Robert Blake may or may not be on the Jonah (not known if this is Merchant Marine or Royal Navy, nothing found online). It isn’t really possible to tell that. His sister is Elizabeth Blake and a friend perhaps Dorothy Windsor.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 2 Oct 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/177
Name of testator: Robert Blake
Place: unknown
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 20 Feb 1637, probated 4 Sep 1638
[In margin]: Tm Robti Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen etc Item to George
2 Scavis on the Jonah all my bedding to be delivered him presently after my death Item to
3 Robert Seri__nt in the said ship, my Cloth Cote to be delivered as it is aforesaid Item the whole
4 remainder of my estate whatsoever I give unto my sister Elizabeth Blake and Dorothy Windsor
5 to be equally devided betweene them and doe ordayne the sayd Elizabeth Blake and Dorothy Windsor
6 to be my joynt executrixes dated the Tweneth of February One thousand sixe hundred thirtie
7 seaven Robert Blake Sealed and delivered in the presence of Hugh Owen John Clarke
8 Probatum fuit testamentum suprascript[um] apud London coram Johanne Exton legum doctore
9 Surrogato venerabilis viro dui henrici Marten militis legum etiam doctoris Curie Prerogative Cant[uariensis] Mag[ist]ro
10 Custodis siue Com[m]issarij legitime constitute[o] Quarto die mensis Septembris Anno domini mill[es]imo Sexcentesimo
11 tricesimo Octavo Juramentis Elizabethe Blake et Dorothee Windsor executoris in h[uius]modi Testamento
12 nominati Quibus comissa fuit administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum iurium et creditorium dicti
13 defuncti de bene et fideliter administrand eadem Ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurat ex[a]m[inatus]
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