaid and my said
487 Third part of the said Yearly Rent of Fourteen pounds Issuing
488 and payable as aforesaid unto them the said Richard Woodward
489 and John Deverell and the Survivor of them his heirs and
490 assigns for ever In Trust for them or the Survivor of them
491 his heirs or assigns to sell the same to such person or persons
492 his her or their heirs or assigns as shall be willing to
493 purchase the same and at the best price that can be
494 Gotten for the same and the moneys arising from such said Sale
495 or Sales to pay and apply to and for the like Ends Trusts
496 Intents and Purposes as I have herein before Directed my
497 Residuary Personal Estate to be applied anything before
498 to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding And Whereas
499 I am and stand possessed of and in one Fourth Undivided
500 part in Common with the said George Tyndale Robert
501 Hale and the Representatives of Francis Brown deceased
502 of and in a certain Messuage or Tenement with its Appurts
503 Situate Standing and being on the East Side of Park Street
504 at the first Entrance into the same late in the Occupation
505 of the said Robert Hale Situate in the Said parish of
506 Saint Augustine the less I do therefore Give such my said
507 Quarter part of and in the said Messuage to them the said
508 Richard Woodward and John Deverell and the Survivor of
509 them his Executors and Admors for all my Estate Term and
510 Interest therein In Trust for them the said Richard Woodward
511 and John Deverell or the Survivor of them his Executors
512 Admors to Sell and Dispose of such my Said Quarter part
513 and all my Estate and Interest therein unto such person or
514 persons his Executors or Admors as Shall be minded to
515 purchase the Same and the Moneys arising from Such Sale
516 to pay and apply to and for the like Intents Trusts and
517 purposes as the Moneys arising from the Sale of my Said
518 Third part of my Messuages In Corn Street and hereditts
519 in Saint Nicholas Street Baldwin Street and my Said Third
520 part of the Sh[a]r[e] of rent of Fourteen pounds a year is
521 Directed to be applied as aforesaid And I do hereby direct
522 that no person or persons who Shall or may be become a
523 purchaser of the premises to be Sold by Virtue of all or
524 any of the Powers hereby by me Given shall be answerable
525 for the misapplication or non application of the Consideration
526 Money to be Given for their respective purchases and that
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527 the Receipts or Receipt of them the said Richard Woodward
528 and John Deverell or of the Survivor of them his Heirs
529 Executors or Admors according to the nature of what shall
530 be Sold Shall be a full and effectual Discharge to the person
531 or persons who shall purchase the premises so authorized
532 to be Sold or any part thereof And I do hereby Indempnefy
533 them the said Richard Woodward John Deverell and William
534 Blake and each of them their and each of their Executors
535 and Admors from all Costs Charges Damages and Expences
536 that they any or either of them Shall or may be at or put
537 unto by reason or means of their or any or either of their
538 acting under the Trusts of this my Will and do Direct that
539 the one of them Shall not be answerable for the other
540 acts Receipt or Receipts Default or Defaults of the
541 other of them But each for his own Act or Acts only nor
542 for the Insufficiency of any Security to be taken for my
543 Trust Estate or any part thereof Nor for any
544 Involuntary Loss whatsoever And I do hereby Nominate
545 and appoint them the said Richard Woodward John
546 Deverell and William Blake Executors In Trust of this
547 my last Will and Testament and do hereby revoke all former
548 and other Will or Wills by me made and declare this to be
549 my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have
550 to this my last Will and Testament contained in Sixteen
551 Sides of Sixteen Sheets of paper To the first Fifteen Sides
552 Set my hand and to this Sixteenth and last side my hand and
553 Seal this third Day of July in the year of our Lord One
554 thousand Seven hundred and Seventy, Richd Blake
555 Signed Sealed published and Declared by the said Testator
556 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who
557 in his presence and at his request and in the presence of
558 each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses
559 John Gresley Jun[io]r Fran[ci]s Ward Geo: Rogers
560 Memorandum I Give to my Friend
561 Mr. William Blake in my Will reserved the Sum of
562 Twenty pounds of Lawful Brittish Money to be paid at
563 the time of my other Legacys by my Will Given and Directed
564 to be paid As Witness my hand this Fifth day of July
565 1770 Richd Blake Witness Fran[ci]s Ward
566 Geo: Rogers
567 This Will was proved at London (with a
568 Codicil) the Eighteenth day of February in the year of our
569 Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy one before the
570 Right Worshipful George Hay Doctor of Laws Master
571 Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
572 Lawfully Constituted by the Oaths of Richard Woodward Doctor
573 of Laws and John Deverell Esquire two of the Executors
574 to whom Administration was Granted they having been first
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575 Sworn by Commission duly to administer William Blake
576 the other Executor named in the said Will having first
577 renounced the Execution thereof
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Hence he is the son of Richard Blake of Chipping Sodbury and Mary (unknown) who were buried at Chipping Sodbury. He had uncles Joseph and Samuel both died in 1715. He was married to Mary Greenway and five of their children died as infants. The surviving children – two daughters – mentioned in the will below Susannah and Hannah.
Names mentioned in the will below:
Richard Blake, gentleman, Bristol, testator
Mary Blake, wife
W. Graton, Bristol, tenant
Phillippa Palmer, Bristol, tenant
____ Thomas, Bristol, tenant
Mrs. Godwin, Bristol, tenant
Mr. John Larkin, surgeon, Bristol, tenant
Mr. John Wallis, Bristol, tenant
Mr. Samuel Pye, tenant, deceased
Mr. Thomas Symons, attorney at law, Bristol, tenant
Mr. John Waddix, Bristol, tenant
Mrs. Sarah Pye, Bristol, widow, tenant
Reverend Richard Woodward, Dean of Clogher, Ireland, son in law, executor
Mr. John Derverell, Bristol, gentleman, son in law, executor
Mr. William Blake, Bristol, merchant, gentleman, friend, executor
George Tyndell, Bristol, Esquire, Friend, Indentee
Mrs. Jane Rudge, cousin
John March, late servant
Rebecca Mead, servant
Mrs. Mary Adlam, Hembury
Mr. Joseph Haynes, Esquire, Weck
Mr. Thomas Haynes, Weck, father of Joseph
Elizabeth Haynes, sister to Joseph
Richard Haynes, son of Thomas
Thomas Haynes, son of Thomas
Christopher Haynes, son of Thomas
Mr. William Palmer, surgeon, Bradford, Wiltshire
Frances Palmer, daughter of William
Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of William
Mrs. Ann Baker, Bristol
____ Greenway, widow of John Greenway, cousin
John Greenway, father of Joseph, deceased
Joseph Greenway, son of widow Greenway
Christopher Blake, St Philip and Jacob, kinsman
Eleanor Anthony, Bristol or Bedminster, Somerset, kinswoman
Thomas Anthony, Bristol or Bedminster, Somerset, husband of Eleanor
Mr. Charles Harwood, schoolmaster, Bristol
Hester Lamb, deceased
John Lamb, husband of Hester, mason, Bath
Richard Blake, son of Mr. William Blake, godson
Susannah Woodward, Ireland, wife of Richard Woodward, daughter
Hannah Deverell, Bristol, wife of John Deverell, daughter
Robert Hale, Gentleman, Indentee
Francis Brown, Merchant, Indentee, deceased
Francis Ward, Bristol, gentleman, Indentee, witness
Mr. Thomas Paty, Master Builder, Bristol
Philip Bowyer, hooper, Bristol, tenant
John Millett, hatter, Bristol, tenant
William Tucker, victualler, Bristol, tenant
_____ Terrel, mealman, Bristol, tenant
Nicholas Simpson, apothecary, Bristol, tenant
______ Powell, hooper, Bristol, tenant
Samuel Gaines, carpenter, Bristol, tenant
John Gresley, junior, witness
George Rogers, witness
Mr. William Blake is somewhat of a mystery. The testator is godfather to his son Richard. There is also a Christopher Blake, kinsman, mentioned in the will. Eleanor Anthony also his kinswoman. His cousins the Greenway family are also mentioned. Mrs. Jane Rudge is also a cousin.
The assumption that this Richard is a grandson of Ambrose Blake of Pinhills does seem to be reasonable given some of the information related in the blog of Christopher Blake’s will:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-christopher-blake-yeoman.html
Christopher in that will mentions his cousins John Blake, William Blake (deceased) and Joseph Blake all of Tetbury and Edward Blake and Henry Blake of London. Usually one does have relatives as godparents to one’s children (but not always) and this was perhaps more the case in days gone by. This line though has daughtered out; no Blake descendants of this Richard are named.
The will of William Blake of Bristol (1792) is to come and I wonder if the first memorial mentioned in the blog on the Memorials to the Blake family of Gloucestershire pertains to this family:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Richard Blake son of William and Rebecca Blake died in 1829 aged 69 (born circa 1760). This Richard would have been 11 years of age when this will was written and the son of a William Blake of St Stephen’s Church, Bristol. This Blake family uses the Calne Blake family crest as well. I wondered in this earlier blog if they were from Cornwall but finding this new information I need to investigate William and Rebecca Blake and see what I can learn about their ancestry. William’s will is to come and was probated in 1792.
Still to do the wills of Robert Blake 1849, Robert Blake 1854 and then William Blake 1792 and William Blake 1853 and Gloucester PCC wills will be completed. I do however have 37 wills that were from Bristol Diocese and a few of them are older wills. I think that I should move to these wills next.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 20 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/963/393
Testator: Richard Blake, gentleman
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 3 Jul 1770, probated 18 Feb 1771
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Richard
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Richard Blake of the City of Bristol Gentleman Do
3 make this my last Will and Testament in manner following
4 (that is to say) First and principally I commend my Soul
5 into the hands of Almighty God hoping through the merits
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6 Mediation and Intercession of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer
7 Jesus Christ to obtain Everlasting life And as to my Body
8 it is my Will that the same Shall be intered in the
9 Parish Church of Saint Werburgh in the said City of
10 Bristol on the third Day next after my Decease And
11 I Direct that a Decent monument shall be made and put
12 up and erected for me in the same Church as my Wife
13 Shall Direct within Six months next after my decease,
14 as to my Worldly Estate I dispose thereof as follows, to
15 wit, I Give the Sum of Fifty pounds of lawful money of
16 Great Britain To the Church Wardens of the Said
17 Parish of Saint Werbough for the time being to be
18 placed out at Interest and the Interest thereof to be
19 applied from time to time for ever by the Minister
20 Churchwardens and Vestry of the same Parish towards
21 Cloathing such poor people yearly of the said parish as
22 they shall see first the same poor people being members
23 of the Church of England Item I Give to the Minister and
24 Churchwardens for the time being of the parish of
25 Winterbourn in the County of Gloucester the Sum of
26 Fifty pounds of like lawful British Money to be by them
27 placed out at Interest and the Interest therefrom arising
28 to be laid out in Bread and Given by the Minister and
29 Churchwardens of the said Parish of Winterbourn for the
30 time being To the poor of that parish at Christmas
31 yearly for ever Item I Give To the Minister and Church
32 Wardens for the time being of the Parish of Chipping
33 Sodbury in the County of Gloucester aforesaid the Sum of
34 Fifty pounds of like lawful British Money to be by
35 them placed out at Interest and the interest therefrom arising to be laid
36 out in Bread and Given by the Minister and Churchwardens
37 of that parish for the time being To the poor of that
38 parish at Christmas yearly for ever Item I Give the
39 Sum of One hundred pounds of lawful British Money to
40 my Wife for her to bestow and Give the same to such poor
41 people as she shall think fit Item I give to my much
42 Esteemed and beloved Wife the Sum of Three hundred
43 pounds of lawful British money to be paid to her
44 within ten Days next after my Decease and I also Give
45 unto her all and Singular my Leasehold Goods Linen
46 plate Rings and Watches Item I Give unto her my said
47 Wife my two messuages or Tenements with their appurts
48 Situate in Queen Square in Bristol aforesaid the one of them
49 now in my own occupation and the other of them adjoining
50 thereto now in the Occupation of W Graton
51 And also my two Messuages
52 or Tenements situate and being the one in Cem Street the
53 other in Small Street in the parish of Saint Werburgh
54 aforesaid and in the Occupations of Phillippa Palmer
55 and late of _______Thomas And also my Two Messuages
56 or Tenements on Stonyhill in the parish of Saint Augustine
57 the less in the said City of Bristol and in the Several
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58 Occupations of Mrs ______ Godwin and Mr John Larkin
60 Surgeon and also all these yearly Sums or Chief Rents
61 Issuing and payable to me out of certain plots of Ground
62 on Stony hill aforesaid by me Granted to Mr John Wallis
63 Mr Samuel Pye deceased and Mr Thomas Symons Attorney
64 at Law respectively and on which certain messuages with
65 their respective Appurts have been erected and Built and
66 are now in the Several Occupations of the said Mr John
67 Wallis Mr Thomas Symons Mr John Waddix and Mrs Sarah
68 Pye Widow And also all my Lands at Well Freehold as
69 Leasehold Situate lying and being in Oldland Barnam
70 and Bitton or one of them in the County of Gloucester
71 and also my Lease at Rendaleshire in the Parish of
72 Winterborn in the said County of Gloucester with its
73 appurts adjoining to my Farm house there To have
74 and To hold all and Singular the said Messuages Lands
75 Chief or Reserved Rents Heredits and premises unto
76 her my Said Wife and her assigns in manner following
77 (that is to say) As for such of my said Several and
78 respective Messuages and Lands as are Freehold for
79 and during the Term or her normal life and as for such
80 of them as are Leasehold or which I hold for Terms
81 of Years for and during So many years as She my said
82 Wife shall or may happen to live Item I Give to
83 my two Sons in Law the Reverend Richard Woodward Dean of
84 Clogher in the Kingdom of Ireland and John Deverell
85 of the City of Bristol Esquire and William Blake of the
86 said City of Bristol Merchant and to the Survivors and
87 Survivor of them his Executors Admors and Assigns the
88 Sum of four thousand pounds of lawful British money
89 Upon Trust to place the Same out at Interest (with the
90 approbation of my said Wife upon the best Security of
91 Mortgage Double or Treble Bond or Bonds that can be
92 Got for the same or otherwise on Government Security
93 and the Interest or Dividends therefrom arising from time
94 to time to pay unto her my Said Wife for and during so
95 many years as She shall or may happen to live Item
96 I further Give and bequeath unto her my Said Wife the
97 Sum of Two thousand pounds of lawful British Money
98 Item I give to my Friend George Tyndell of the said
99 City of Bristol Esquire the Sum of Twenty pounds of
100 like Money To my Cousin Mrs Jane Rudge the Sum of
101 Ten pounds of like Money To my late Servant John
102 March the Sum of Ten pounds of like money To my
103 faithful Servant Rebecca Mead the Sum of Two
104 hundred pounds of like money and a Reward for her Care
105 of me in my Several Illnesses And I Give unto her
106 and to each Domestick Servant as Shall live with me
107 at the time of my Decease the Sum of Five pounds
108 a piece for mourning I Give to Mrs Mary Adlam of
109 Hembury in the County of Gloucester aforesaid the Sum of
110 Ten pounds of like lawful British Money Item I give to Mr
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111 Joseph Haynes (Son of Thomas Haynes of Weck in the said
112 County of Gloucester Esquire and to Elizabeth Haynes Sister
113 of the Said Joseph Haynes the Sum of Ten pounds apiece
114 of like lawful British Money Item I Give to the said
115 Thomas Haynes and to his three Sons Richard Thomas and
116 Christopher Haynes a Mourning Ring each Item I Give
117 to my Worthy Friend Mr William Palmer Surgeon at
118 Bradford in the County of Wilts a Mourning Ring and to his
119 two Daughters Frances and Elizabeth Palmer the Sum
120 of Ten pounds apiece of like lawful British Money
121 Item I Give to Mrs Ann Baker living in Milk Street
122 Bristol and to my Cousen Greenway Widow of John
123 Greenway deceased and to her Son Joseph Greenway the
124 Sum of Ten pounds a piece of like lawful British money
125 Item I Give to my Kinsman Christopher Blake of the
126 parish of Saint Philip and Jacob in the County of Gloucester
127 the Sum of Fifty pounds of like money and
128 To each of the Children of the said Christopher Blake
129 I Give the Sum of Ten pounds of like Money to be paid to
130 them on their Attaining their respective ages of Twenty
131 one years Item I Give to my Kinswoman Eleanor
132 Anthony Wife of Thomas Anthony of the said City of Bristol
133 or of the Parish of Bedminster in the County of Somerset
134 the Sum of Fifty pounds of like Money to be paid and
135 applied To and for her own Sole and Separate use and as She
136 Shall Direct Item I Give to Mr Charles Harwood of the
137 City of Bristol Schoolmaster the Sum of Twenty pounds of like
138 Money Item I Give to each of the Children of Hester Lamb
139 late Wife of John Lamb of the City of Bath Mason the Sum
140 of Twenty pounds of like Money To be paid to them on there
141 respective attaining the Age of Twenty one Years Item
142 I Give to my Godson Richard Blake son of Mr William Blake
143 the Sum of Twenty pounds of like Money Item I Give unto
144 each of my Sons in Law the said Richard Woodward and
145 John Deverell the Sum of One thousand pounds apiece
146 of like lawful British Money as tokens of my Regard
147 for them All which said Several Legacies by me Given
148 (Except such as I have herein before appointed times for
149 Payment thereof respectively I Will Shall be paid
150 within the Space of Twelve Months next after my decease
151 Item All the Rest residue and Remainder of my Estate both
152 Real and Personal Moneys Securitys for Money Goods Chattels
153 and Effects whatsoever as also my said Messuages and Lands
154 and the Said Sum of Four thousand pounds (the Interest or
155 Income whereof I have Given to my Wife as aforesaid for
156 her life) after the Death of her my Said Wife And all other
157 my Estate of what nature kind or Sort whatsoever or
158 wheresoever Situate Standing and being at the time of my
159 Decease (other than and Except my Messuages Lands Tenements
160 and hereditts Situate Standing and Being in the parish of Saint
161 Augustine Saint Leonard Parish included and Saint James herein after
162 Taken notice of and by me Given and disposed of for the Trusts
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163 Intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned) I Give Devise and
164 bequeath unto my said Sons in Law Richard Woodward John
165 Deverell and William Blake To hold to them and the Survivors
166 and Survivor of them his heirs Executors Admors and Assigns
167 To for and upon the Several Trusts Intents and Purposes herein
168 after Expressed Subject nevertheless to the proviso hereinafter
169 mentioned (that is to say) Upon Trust to Let and Set my said
170 Freehold and Leasehold Messuages Lands and hereditts for
171 Such Term or Terms of Years and they the said Richard
172 Woodward John Deverell and William Blake or the
173 Survivors or Survivor of them his heirs Executors or
174 Admors shall soon meet at the best yearly Rent and
175 Rents as can be got for the same and to receive such the
176 Rents and Profits thereof and to put and place my
177 personal Estate and Moneys arising therefrom out at
178 Interest and to receive the Income Interest and produce
179 thereof and to pay and Apply One moiety of the net
181 Rents Interest Income and produce of such Freehold and
182 Leasehold Messuages Lands and hereditts and personal Estate
183 To my Daughter Susannah the Wife of the said Richard
184 Woodward and her Assigns for and during the Term of
185 her natural life or for so many years as She shall happen
186 to live and to and for her Sole and Separate Use and from
187 and Immediately after her Decease Upon Trust to pay and
188 Apply such Said Money of the Rents Interest Income and
189 produce To or for the Maintenance Breeding up and Education
190 of all and every the Children if more than one and if but
191 one then of the only Child of her my said Daughter Susannah
192 as She shall leave behind her at her Decease Until they
193 he or She shall respectively attain the Age of Twenty
194 one years Or if Daughters or a Daughter that age or
195 Days or day of marriage which shall first happen and upon
196 such said Children (if more than one) attaining their respective
197 Ages of Twenty one years or if Daughters or a Daughter
198 there age or Days or Day of Marriage Then Upon Trust
199 To Convey assign and make over the Moiety of my Said Real
200 Estates and the moiety of my said Personal Estate To Such
201 of the Children of her my said Daughter Susannah (if more
202 than one) in such parts Shares and proportions and for such
203 Estate or Estates and Interest as She my said Daughter
204 Susannah by any Deed or Writing Deeds or Writings to be by
205 her Executed in the presence of and attested by two or more
206 Credible Witnesses Shall limit or Appoint the same and if
207 but one Child of her my Said Daughter Susannah Then to
208 such only Child his or her heirs Executors or Admors and
209 in Case no such Limitation or Appointment shall be made
210 and Executed by her my said Daughter Susannah Then
211 Upon Trust To Convey Assign and make over the said
211 Moiety of my Said Real Estates and the Said Moiety of my
213 Said Personal Estate To such of the Said Children of her
214 my Said Daughter Susannah (if more than one) in such parts
215 Shares and proportions and for such Estate or Estates and Interest
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216 as he my Said Son in Law the Said Richard Woodward by any
217 Deed or Writing Deeds or Writings to be by him Executed in the
218 presence of and attested by two or more Credible Witnesses
219 shall limit or appoint the Same and if but one Child of
220 her by my Said Daughter Susannah Then to Such only Child his
221 or her heirs Executors or Admors And in Case no such
222 Limitation or Appointment Shall be made and Executed by
223 him the said Richard Woodward Then Upon Trust to apply
224 the Income of the Said Moiety of my said Real Estates and
225 the Said Moiety of the Income of my Said personal Estate
226 for or towards the Maintenance and Education of all and every
227 the Children of my Said Daughter Susannah if more than one
228 and if but one Then for the maintenance of Such only Child
229 until they he or She shall respectively attain the Age of
230 Twenty one or if Daughters or a Daughter Days or Day
231 of Marriage which Shall first happen And on such Childrens
232 attaining their respective Ages of Twenty one Years or if Daughters
233 or a Daughter Days or Day of Marriage which shall first
234 happen Then Upon Trust to Convey assign and make over to
235 such Child so attaining the Age of Twenty one Years or if
236 Daughters or a Daughter Days or Day of Marriage which
237 Shall first happen his or her heirs Executors or Admors
238 his or her Share and Interest in and to the Said Money of
239 my Said Real and personal Estate according to the nature
240 of the Estate So to be Conveyed and made over Provided
241 Nevertheless and I Do hereby Declare it to be my Will that
242 in Case any or either of the Said Children of my Daughter
243 Susannah Shall happen to die before his her or their attaining
244 the Age of Twenty one years of if Daughters or a Daughter
245 before her or their attaining that Age or Days or Day of
246 Marriage Then I will that the Share or Interest of such
247 Child So dying of and in the Said Moiety of my said Residuary
248 Real and Personal Estate Shall go to the Survivors or
249 Survivor of Such Children their his or her heirs Executors
250 or Admors according to the nature of my Estate hereby before
251 mentioned and Devised And in Case my Said Daughter Susanna
252 Shall Dye leaving no Child at her Decease Then I give
253 the Said Moiety of my Said Residuary Real and personal
254 Estate To the use of such person or persons and for such
255 Estate and Interest and in Such shares and proportions
256 as She by any Deed or Writing under her hand and Seal to
257 be attested by two or more Credible Witnesses Shall appoint
258 for want thereof to her heirs Executors and Admors
259 And Also Upon Trust in them my Said Sons in Law Richard
260 Woodward John Deverell and William Blake their
261 heirs Executors and Admors reposed to pay and apply the
262 other Moiety of the net Rents Interest Income and produce
263 of such my said Residuary Real and personal Estate To
264 my Daughter Hannah the Wife of the Said John Deverell
265 and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural
266 life or for so many years as she shall happen to live and to
267 and for her Sole and Separate Use and from and Immediately
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268 after her Decease Upon Trust to pay and apply such Said
269 Moiety of the said Rents Interest Income and Produce
270 To or for the Maintenance Breeding up and Education of all and
271 every the Children if more than one and if but one Then of
272 the only Child of her my said Daughter Hannah as she shall
273 leave behind her at her Decease until they he or she shall
274 respectively attain the Age of Twenty one Years or if Daughters
275 or a Daughter that age or Days or Day of Marriage which
276 Shall first happen and upon such Said Childrens (if more
277 than one) attaining their respective Ages of Twenty one
278 Years or if Daughters or a Daughter that Age or Days
279 or Day of Marriage Then Upon Trust to Convey Assign and
280 make over the Moiety of my Said Real Estates and the
281 Moiety of my said Personal Estate To Such of the Children
282 of her my Said Daughter Hannah (if more than one) in such
283 parts Shares and proportions and for such Estate or Estates and
284 Interest as She my Said Daughter Hannah by any Deed or
285 Writing Deeds or Writings to be by her Executed in the presence
286 of and attested by two or more Credible Witnesses shall
287 limit or appoint the Same and if but one Child of her my
288 said Daughter Hannah Then to such only Child his or her
289 heirs Executors or Admors And in Case no Such Limitation
290 or Appointment Shall be made and Executed by her my
291 Said Daughter Hannah Then Upon Trust to Convey
292 assign and make over the Said Moiety of my said Real
293 Estates and the said moiety of my Said Personal Estates
294 such of the said Children of her my Said Daughter Hannah
295 if more than one in Such parts Shares and proportions
296 and for such Estate or Estates and Interest as he my Said
297 Son in Law the Said John Deverell by any Deed or Writing
298 Deeds or Writings to be by him Executed in the presence of
299 and attested by two or more Credible Witnesses Shall limit
300 or appoint the same and if but one Child of her my Said
301 Daughter Hannah Then to such only Child his or her
302 heirs Executors or Admors And in Case no Such limitation
303 or appointment Shall be made and Executed by him the
304 Said John Deverell Then Upon Trust to Apply the
305 Income of the Said Moiety of the Income of my Said personal
306 Estate for or towards the Maintenance and Education of all
307 and every the Children of my Said Daughter Hannah if
308 more than one and if but one then for the Maintenance of
309 such only Child until they he or She shall respectively attain
310 the Age of Twenty one or if Daughters or a Daughter
311 Days or Day of Marriage which shall first happen and on
312 such Childrens attaining their respective Ages of Twenty one
313 Years or if Daughters or a Daughter Days or Day of
314 Marriage which shall first happen Then Upon Trust
315 to Convey Assign and make over to such Child so attaining
316 the Age of Twenty one Years or if Daughters or a Daughter
317 Days or Day of Marriage which shall first happen his or
318 her heirs Executors or Admors his or her Share and Interest
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319 in and to the said Moiety of my said Real and personal Estate
320 according to the Nature of the Estate so to be Conveyed and
321 made over Provided Nevertheless and I do hereby declare
322 it to be my Will that in Case any of other of the said
323 Children of my Daughter Hannah shall happen to die
324 before his her or their attaining the age of twenty one years or if daughters or a daughter before her or their attaining their Age or Days or day
325 of Marriage Then I will that the share or Interest of
326 Such Child so dying of and in the said Moiety of my Said
327 Residuary Real and Personal Estate Shall go to the Survivors
328 or Survivor of such Children their his or her heirs Executors
329 or admors according to the nature of my Estate hereby before
330 mentioned and Devised and in Case my Said Daughter
331 Hannah Shall Dye leaving no Child at her Decease then
332 I Give the Said Moiety of my Said Residuary Real and
333 Personal Estate to the use of such person or persons and
334 for such Estate and Interest and in Such Shares and
335 proportions as She by any Deed or Writing under her hand
336 and Seal to be attested by two or more Credible Witnesses
337 Shall appoint for want thereof to her heirs Exors
338 and Admors Whereas It may be thought prudent and
339 Convenient to make and Divide in Moietys the Estates
340 which I hold in Fee Simple and also my Leasehold Estates
341 I do therefore hereby authorize and empower them the said
342 Richard Woodward and John Deverell to name and appoint
343 such person or persons as they shall approve of to Divide
344 in Moietys (as near as may be) my said Freehold and Leasehold
345 Estates and to make an Estimate of such Moiety as between
346 them my said Daughters Susannah the Wife of the said Richard
347 Woodward and my said Daughter Hannah the Wife of the said
348 John Deverell and their respective Familys and I will and
349 Direct that such Moiety as Shall be attested for my Said
350 Daughter Susannah and her Family Shall be Considered
351 as the Moiety of my said Freehold and Leasehold Estates
352 herein before by me Given for the Benefit of her and
353 her Family and that such Moiety as Shall be attested for my
354 Said Daughter Hannah and her Family Shall be Considered
355 as the Moiety of my Said Freehold and Leasehold Estates herein
356 before by me Given for the Benefit of her and her
357 Family Provided Nevertheless and I do hereby Declare it
358 to be my Will and I do hereby Direct that my Said Wife and
359 Daughters do and shall (as they shall respectively become
360 Entitled to the Income and produce of my Leasehold Messuages
361 and Lands by Virtue of this my Will) out of such Income and
362 produce bear the Costs of running and full Stating with the
363 Lord or Lords of the Fee such Leasehold messuages and
364 Lands at reasonable Fines for such Renewal or renewals
365 and pay the fines required for such Renewal or renewals as
366 also the Costs of the New Leases respectively which Lease
367 or Leases and the Several Terms and Estates thereby Granted
368 Shall be remain and continue to and upon the Several Trusts
369 Interests and Purposes (or as near) the Same and may be as the
370 present Subsisting Leasehold premises are made lyable to
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371 by this my Will any thing before to the Contrary in any wise
372 notwithstanding And Whereas by virtue of a certain Indenture
373 bearing Date the Second day of May which was in the year
374 of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Seven
375 Inrolled in his Majestys High Court of Chancery and made
376 between the said George Tyndale Robert Hale Gentlemen
377 Francis Brown Merchant since deceased and me the said Richard
378 Blake all of the said City of Bristol of the one part and
379 Francis Ward of the Same City Gentleman of the other part
380 or by other Good and lawful ways and means in the Law
381 I am and stand Seized in Fee of and in one Quarter
382 Undivided part or Share of a messuage or Tenement
383 Commonly called the Boarshead Inn with the Stables Porch
384 Houses and other Outhouses yard Garden and other Ground
385 thereto belonging As also of and in one Quarter part
386 Undivided of a Certain Close or Closes or Ground lately
387 belonging to the said Messuage or Inn and which have not
388 been Granted out in Fee Farm or at perpetual yearly rents
389 And also of and in One undivided Quarter part of Share
390 of Certain other Messuages or Tenements Garden Ground
391 and hereditts some time ago purchased or Richard Lane
392 Esquire and other hereditts in the said Indenture particularly
393 taken notice of And Whereas I am possessed for the
394 Remainder of a Term of One thousand or some long
395 Term of years of and in a Certain Close or Certain Closes
396 of Ground commonly of late called Bullocks Park All which
397 said Freehold and Leasehold premises are Situate lying and
398 being in the parish of Saint Augustine the less in the City of
399 Bristol aforesaid and all or Great part of the said Freehold
400 and Leasehold premises (which has not hitherto been Granted out
401 for Erecting houses and other Buildings thereon is Intended
402 to be Granted out for Building and as it may become necessary
403 to pull down or to make alterations or additional to or in the said
404 house called the Boarshead Inn and the Outhouses thereto
405 belonging as also to pull Down and Erect other Buildings
406 in the Ground delineated and marked out by Mr Thomas Paty
407 of the Said City of Bristol Master Builder in a Plan
408 by him Drawn to go with the said Boarshead Inn I Do
409 therefore Give Devise and bequeath all and Singular the
410 Said Quarter part of Share belonging to me of and in
411 the Said last mentioned Freehold and Leasehold premises in
412 the said Parish of Saint Augustine the less unto them my said
413 Sons in Law the Said Richard Woodward and John Deverell
414 and the Survivor of them (that is to say) as to such part or
415 parts as are Freehold to them and the Survivor of them his
416 heirs and assigns for ever and as to such part or parts
417 as are Leasehold to them and the Survivor of them his
418 Executors Admors and assigns for all my Term Estate and
419 Interest therein Upon Trust for them the said Richard
420 Woodward and John Deverell or the Survivor of them his
421 heirs Executors and Admors to Grant and Let out or to Join
422 in Granting and Letting out in Fee Firm such part or
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423 Years of the said Freehold Premises and to Demise and Grant
424 such part or parts of the Leasehold Premises for any Term
425 or Terms of Years not Exceeding Seven hundred years at such
426 yearly Rents as they or the Survivor of them his heirs
427 Executors or Admors can get for the Same and Commencing at
428 such Days and times as they or the Survivor of them his
429 heirs Executors or Admors Shall think or find to be fit and
430 reasonable and for them the said Richard Woodward and
431 John Deverell or the Survivor of them his heirs Executors
432 or Admors in Such Grant or Grants as they Shall make and
433 Execute to Enter into as Executive Covenants and Agreements as
434 I would or ought to enter into If living and also Upon Trust
435 for them the said Richard Woodward and John Deverell or
436 the Survivor of them his heirs Executors Admors or Assigns
437 to Join and Consent to the pulling Down any Buildings and
438 to the making any alterations Additions or new Erections to or
439 on the Saide Freehold and Leasehold premises as to them or the
440 Survivor of them his heirs Executors Admors or Assigns
441 shall deem meet and I do hereby order and Direct that the
442 one Quarter part of the Several Rents which may be reserved
443 and made payable by any Grant or Grants that they the
444 said Richard Woodward and John Deverell or the Survivor of
445 them his Heirs Executors or Admors respectively shall make
446 or Join in of the Freehold and Leasehold premises
447 respectively shall go to and they the said Richard Woodward
448 and John Deverell and the Survivor of them his heirs
449 Executors or Admors shall respectively Stand Seized and possessed
450 of Such Quarter part of the Said Rents respectively In Trust
451 for the person or persons their his or her heirs Executors or
452 Admors who Shall be Entitled to my other Freehold and Leasehold
453 Estates therein before by me Devised and that they the said
454 Richard Woodward and John Deverell respectively their and
455 each of their heirs Executors and Admors shall be repaid and
456 may retain out of my personal and Residuary Estate all Costs
457 Charges and Expences that they or any or either of them may be
458 at or put unto with respect to the hereinbefore last mentioned
459 Intrusted Freehold and Leasehold Estates in the said parish of
460 Saint Augustine the less And Whereas I am and Stand Seized
461 as Tenant in Common with the said George Tyndall and
462 Robert Hale of and in One Third Undivided part of Share of
463 Certain Messuages or Tenements with their Appurts Situate
464 Standing and being in Cornstreet in the parish of Saint
465 Leonard in the City of Bristol now in the Tenure of Philip
466 Bowyer Hooper the said George Tyndale and John Millett
467 Hatter and of Certain Warehouses Stables Cellars and
468 Brewhouse Situate Standing and being in Saint Nicholas
469 Street and Baldwin Street in the parish of Saint Nicholas
470 within the said City or in the parish of Saint Leonard or one
471 of them now in the Several Occupations of William Tucker
472 Victualler _____Terrel Mealman Nicholas Simpson
473 apothecary and _____________Powell Hooper as Tenants and
474 also of and in one third Undivided part or share of ______
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475 a Certain yearly Chief rent of Fourteen pounds a year
476 Issuing and payable for ever out of a Certain Close of
477 Ground or Messuages or Tenements thereon Erected and
478 Built Situate lying and being in the parish of Saint James
479 within the said City of Bristol and by me and the said George
480 Tyndale and Robert Hale Granted to Samuel Gaines
481 Carpenter and his heirs as Such Said yearly Rent of fourteen
482 pounds I do therefore Give such my said Third part of Share
483 in and to the said last mentioned Messuages with their
484 Appurts Situate and being in Cornstreet and my Said Ware
485 houses Stables Cellars and Brewhouse Situate and being
486 in Saint Nicholas Street and Baldwin Street aforesaid and my said
487 Third part of the said Yearly Rent of Fourteen pounds Issuing
488 and payable as aforesaid unto them the said Richard Woodward
489 and John Deverell and the Survivor of them his heirs and
490 assigns for ever In Trust for them or the Survivor of them
491 his heirs or assigns to sell the same to such person or persons
492 his her or their heirs or assigns as shall be willing to
493 purchase the same and at the best price that can be
494 Gotten for the same and the moneys arising from such said Sale
495 or Sales to pay and apply to and for the like Ends Trusts
496 Intents and Purposes as I have herein before Directed my
497 Residuary Personal Estate to be applied anything before
498 to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding And Whereas
499 I am and stand possessed of and in one Fourth Undivided
500 part in Common with the said George Tyndale Robert
501 Hale and the Representatives of Francis Brown deceased
502 of and in a certain Messuage or Tenement with its Appurts
503 Situate Standing and being on the East Side of Park Street
504 at the first Entrance into the same late in the Occupation
505 of the said Robert Hale Situate in the Said parish of
506 Saint Augustine the less I do therefore Give such my said
507 Quarter part of and in the said Messuage to them the said
508 Richard Woodward and John Deverell and the Survivor of
509 them his Executors and Admors for all my Estate Term and
510 Interest therein In Trust for them the said Richard Woodward
511 and John Deverell or the Survivor of them his Executors
512 Admors to Sell and Dispose of such my Said Quarter part
513 and all my Estate and Interest therein unto such person or
514 persons his Executors or Admors as Shall be minded to
515 purchase the Same and the Moneys arising from Such Sale
516 to pay and apply to and for the like Intents Trusts and
517 purposes as the Moneys arising from the Sale of my Said
518 Third part of my Messuages In Corn Street and hereditts
519 in Saint Nicholas Street Baldwin Street and my Said Third
520 part of the Sh[a]r[e] of rent of Fourteen pounds a year is
521 Directed to be applied as aforesaid And I do hereby direct
522 that no person or persons who Shall or may be become a
523 purchaser of the premises to be Sold by Virtue of all or
524 any of the Powers hereby by me Given shall be answerable
525 for the misapplication or non application of the Consideration
526 Money to be Given for their respective purchases and that
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527 the Receipts or Receipt of them the said Richard Woodward
528 and John Deverell or of the Survivor of them his Heirs
529 Executors or Admors according to the nature of what shall
530 be Sold Shall be a full and effectual Discharge to the person
531 or persons who shall purchase the premises so authorized
532 to be Sold or any part thereof And I do hereby Indempnefy
533 them the said Richard Woodward John Deverell and William
534 Blake and each of them their and each of their Executors
535 and Admors from all Costs Charges Damages and Expences
536 that they any or either of them Shall or may be at or put
537 unto by reason or means of their or any or either of their
538 acting under the Trusts of this my Will and do Direct that
539 the one of them Shall not be answerable for the other
540 acts Receipt or Receipts Default or Defaults of the
541 other of them But each for his own Act or Acts only nor
542 for the Insufficiency of any Security to be taken for my
543 Trust Estate or any part thereof Nor for any
544 Involuntary Loss whatsoever And I do hereby Nominate
545 and appoint them the said Richard Woodward John
546 Deverell and William Blake Executors In Trust of this
547 my last Will and Testament and do hereby revoke all former
548 and other Will or Wills by me made and declare this to be
549 my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have
550 to this my last Will and Testament contained in Sixteen
551 Sides of Sixteen Sheets of paper To the first Fifteen Sides
552 Set my hand and to this Sixteenth and last side my hand and
553 Seal this third Day of July in the year of our Lord One
554 thousand Seven hundred and Seventy, Richd Blake
555 Signed Sealed published and Declared by the said Testator
556 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who
557 in his presence and at his request and in the presence of
558 each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses
559 John Gresley Jun[io]r Fran[ci]s Ward Geo: Rogers
560 Memorandum I Give to my Friend
561 Mr. William Blake in my Will reserved the Sum of
562 Twenty pounds of Lawful Brittish Money to be paid at
563 the time of my other Legacys by my Will Given and Directed
564 to be paid As Witness my hand this Fifth day of July
565 1770 Richd Blake Witness Fran[ci]s Ward
566 Geo: Rogers
567 This Will was proved at London (with a
568 Codicil) the Eighteenth day of February in the year of our
569 Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy one before the
570 Right Worshipful George Hay Doctor of Laws Master
571 Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
572 Lawfully Constituted by the Oaths of Richard Woodward Doctor
573 of Laws and John Deverell Esquire two of the Executors
574 to whom Administration was Granted they having been first
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575 Sworn by Commission duly to administer William Blake
576 the other Executor named in the said Will having first
577 renounced the Execution thereof
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Will of Mary Blake, widow, Bristol - The National Archives PROB 11/1133/269, probated 3 Sep 1785
Mary Blake, widow of Bristol, is the testatrix. She names two daughters in her will Susanna Woodward and Hannah Deverell. According to Wikipedia Susanna married Richard Woodward 3 October 1763 and her father was identified as Richard Blake of Bristol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woodward_%28bishop%29
Perhaps this note from Gloucestershire Notes and Queries Volume 3, Page 298 may refer to Richard Blake father of Susanna Woodward. In St Werburgh’s Church, Bristol there was this inscription ‘To the memory of Mr Richard Blake, many years an inhabitant of this parish, who died the 3rd day of January, 1771, age 70. In the same vault where his remains are deposited, also are interred Mary Blake, his mother, Samuel and Mary Greenway, whose only daughter he married, and five of his children, who died in their infancy. Likewise the remains of Mary, his wife, who died 21st October, 1781, aged 82.’ “
This is Note 1248 which I will blog separately for my future use as I work through these wills in Gloucestershire. http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
The Will of Richard Blake husband of Mary Blake, present testatrix is to be transcribed in a few days and I will discuss this family in more depth at that time.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 18 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1133/269
Testator: Mary Blake, widow
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 23 Jan 1771, probated 3 Sep 1785
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Mary Blake of the City of Bristol Widow
3 considering with myself the certainty of Death and
4 the uncertainty of the time thereof do this twenty
5 third day of January One thousand Seven hundred
6 and Seventy one make my last Will and Testament
7 in manner following (that is to say) my Soul I
8 recommend into the hands of Almighty God hoping
9 thro the merits Mediation and Intercession of my
10 blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ to obtain
11 full pardon and Remission for all my Sins and my
12 Body I commit to the Earth to be decently Interred
13 at the discretion of my Executrices hereinafter named
14 Item I direct that all my Just Debts and Funeral
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15 Expences be paid off and discharged Item I give devise
16 and bequeath unto my Daughter Susanna Woodward
17 wife of the Reverend Richard Woodward Dean of Clogher
18 in the Kingdom of Ireland all my Table China of
19 what sort soever as also my Gold Watch Gold Chain
20 and Seal my Diamond Ring in memory of my dear
21 Mother deceased and a Small Gold Medall Item I
22 give devise and bequeath unto my other Daughter
23 Hannah Deverell Wife of John Deverell of the said
24 City of Bristol Esquire all my Tea Table and Ornamental
25 China of what sort or kind soever and a Small Gold
26 Medal Item I give devise and bequeath unto my
27 said two Daughters Susanna Woodward and Hannah
28 Deverell all my plate Linen Household Gods and
29 Furniture at my Dwelling House in the Square and
30 at Rendallshire in the County of Gloucester
31 Wearing Apparel Diamond and other Rings Gold buttons
32 and Studes to be equally divided between my said
33 two Daughters share and share alike only I do
34 direct that when the same shall be so divided
35 the said Susanna Woodward shall have the
36 preference as to Choice and I do further direct
37 that such part of my Wearing Apparel and house
38 furniture as my said two Daughters shall not
39 think fit for their own use shall be equally
40 divided between my Cousin Joseph Greenaway and
41 Mary Hatherell Senior with R: Mead also equally
42 share and share alike it being my intention that
43 no part of my said wearing apparel and household
44 furniture shall be sold and disposed of Item I give
45 devise and bequeath unto my said Daughter
46 Susanna Woodward the Sum of Fifty pounds of lawful
47 Money of Great Britain to be by her given and
48 distributed to such poor objects as she shall think fit
49 Item I give devise and bequeath unto my other
50 Daughter Hannah Deverell the like Sum of Fifty
51 pounds of like lawful Money of Great Britain to
52 be by her given and distributed to such poor Objects
53 as she shall think fit Item I give devise and
54 bequeath unto my Son in Law the said Reverend
55 Richard Woodward as a Token of my Great esteem
56 and respect for him the Sum of Two hundred
57 pounds of like lawful Money as also a Silver
58 Medall of the Seven Bishops and a Gold Medall
60 of King Charles the First Item I give devise and
61 bequeath unto my other Son in Law the said John
62 Deverell as a Token of my great esteem and
63 respect for him the like Sum of two hundred
64 pounds of like Money as also a Valuable Silver
65 Medall with an Owl on it Item I give devise and
66 bequeath unto my said Cousin Joseph Greenaway the
67 sum of Fifty pounds of like Money to Ann Baker of Will
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68 Street the Sum of Twenty pounds of like Money To
69 Mrs Mary Adlam the like Sum of Twenty pounds of
70 like Money To Miss Frances Palmer of Bradford in
71 the County of Wilts the like Sum of Twenty pounds
72 of like Money my pinchback Watch and a Ring
73 to her Sister Elizabeth Palmer my God Daughter
74 the like Sum of Twenty pounds my Silver Watch
75 and a Ring to Mary Hatherell Daughter of the
76 said Mary Hatherell the like Sum of Twenty pounds
77 of like Money to Frances Hatherell her Sister the
78 like Sum of Twenty pounds of like Money to Charles
79 Horwood the Elder the Sum of Ten pounds of like
80 Money to Hester Plaster the Sum of Ten pounds of
81 like Money to buy her a Ring and to each of my
82 Servants that shall live with me at my decease
83 and to the Job Coachman the Sum of Ten pounds
84 of like Money each for Mourning Item all the
85 rest residue and remainder of my Estate Goods
86 Chattels and Effects whatsoever which I own unto or
87 shall by any ways or means whatsoever intitled
88 to at my decease I do give devise and bequeath
89 unto my said two Daughters Susanna Woodward
90 and Hannah Deverell to hold to them their
91 Executors Administrators and Assigns as Tenants in
92 Common and I do nominate Constitute and appoint
93 the said Susanna Woodward and Hannah Deverell
94 Sole Executrises of this my last Will and Testament
95 and revoking all former and other Will or Wills
96 by me made do declare this to be my last
97 In Witness whereof I the said Mary Blake have
98 to this my last Will and Testament contained in
99 three Sides of three Sheets of paper to the two
100 first sides set my hand and to this third and
101 last my hand and Seal the day and year
102 above written M Blake Signed Sealed published
103 and declared by the said Testatrix Mary Blake
104 as and for her last Will and Testament in the
105 presence of us who in her presence and at her
106 request and in the presence of each other have
107 subscribed our names as Witnesses Joseph Borwood
108 Not[ar]y pub[lic]k Cha: Borwood Jun[io]r
109 Whereas I Mary Blake of the City of
110 Bristol Widow did duly make and publish my last
111 Will and Testament in Writing bearing date the
112 twenty third day of January 1771 to which is
113 annexed a Codicil dated the thirty first day of July
114 1771 Now I the said Mary Blake the Testatrix
115 do my these presents appoint this another Codicil
116 also to my said last Will hereunto also annexed
117 and I do give and bequeath unto each and
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118 every one of my Grand Children Sons and Daughters
119 of the Reverend Dr Richard Woodward and Susanna his
120 Wife and Sons and Daughters of John Deverell Esquire and
121 Hannah his Wife the Sum of Ten pounds a piece to
122 buy each and every one of them a Ring or to be
123 laid out in a piece of plate for their use as
124 be most fit and Contentment for them as they shall severally
125 attain the Age of Sixteen Years I do also give to
126 my Grand Daughter Louisa Woodward my Sofa I do
127 also give to my Grand Daughter Mary Woodward a Case
128 with _____ Silver handle Knives Forks and Spoons
129 I do also give to my Grand daughter Anna Maria
130 Deverel my Spinnet and Musick Books I do give
131 to John Deverell Esquire Clarendons History of England
132 whereas I lately received and put in my Grand son
133 Francis Blake Woodwards life in an Estate situate
134 lying and being in Old Land in the parish of Bitton
135 in the County of Gloucester in the possession of Christopher
136 Parrish as Tenant Now I do give and bequeath
137 unto my Daughters Susanna Woodward all this said
138 Estate situate and aforesaid to hold to her and her
139 heirs for and during all my Term Estate and Interest
140 therein I do give to Rebecca Mead a Small Flap Table
141 that is made use of in the pantry and I do
142 recommend her to both my Daughters Consideration
143 in regard to part of my Old Wearing Apparel and
144 as I gave to my two Daughters Fifty pounds each
145 that is One Hundred pound in the whole to be by
146 them disposed of to such poor Objects of Charity
147 as they should think proper give me leave to
148 recommend two Objects which I hope youl think
149 worthy your notice one of them is Susanna
150 Glendall and the other Elizabeth Penne and if I am
151 rightly informed both lives on St James’s Back and
152 I desire if they are living at my decease that
153 youl please to give to each of them severally Twenty
154 pounds out of the said Sum of One Hundred pounds
155 given as aforesaid for Charitable uses and I do
156 recommend one other object to your Consideration which
157 I also hope will meet with your approbation and
158 that is Mrs Griffiths near the New Church in Ringswood
159 Twenty pounds if living at my decease if not to
160 her husband for the use of their Children to be
161 applied towards their Education In Witness
162 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal
163 this thirty First day of March 1772 and I do recommend
164 Mr Hatherell also Seniour to have a part of it
165 M Blake
166 Whereas I Mary Blake of the City of
167 Bristol Widow did duly make and publish my last
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168 Will and Testament in Writing bearing date the twenty
169 third day of January 1771 now last past and thereby
170 arising other desires I gave to my Cousin Joseph
171 Greenaway Fifty pounds now I the said Mary Blake
172 the Testatrix do by these presents appoint this
173 Codicil to my said Will hereunto annexed and I do
174 give and bequeath unto my said Cousin Joseph
175 Greenaway a further Sum of One hundred and Fifty
176 pounds with the Sum of Fifty pounds given in my
177 Will as aforesaid making together in the whole the
178 Sum of two hundred pounds of lawful Money of
179 Great Britain and I do also give and bequeath
181 unto my Maid Rebeccah Mead the Sum of Twenty
182 pounds of like lawful Money of Great Britain
183 if she continues to live with me as a Servant at
184 my decease In Witness whereof I have to this Codicil
185 to my said Will set my hand and Seal the thirty
186 first day of July in the year of Our Lord One
187 thousand Seven hundred and Seventy One M Blake
188 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
189 Mary Blake as and for a Codicil to her last Will
190 and Testament in the presence of us Philip Lovegrave
191 Char[le]s Horwood Jun[io]r
192 Novem[be]r 15th 1773 as I have given my
193 Daughter Woodward what China Wair I intend for
194 her I desire my Daughter Deverell may have all
195 the rest I shall have left in Town and in the
196 County and likewise I do desire that Jos
197 Greenaways wife may have of my Cloaths a Silk
198 Gown or a Sacque and petticoat to make her a
199 Gown of good plain Silk not black nor Gray and
200 Sum of my Old things Linnen and Else and I do
201 desire and declare this to be a Codicil to and
202 part of my said Will M: Blake Mem. I would
203 leave only Five pounds to the Job Coachman for a
204 Mourning 5 s Mem. I give to my Daughter Deverill
205 all my Wearing Apparell to dispose of as she shall
206 think proper and I would leave only 5 pounds
207 given to the Cook or Mourning which you think
208 proper I desire R: Mead may have part of my
209 Close as you do not make use of yourself
210 I give Wyatt evat what is lef in my Wil for Mourning
211 is lef to Mead I desire my dear friend Mr Plaisters will _______
211 May 5th 1780 I give to my Daughter Deverell all my Furniture at Rendelshire
213 5th September 1785
214 On which Day appeared personally John Smith of the City
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215 City of Bristol Gentleman and John Deverell of the City
216 of Bristol Esquire and made Oath that they well knew
217 and were acquainted with Mary Blake late of the
218 City of Bristol Widow deceased and with her manner
219 and Character of hand writing and subscription having
220 often seen her write and also subscribe her Name and
221 having now carefully viewed and perused the paper
222 writings hereunto annexed purporting to be and contain
223 a Second third and Fourth Codicil to the last Will
224 and Testament of the said deceased the first of the
225 said Codicils beginning thus “Whereas I Mary Blake
226 of the City of Bristol Widow” and ending thus “I do
227 recommend M: Hatherell also Seniour to have apart
228 of it” and thus subscribed M Blake the Second of the
229 said Codicils beginning thus “Novem[be]r 15th 1773 as I have
230 given my Daughter Woodward what China Wair I
231 intend for her” and ending thus “ I desire R: Mead
232 may have part of my Close as you do not make
233 use of yourself” the third of the said Codicils beginning
234 thus “I give Wyatt evat what is lef to Mead in Mourning” and
235 ending thus “I give to my Daughter Deverell all
236 my Furniture at Rendelshire” do depose and say
237 that they do verily and in their Consciences believe
238 the Name M: Blake subscribed to the first of the
239 said three Codicils together with the whole Body Series
240 and Contents of the Second and third of the said
241 Codicils to be all of the proper handwriting and
242 subscription of the said Mary Blake Widow deceased
243 Jn: Smith John Deverell on the first day of September
244 1785 the said John Smith and John Deverell Esquire
245 were duly sworn to the truth of this Affidavit Before
246 me Edw[ar]d Colston Grevile Comm[issione]r
247 This Will was proved at London with
248 Four Codicils the third day of September in the year of
249 Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Five before
250 the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doctor of Laws Master
251 Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
252 lawfully constituted by the Oaths of Susanna Woodward
253 Wife of the Right Reverend Father in God Richard Lord
254 Bishop of Cloyne in the Kingdom of Ireland and Hannah
255 Deverell Wife of John Deverell Esquire the Daughters of the
256 deceased and the Executrixs named in the said Will to
257 whom Administration was granted of all and singular
258 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased they
259 having been first sworn by Commission duly to Administer
Perhaps this note from Gloucestershire Notes and Queries Volume 3, Page 298 may refer to Richard Blake father of Susanna Woodward. In St Werburgh’s Church, Bristol there was this inscription ‘To the memory of Mr Richard Blake, many years an inhabitant of this parish, who died the 3rd day of January, 1771, age 70. In the same vault where his remains are deposited, also are interred Mary Blake, his mother, Samuel and Mary Greenway, whose only daughter he married, and five of his children, who died in their infancy. Likewise the remains of Mary, his wife, who died 21st October, 1781, aged 82.’ “
This is Note 1248 which I will blog separately for my future use as I work through these wills in Gloucestershire. http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
The Will of Richard Blake husband of Mary Blake, present testatrix is to be transcribed in a few days and I will discuss this family in more depth at that time.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 18 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1133/269
Testator: Mary Blake, widow
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 23 Jan 1771, probated 3 Sep 1785
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Mary Blake of the City of Bristol Widow
3 considering with myself the certainty of Death and
4 the uncertainty of the time thereof do this twenty
5 third day of January One thousand Seven hundred
6 and Seventy one make my last Will and Testament
7 in manner following (that is to say) my Soul I
8 recommend into the hands of Almighty God hoping
9 thro the merits Mediation and Intercession of my
10 blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ to obtain
11 full pardon and Remission for all my Sins and my
12 Body I commit to the Earth to be decently Interred
13 at the discretion of my Executrices hereinafter named
14 Item I direct that all my Just Debts and Funeral
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15 Expences be paid off and discharged Item I give devise
16 and bequeath unto my Daughter Susanna Woodward
17 wife of the Reverend Richard Woodward Dean of Clogher
18 in the Kingdom of Ireland all my Table China of
19 what sort soever as also my Gold Watch Gold Chain
20 and Seal my Diamond Ring in memory of my dear
21 Mother deceased and a Small Gold Medall Item I
22 give devise and bequeath unto my other Daughter
23 Hannah Deverell Wife of John Deverell of the said
24 City of Bristol Esquire all my Tea Table and Ornamental
25 China of what sort or kind soever and a Small Gold
26 Medal Item I give devise and bequeath unto my
27 said two Daughters Susanna Woodward and Hannah
28 Deverell all my plate Linen Household Gods and
29 Furniture at my Dwelling House in the Square and
30 at Rendallshire in the County of Gloucester
31 Wearing Apparel Diamond and other Rings Gold buttons
32 and Studes to be equally divided between my said
33 two Daughters share and share alike only I do
34 direct that when the same shall be so divided
35 the said Susanna Woodward shall have the
36 preference as to Choice and I do further direct
37 that such part of my Wearing Apparel and house
38 furniture as my said two Daughters shall not
39 think fit for their own use shall be equally
40 divided between my Cousin Joseph Greenaway and
41 Mary Hatherell Senior with R: Mead also equally
42 share and share alike it being my intention that
43 no part of my said wearing apparel and household
44 furniture shall be sold and disposed of Item I give
45 devise and bequeath unto my said Daughter
46 Susanna Woodward the Sum of Fifty pounds of lawful
47 Money of Great Britain to be by her given and
48 distributed to such poor objects as she shall think fit
49 Item I give devise and bequeath unto my other
50 Daughter Hannah Deverell the like Sum of Fifty
51 pounds of like lawful Money of Great Britain to
52 be by her given and distributed to such poor Objects
53 as she shall think fit Item I give devise and
54 bequeath unto my Son in Law the said Reverend
55 Richard Woodward as a Token of my Great esteem
56 and respect for him the Sum of Two hundred
57 pounds of like lawful Money as also a Silver
58 Medall of the Seven Bishops and a Gold Medall
60 of King Charles the First Item I give devise and
61 bequeath unto my other Son in Law the said John
62 Deverell as a Token of my great esteem and
63 respect for him the like Sum of two hundred
64 pounds of like Money as also a Valuable Silver
65 Medall with an Owl on it Item I give devise and
66 bequeath unto my said Cousin Joseph Greenaway the
67 sum of Fifty pounds of like Money to Ann Baker of Will
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68 Street the Sum of Twenty pounds of like Money To
69 Mrs Mary Adlam the like Sum of Twenty pounds of
70 like Money To Miss Frances Palmer of Bradford in
71 the County of Wilts the like Sum of Twenty pounds
72 of like Money my pinchback Watch and a Ring
73 to her Sister Elizabeth Palmer my God Daughter
74 the like Sum of Twenty pounds my Silver Watch
75 and a Ring to Mary Hatherell Daughter of the
76 said Mary Hatherell the like Sum of Twenty pounds
77 of like Money to Frances Hatherell her Sister the
78 like Sum of Twenty pounds of like Money to Charles
79 Horwood the Elder the Sum of Ten pounds of like
80 Money to Hester Plaster the Sum of Ten pounds of
81 like Money to buy her a Ring and to each of my
82 Servants that shall live with me at my decease
83 and to the Job Coachman the Sum of Ten pounds
84 of like Money each for Mourning Item all the
85 rest residue and remainder of my Estate Goods
86 Chattels and Effects whatsoever which I own unto or
87 shall by any ways or means whatsoever intitled
88 to at my decease I do give devise and bequeath
89 unto my said two Daughters Susanna Woodward
90 and Hannah Deverell to hold to them their
91 Executors Administrators and Assigns as Tenants in
92 Common and I do nominate Constitute and appoint
93 the said Susanna Woodward and Hannah Deverell
94 Sole Executrises of this my last Will and Testament
95 and revoking all former and other Will or Wills
96 by me made do declare this to be my last
97 In Witness whereof I the said Mary Blake have
98 to this my last Will and Testament contained in
99 three Sides of three Sheets of paper to the two
100 first sides set my hand and to this third and
101 last my hand and Seal the day and year
102 above written M Blake Signed Sealed published
103 and declared by the said Testatrix Mary Blake
104 as and for her last Will and Testament in the
105 presence of us who in her presence and at her
106 request and in the presence of each other have
107 subscribed our names as Witnesses Joseph Borwood
108 Not[ar]y pub[lic]k Cha: Borwood Jun[io]r
109 Whereas I Mary Blake of the City of
110 Bristol Widow did duly make and publish my last
111 Will and Testament in Writing bearing date the
112 twenty third day of January 1771 to which is
113 annexed a Codicil dated the thirty first day of July
114 1771 Now I the said Mary Blake the Testatrix
115 do my these presents appoint this another Codicil
116 also to my said last Will hereunto also annexed
117 and I do give and bequeath unto each and
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118 every one of my Grand Children Sons and Daughters
119 of the Reverend Dr Richard Woodward and Susanna his
120 Wife and Sons and Daughters of John Deverell Esquire and
121 Hannah his Wife the Sum of Ten pounds a piece to
122 buy each and every one of them a Ring or to be
123 laid out in a piece of plate for their use as
124 be most fit and Contentment for them as they shall severally
125 attain the Age of Sixteen Years I do also give to
126 my Grand Daughter Louisa Woodward my Sofa I do
127 also give to my Grand Daughter Mary Woodward a Case
128 with _____ Silver handle Knives Forks and Spoons
129 I do also give to my Grand daughter Anna Maria
130 Deverel my Spinnet and Musick Books I do give
131 to John Deverell Esquire Clarendons History of England
132 whereas I lately received and put in my Grand son
133 Francis Blake Woodwards life in an Estate situate
134 lying and being in Old Land in the parish of Bitton
135 in the County of Gloucester in the possession of Christopher
136 Parrish as Tenant Now I do give and bequeath
137 unto my Daughters Susanna Woodward all this said
138 Estate situate and aforesaid to hold to her and her
139 heirs for and during all my Term Estate and Interest
140 therein I do give to Rebecca Mead a Small Flap Table
141 that is made use of in the pantry and I do
142 recommend her to both my Daughters Consideration
143 in regard to part of my Old Wearing Apparel and
144 as I gave to my two Daughters Fifty pounds each
145 that is One Hundred pound in the whole to be by
146 them disposed of to such poor Objects of Charity
147 as they should think proper give me leave to
148 recommend two Objects which I hope youl think
149 worthy your notice one of them is Susanna
150 Glendall and the other Elizabeth Penne and if I am
151 rightly informed both lives on St James’s Back and
152 I desire if they are living at my decease that
153 youl please to give to each of them severally Twenty
154 pounds out of the said Sum of One Hundred pounds
155 given as aforesaid for Charitable uses and I do
156 recommend one other object to your Consideration which
157 I also hope will meet with your approbation and
158 that is Mrs Griffiths near the New Church in Ringswood
159 Twenty pounds if living at my decease if not to
160 her husband for the use of their Children to be
161 applied towards their Education In Witness
162 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal
163 this thirty First day of March 1772 and I do recommend
164 Mr Hatherell also Seniour to have a part of it
165 M Blake
166 Whereas I Mary Blake of the City of
167 Bristol Widow did duly make and publish my last
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168 Will and Testament in Writing bearing date the twenty
169 third day of January 1771 now last past and thereby
170 arising other desires I gave to my Cousin Joseph
171 Greenaway Fifty pounds now I the said Mary Blake
172 the Testatrix do by these presents appoint this
173 Codicil to my said Will hereunto annexed and I do
174 give and bequeath unto my said Cousin Joseph
175 Greenaway a further Sum of One hundred and Fifty
176 pounds with the Sum of Fifty pounds given in my
177 Will as aforesaid making together in the whole the
178 Sum of two hundred pounds of lawful Money of
179 Great Britain and I do also give and bequeath
181 unto my Maid Rebeccah Mead the Sum of Twenty
182 pounds of like lawful Money of Great Britain
183 if she continues to live with me as a Servant at
184 my decease In Witness whereof I have to this Codicil
185 to my said Will set my hand and Seal the thirty
186 first day of July in the year of Our Lord One
187 thousand Seven hundred and Seventy One M Blake
188 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
189 Mary Blake as and for a Codicil to her last Will
190 and Testament in the presence of us Philip Lovegrave
191 Char[le]s Horwood Jun[io]r
192 Novem[be]r 15th 1773 as I have given my
193 Daughter Woodward what China Wair I intend for
194 her I desire my Daughter Deverell may have all
195 the rest I shall have left in Town and in the
196 County and likewise I do desire that Jos
197 Greenaways wife may have of my Cloaths a Silk
198 Gown or a Sacque and petticoat to make her a
199 Gown of good plain Silk not black nor Gray and
200 Sum of my Old things Linnen and Else and I do
201 desire and declare this to be a Codicil to and
202 part of my said Will M: Blake Mem. I would
203 leave only Five pounds to the Job Coachman for a
204 Mourning 5 s Mem. I give to my Daughter Deverill
205 all my Wearing Apparell to dispose of as she shall
206 think proper and I would leave only 5 pounds
207 given to the Cook or Mourning which you think
208 proper I desire R: Mead may have part of my
209 Close as you do not make use of yourself
210 I give Wyatt evat what is lef in my Wil for Mourning
211 is lef to Mead I desire my dear friend Mr Plaisters will _______
211 May 5th 1780 I give to my Daughter Deverell all my Furniture at Rendelshire
213 5th September 1785
214 On which Day appeared personally John Smith of the City
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215 City of Bristol Gentleman and John Deverell of the City
216 of Bristol Esquire and made Oath that they well knew
217 and were acquainted with Mary Blake late of the
218 City of Bristol Widow deceased and with her manner
219 and Character of hand writing and subscription having
220 often seen her write and also subscribe her Name and
221 having now carefully viewed and perused the paper
222 writings hereunto annexed purporting to be and contain
223 a Second third and Fourth Codicil to the last Will
224 and Testament of the said deceased the first of the
225 said Codicils beginning thus “Whereas I Mary Blake
226 of the City of Bristol Widow” and ending thus “I do
227 recommend M: Hatherell also Seniour to have apart
228 of it” and thus subscribed M Blake the Second of the
229 said Codicils beginning thus “Novem[be]r 15th 1773 as I have
230 given my Daughter Woodward what China Wair I
231 intend for her” and ending thus “ I desire R: Mead
232 may have part of my Close as you do not make
233 use of yourself” the third of the said Codicils beginning
234 thus “I give Wyatt evat what is lef to Mead in Mourning” and
235 ending thus “I give to my Daughter Deverell all
236 my Furniture at Rendelshire” do depose and say
237 that they do verily and in their Consciences believe
238 the Name M: Blake subscribed to the first of the
239 said three Codicils together with the whole Body Series
240 and Contents of the Second and third of the said
241 Codicils to be all of the proper handwriting and
242 subscription of the said Mary Blake Widow deceased
243 Jn: Smith John Deverell on the first day of September
244 1785 the said John Smith and John Deverell Esquire
245 were duly sworn to the truth of this Affidavit Before
246 me Edw[ar]d Colston Grevile Comm[issione]r
247 This Will was proved at London with
248 Four Codicils the third day of September in the year of
249 Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Five before
250 the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doctor of Laws Master
251 Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
252 lawfully constituted by the Oaths of Susanna Woodward
253 Wife of the Right Reverend Father in God Richard Lord
254 Bishop of Cloyne in the Kingdom of Ireland and Hannah
255 Deverell Wife of John Deverell Esquire the Daughters of the
256 deceased and the Executrixs named in the said Will to
257 whom Administration was granted of all and singular
258 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased they
259 having been first sworn by Commission duly to Administer
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Will of John Blake, Clerk, Feyreford, Gloucestershire - The National Archives PROB 11/37/293, probated 4 Apr 1555
This, the will of John Blake, Cleric gives as his location Fairford, Gloucestershire but in the Diocese of Worcester. It isn’t particularly close to any known Blake area. From the Blake Pedigree Chart held at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office there is a John Blake Lord Abbot of Cirencester in County Gloucestershire. The time frame would be similar to this John. He does not, however, mention any family although his brother William would be living in Lacock in this time period. Feyreford is nine miles east of Cirencester. This is after the dissolution of the monasteries during the Reign of Henry VIII which continued through the Reign of Edward VI. The fate of the Lord Abbot of Cirencester is unknown and could he have moved on to Feyreford where there was a house that still remained? There was a large church there dedicated to Saint Mary.
I still have about 70 wills from the Gloucestershire Record Office and included in that group are more wills from this early time period.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/37/293
Testator: John Blake, Clerk
Place: Feyreford, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Jan 1552, probated 4 Apr 1555
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Joh[an]n Blake clerc
1 In dei nomine Amen seconde die Januarij Anno d[omi]ni Mell[is]imo quinqentisimo quinquagesimo
2 secondo et Anno Regni d[omi]ni uird Edwardi Sexti dei gracia Anglie Franciae et Hibernie Rexs fidei
3 defensores et in terra Ecclesia[e] Anglicane et Hibernice supremum capits Sexto I Joh[an]n Blake of
4 Feyreford in the dioc[ese] of Wurcestor Clerke being sicke in bodye and hole of mynd and in parfict
5 Remembrannce do make and ordeyne this my last will and testament in maner and forme folowinge
6 First I bequeathe my soule to th[e ]handes of Almyghtie god my Savior and Redemer whiche by the power
7 of his most precious blod have delyv[er]ed me from all my synnes and reconciled me unto god the father
8 by the merits of his deathe and my bodye to be buried wher yt shall please myne Executours John Hill and
9 John Dawbeney Jun[jior] my servantes and this to paye all my debts whiche I do owe And also to parforme
10 and paye all my legacies as hereafter folowith Fyrst I bequeathe and give to the poore mens boxe
11 In FeyreFord iijs viij d Item I bequeathe to John Wall my chapelyn Sixe pounds in money and A gowne
12 Item I give to Thomas Liggen gentleman xl s and his lyverie Item I give to Thomas Clarke my s[er]vant
13 Twenty shillings in money and his lyverie Item to Richard Merynge xxxv s iiij d and his lyverye Item
14 to Willyam Carter xxxiiij s and his lyv[er]ye Item to Roger Wyatt xxvj s vij d and his lyv[er]ye Item to
15 Richard Hall xxvj s viij d and his lyverie Item to John Faregose xxxs and his Lyverye Item to
16 Reynold Hooles xxxs and his lyverie Item to Richard Woodward xxs and his Lyverie Item to
17 Margery Levcy xxv s and one petycote Item to Faith Bryger xxiij s and one petycote Item to
18 Katheryn Ewen xxiij s and one peticote All this I give ev[er]y of them in full payment of their wages
19 and lyvereys All the rest of my goodes and cattalls moveable and unmoveable not given nor
20 bequeathed after my debts and Legacies be fully contentyd and paide and my funeral done I give
21 and bequeathe unto John Hill and John Dawbeney Jun[ior] above said my s[er]vantes whom I make and
22 ordeyne my sole Executors And further I make Overseers of this my last Will and testament Sir
23 Anthony Kyngston knight Sir Walter Buckeler knight and John George gent to the intent that they
24 shall see all my debts and Legacies abovesaid paide and fulfilled and myne Executors quyatly to
25 Incyon all the rest of my goodes above bequeathed and geven to them And they and ev[er]y of them myne
26 Overseers abovesaid to have for their Labors and paynes in the premises fower marks apece in money
27 to be paid to them by myne Executors Thes p[er]sons insigng baring wytnes of this my last will
28 Mathew Glame they being Curate Richard Stychall Richard More Thomas Smieth
29 Willyam Grene By me John Blake prest
30 Probatum fuit testum apud London coram et Capitlo Ecclie Metrovo xxi Cant
31 Sei Archie pali ibin Jain Vacan quarto die mensis Aprilis Anno domini Millesimo quingentisimo quinqua
32 gesimo quinto Juramento Johis Dawbeney Executor in humoi testament noiat ac approbatum etc
33 insumatum etc comissa fuit adminstraro omi bonor etc defuncti preset etc de bene et fideler
34 administrand ead Acde pleno Juro etc Exhibend Ao sumta dei Singelia Jurate Johanne Hill
35 Executore etiam in humoi testament moiate demortico
I still have about 70 wills from the Gloucestershire Record Office and included in that group are more wills from this early time period.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/37/293
Testator: John Blake, Clerk
Place: Feyreford, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Jan 1552, probated 4 Apr 1555
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Joh[an]n Blake clerc
1 In dei nomine Amen seconde die Januarij Anno d[omi]ni Mell[is]imo quinqentisimo quinquagesimo
2 secondo et Anno Regni d[omi]ni uird Edwardi Sexti dei gracia Anglie Franciae et Hibernie Rexs fidei
3 defensores et in terra Ecclesia[e] Anglicane et Hibernice supremum capits Sexto I Joh[an]n Blake of
4 Feyreford in the dioc[ese] of Wurcestor Clerke being sicke in bodye and hole of mynd and in parfict
5 Remembrannce do make and ordeyne this my last will and testament in maner and forme folowinge
6 First I bequeathe my soule to th[e ]handes of Almyghtie god my Savior and Redemer whiche by the power
7 of his most precious blod have delyv[er]ed me from all my synnes and reconciled me unto god the father
8 by the merits of his deathe and my bodye to be buried wher yt shall please myne Executours John Hill and
9 John Dawbeney Jun[jior] my servantes and this to paye all my debts whiche I do owe And also to parforme
10 and paye all my legacies as hereafter folowith Fyrst I bequeathe and give to the poore mens boxe
11 In FeyreFord iijs viij d Item I bequeathe to John Wall my chapelyn Sixe pounds in money and A gowne
12 Item I give to Thomas Liggen gentleman xl s and his lyverie Item I give to Thomas Clarke my s[er]vant
13 Twenty shillings in money and his lyverie Item to Richard Merynge xxxv s iiij d and his lyverye Item
14 to Willyam Carter xxxiiij s and his lyv[er]ye Item to Roger Wyatt xxvj s vij d and his lyv[er]ye Item to
15 Richard Hall xxvj s viij d and his lyverie Item to John Faregose xxxs and his Lyverye Item to
16 Reynold Hooles xxxs and his lyverie Item to Richard Woodward xxs and his Lyverie Item to
17 Margery Levcy xxv s and one petycote Item to Faith Bryger xxiij s and one petycote Item to
18 Katheryn Ewen xxiij s and one peticote All this I give ev[er]y of them in full payment of their wages
19 and lyvereys All the rest of my goodes and cattalls moveable and unmoveable not given nor
20 bequeathed after my debts and Legacies be fully contentyd and paide and my funeral done I give
21 and bequeathe unto John Hill and John Dawbeney Jun[ior] above said my s[er]vantes whom I make and
22 ordeyne my sole Executors And further I make Overseers of this my last Will and testament Sir
23 Anthony Kyngston knight Sir Walter Buckeler knight and John George gent to the intent that they
24 shall see all my debts and Legacies abovesaid paide and fulfilled and myne Executors quyatly to
25 Incyon all the rest of my goodes above bequeathed and geven to them And they and ev[er]y of them myne
26 Overseers abovesaid to have for their Labors and paynes in the premises fower marks apece in money
27 to be paid to them by myne Executors Thes p[er]sons insigng baring wytnes of this my last will
28 Mathew Glame they being Curate Richard Stychall Richard More Thomas Smieth
29 Willyam Grene By me John Blake prest
30 Probatum fuit testum apud London coram et Capitlo Ecclie Metrovo xxi Cant
31 Sei Archie pali ibin Jain Vacan quarto die mensis Aprilis Anno domini Millesimo quingentisimo quinqua
32 gesimo quinto Juramento Johis Dawbeney Executor in humoi testament noiat ac approbatum etc
33 insumatum etc comissa fuit adminstraro omi bonor etc defuncti preset etc de bene et fideler
34 administrand ead Acde pleno Juro etc Exhibend Ao sumta dei Singelia Jurate Johanne Hill
35 Executore etiam in humoi testament moiate demortico
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