Will of Joan Blake of Minehead, with attached “true and perfect inventory of all [th]e goods and chattles of Joane Blake of Mynhead widow ...” [manuscript], 1695.

[Somerset], 29 January 1695 [that is, 1696]

1 item ; 32 x 35 cm

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Stored as a folded packet of paper and vellum; awaiting rehousing.
Holes and tears, especially where stiff vellum has abraided the paper.

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From dealer's description: "7. [BLAKE, Joan.] [Will of Joan Blake of Minehead, with attached "true and perfect inventory of all ye goods and chattles of Joane Blake of Mynhead widow ..."] [Somerset?, 29 January 1695.] ]Manuscript, ink on paper (32 x 35cm) 25 lines in English, with additional inventory attached on single sheet of paper (15 x 35cm) & further attached ecclesiastical probate certificate on vellum (16 x 16cm) with embossed ecclesiastical seal (Taunton) appended at foot, some light wear along old folds, very good. A good example of a woman's manuscript will of the late seventeenth century. Dated to 1695, Joan Blake of Minehead in Somerset apportions ten pounds to her daughter, "one piece of gold called a Jacobus" to her grandsons Samuel, and Thomas, and to her granddaughter Sarah Blake "on piece of Spanish gold with a cross". Her granddaughter Susanna Blake was to receive "one silver porringer and a silver spoon" The attached manuscript "true and perfect inventory of all ye goods and chattles of Joane Blake of Mynhead widow ..." listing her belongings, includes: "twelve silver spoones ... pewter ... wearing apparell ... a great spruce chest ... a silk quilt ... two turkey carpets ... one Spanish table ... two looking glasses ..." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9589, 2022-05-09, Cat. 32 item 7.

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