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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Thomas Blackerby of Stow Market in the County of Suffolk Esq:r tho at this present infirme in body yet being praised bee God of sound memory and perfect understanding revoakeing all former Wills by mee at any time heretofore made doe make this my last Will and testament in manner and forme following
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IN THE FIRST PLACE I recommend my Soule into the hands of Allmighty God my Creator hopeing and stedfastly beleiving through his mercy and the pretious merrits of Christ Jesus jis blood to bee washed from all my sinns and for ever to bee received into Eternall blisse with my deare Saviour whome I have for above threescore yeares and doe still desire sincerely with my soule nad body to love serve and beleive in for my only Redeemer and Advocate And I order my body to be decently Interred in the Chauncell of the Church in Stowmarket aforesaid where severall of my Relations are buries
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And as to that Worldly Estate whereiwth it hath pleased God to blesse mee I dispose thereof as followeth
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IMPRIMIS I give and devise to my deare and loveing wife Katherine my two Mannours of Thorney Campsey and Thorney keys als Kebles w:th
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all the righte members and appurtenances to them or either of them belonginge in Stowe Upland Medlesham and ?Giffping or in any other Towne or Townes thereunto neare adjoyning in the said County of Suffolk And all that Capitall Messuage or ffarme called Saint Thomas Hall als Browne Baston or by whatsoever other name or names the same bee called or knowne with the lands meadowes pasture underwoods and other the Appurtenances conteining together one hundred and forty Acres bee the same more or less situate in Stowe Upland Medndlesham and ?Gipping aforesaid and Earle Stonham now or heretofore in the occupation of Margaret Clarke widdowe or her Assignes shee keeping the same in Tenantable reparations and committing noe strip or waste To hold the same to her and her Assignes for and dureing the terme of her naturall life Alsoe I give to the said Katherine my wife the summe of thirty pounds to bee paid to her within one yeare neyt after my decease and a necklace of pearle one gold chaine one Jewell that shee usually weares one silver porringer one silver spoone my owne  picture edged with gold to weare by her side one feathered boulster bedstead pillowes blankets rug and all other furniture in or belonging to the Chamber in my dwelling house where my sister Pendleton late lay six pewter plates whereon my Coate of Armes bee engraven and my best Chariot and one paire of Coach harnesse
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ITEM I give to Blackerby ffairfax sonne of my Cosen Nathaniell ffairfax Doctor of Physicke and his heires my Revertion or Remainder expectant after the death of the wife of John Heyward of ?Dimbleston of one Messuage with the Appurtenances in Ipswich streete in Stowmarket aforesaid now or late in the occupation of  Beniamine Langham and others and was formely an Escheat to my Mannour of Stowmarket by the Attainder of one Stopes for felony whoe was Attainted and Executed for the same Alsoe I give to the said Blackerby ffairefax his Executors and Assignes my Interest or Terme of yeares in a Coachhouse w:ch I built and have by Lease for ninety yeares or thereabouts from the Townesmen of Stowmarket which adjoyned to Samuel Pulfords house and abuts upon the Churchyard towards the North
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ITEM I give to the poore of Stowmarket Church by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poore there for the time being and afterwards the same day distributed by them with the consent of the Minister there for the time being to thirteene poore people to bee elected by them for that purpose which shall constantly frequent the Church unlesse they bee hundred by sicknesse or other impotency after they are appointed to receive the charity
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ITEM I give to two honest poore men of Stowmarket aforesaid and to one of Stow Upland vizt . To every of them a Cloath gowne of a violet color at such times and in such manner as is hereafter nominated and appointed by this my Will successively the same to bee faced with yellow bayes or serge and the Letters T.B. to bee set in the sleeves or breast of every gowne and those that weare the same gownes sgall from time to time bee appointed by the Minister Church Wardens and Overseers of the poore of Stowmarket and Stowupland for the time being and three other substantiall Inhabitants there whereof one to bee of Stowupland or the major parte of them And for this purpose I will that foure pounds every fourth yeare for ever shall bee paid to the Churchwardens and Overseeres of the said respective parishes for the time being the first paym:t to bee made in the fifth yeare after my decease in the moneth of October and from thenceforth every fourth yeare successively in the same moneth for ever
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ITEM I give for ever hereafter to the Minister of Stowmarket aforesaid for the
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===British Library===
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Blackerby (Thomas). of the E. India Co. Letters to Sir G. Oxenden 1662-1667.
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Add. 40696 f. 167
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Add. 40700 f. 188
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Add. 40711 f. 17 (copy)
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Add. 40712 ff. 17, 48 b (copies)
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Add. 40713 f. 4 (copy)
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===Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch===
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[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=173-ee1&cid=9-1-1&kw=thomas%20blackerby#9-1-1 Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch: Aldeburgh Borough Records: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS  [no ref. or date]: ELECTION INDENTURES  [no ref. or date]: Indenture of the election of John Bence, London, Esq. as Member of Parliament for the Borough  EE1/K1/1  2nd November - 9th November, 1669]
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- Contents: With writ of Thomas Blackerby, Sheriff, attached. 2nd November, 1669.
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===Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch===
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[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=174-fl507&cid=2-7-1&kw=thomas%20blackerby#2-7-1 Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch: Badwell Ash Parish Records: CLERGY  FL507/3  [n.d.]: Mortgage  FL507/3/36  1689]
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- Contents: Mortgage of parsonage and all income belonging to the same by the administrator of the estate of the late Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket to Elizabeth Barnardiston of Kedington, with assignment of remainder of mortgage term on 2 messuages in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich and another in St. Stephen's, Norwich
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===Surrey History Centre===
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[http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_G20 Surrey History Centre: PROPERTY IN SURREY AND ELSEWHERE: DEEDS AND PAPERS, 1573-1827: G20/2/23: Bargain and sale 1) Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket, esq 2) William Mayes of Stanton, Suffolk, clothier, 10 Oct 1671]
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- Bargain and sale 1) Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket, esq 2) William May of Radwell, clothier. Bases meadow, Hunston, Suffolk. Consideration: £43. Signed and sealed
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C 9/294/17 Blackerby v. Barnadiston 1698
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C 9/294/51 Barnardiston v. Barnardiston and Blackerby 1694
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C 9/294/61 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1694
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C 9/295/14 Blackerby v. Goodyeare 1692
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C 9/295/34 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1698
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C 9/314/61 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1702
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C 9/314/63 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1702
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C 9/316/22 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1694
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C 9/316/37 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1694
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C 9/337/4 Micoe v. Blackerby 1693
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C 9/437/20 Blackerby v. Barnardiston, knt. 1698
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C 9/456/18 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1703
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C 9/457/100 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1693
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C 10/119/4 Blackerby v. Howe: Suff 1660
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C 10/282/3 Barnardiston, Blackerby, Bowles v. Micow, Harrison: Middx 1691
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C 10/284/5 Blackerby, Barnardiston, Bowles, Stewart v. Micoe, Harrison: Middx 1692
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C 10/290/21 Richard Lloyd v Sir Thomas Barnardiston baronet, Sir Samuel Barnardiston baronet, Thomas Death, Samuel Blackerby and Mary his wife and others: Cakewell, Gomersall and others, Yorkshire. Bill and two answers 1695
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PROB 4/12568 Blackerby, Samuel, of Stowmarket, Suff, clerke 1675 9 Feb.
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PROB 11/141 Swann 1-66 Will of John Blackerby, Yeoman of Wilton, Norfolk 13 May 1623
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PROB 11/147 Clarke 103-147 Will of Edward Blackerby, Clothworker of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, City of London 22 November 1625
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PROB 11/167 Sadler 1-44 Will of Sir John Poley of Saint Peter Stowmarket, Suffolk 29 April 1635
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PROB 11/231 Brent 319-367 Will of William Methwold 15 April 1653
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PROB 11/314 Bruce 49-96 Will of Sir William Poley of Boxted, Suffolk 19 June 1664
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PROB 11/347 Dycer 1-51 Will of Samuel Blackerby, Clerk of Stowmarket, Suffolk 09 February 1675
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PROB 11/380 Cann 52-107 Will of Barnaby Bowtell of Parham, Suffolk 22 May 1685
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- Probably Barnaby Bowtell (b. 1609?, d. ?1684) of Parnham Hall, Suffolk.  Parnham Hall was located XXXX.  An Archaeological Excavation report, 2005, states that Katherine Blackerby, nee Bowtell, was the niece of a Batholomew Gosnold.  She is buried at St. Peter and St. Mary's Church, Stowmarket<ref>'Summary', p. iii, in ''APVA excavations at Shelley & Stowmarket churches, Suffolk (SHY 004 & SKT 015'' (Ipswich, 2005), pub. at http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-415-1/dissemination/pdf/suffolkc1-11090.pdf, viewed 11/02/12</ref>
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PROB 11/396 Ent 91-138 Will of Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket, Suffolk 27 August 1689, pp. 11
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PROB 11/443 Lort 1-44 Will of William Bowtell, Merchant of London 20 January 1698
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PROB 11/545 Fagg 39-79 Will of Samuel Blackerby of Grays Inn, Middlesex 14 April 1715

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Thomas Blackerby of Stow Market in the County of Suffolk Esq:r tho at this present infirme in body yet being praised bee God of sound memory and perfect understanding revoakeing all former Wills by mee at any time heretofore made doe make this my last Will and testament in manner and forme following

IN THE FIRST PLACE I recommend my Soule into the hands of Allmighty God my Creator hopeing and stedfastly beleiving through his mercy and the pretious merrits of Christ Jesus jis blood to bee washed from all my sinns and for ever to bee received into Eternall blisse with my deare Saviour whome I have for above threescore yeares and doe still desire sincerely with my soule nad body to love serve and beleive in for my only Redeemer and Advocate And I order my body to be decently Interred in the Chauncell of the Church in Stowmarket aforesaid where severall of my Relations are buries

And as to that Worldly Estate whereiwth it hath pleased God to blesse mee I dispose thereof as followeth

IMPRIMIS I give and devise to my deare and loveing wife Katherine my two Mannours of Thorney Campsey and Thorney keys als Kebles w:th

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all the righte members and appurtenances to them or either of them belonginge in Stowe Upland Medlesham and ?Giffping or in any other Towne or Townes thereunto neare adjoyning in the said County of Suffolk And all that Capitall Messuage or ffarme called Saint Thomas Hall als Browne Baston or by whatsoever other name or names the same bee called or knowne with the lands meadowes pasture underwoods and other the Appurtenances conteining together one hundred and forty Acres bee the same more or less situate in Stowe Upland Medndlesham and ?Gipping aforesaid and Earle Stonham now or heretofore in the occupation of Margaret Clarke widdowe or her Assignes shee keeping the same in Tenantable reparations and committing noe strip or waste To hold the same to her and her Assignes for and dureing the terme of her naturall life Alsoe I give to the said Katherine my wife the summe of thirty pounds to bee paid to her within one yeare neyt after my decease and a necklace of pearle one gold chaine one Jewell that shee usually weares one silver porringer one silver spoone my owne picture edged with gold to weare by her side one feathered boulster bedstead pillowes blankets rug and all other furniture in or belonging to the Chamber in my dwelling house where my sister Pendleton late lay six pewter plates whereon my Coate of Armes bee engraven and my best Chariot and one paire of Coach harnesse

ITEM I give to Blackerby ffairfax sonne of my Cosen Nathaniell ffairfax Doctor of Physicke and his heires my Revertion or Remainder expectant after the death of the wife of John Heyward of ?Dimbleston of one Messuage with the Appurtenances in Ipswich streete in Stowmarket aforesaid now or late in the occupation of Beniamine Langham and others and was formely an Escheat to my Mannour of Stowmarket by the Attainder of one Stopes for felony whoe was Attainted and Executed for the same Alsoe I give to the said Blackerby ffairefax his Executors and Assignes my Interest or Terme of yeares in a Coachhouse w:ch I built and have by Lease for ninety yeares or thereabouts from the Townesmen of Stowmarket which adjoyned to Samuel Pulfords house and abuts upon the Churchyard towards the North

ITEM I give to the poore of Stowmarket Church by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poore there for the time being and afterwards the same day distributed by them with the consent of the Minister there for the time being to thirteene poore people to bee elected by them for that purpose which shall constantly frequent the Church unlesse they bee hundred by sicknesse or other impotency after they are appointed to receive the charity

ITEM I give to two honest poore men of Stowmarket aforesaid and to one of Stow Upland vizt . To every of them a Cloath gowne of a violet color at such times and in such manner as is hereafter nominated and appointed by this my Will successively the same to bee faced with yellow bayes or serge and the Letters T.B. to bee set in the sleeves or breast of every gowne and those that weare the same gownes sgall from time to time bee appointed by the Minister Church Wardens and Overseers of the poore of Stowmarket and Stowupland for the time being and three other substantiall Inhabitants there whereof one to bee of Stowupland or the major parte of them And for this purpose I will that foure pounds every fourth yeare for ever shall bee paid to the Churchwardens and Overseeres of the said respective parishes for the time being the first paym:t to bee made in the fifth yeare after my decease in the moneth of October and from thenceforth every fourth yeare successively in the same moneth for ever

ITEM I give for ever hereafter to the Minister of Stowmarket aforesaid for the

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Notes



Possible primary sources

British Library


Blackerby (Thomas). of the E. India Co. Letters to Sir G. Oxenden 1662-1667.
Add. 40696 f. 167
Add. 40700 f. 188
Add. 40711 f. 17 (copy)
Add. 40712 ff. 17, 48 b (copies)
Add. 40713 f. 4 (copy)


Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch


Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch: Aldeburgh Borough Records: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [no ref. or date: ELECTION INDENTURES [no ref. or date]: Indenture of the election of John Bence, London, Esq. as Member of Parliament for the Borough EE1/K1/1 2nd November - 9th November, 1669]
- Contents: With writ of Thomas Blackerby, Sheriff, attached. 2nd November, 1669.


Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch


Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch: Badwell Ash Parish Records: CLERGY FL507/3 [n.d.: Mortgage FL507/3/36 1689]
- Contents: Mortgage of parsonage and all income belonging to the same by the administrator of the estate of the late Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket to Elizabeth Barnardiston of Kedington, with assignment of remainder of mortgage term on 2 messuages in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich and another in St. Stephen's, Norwich


Surrey History Centre


Surrey History Centre: PROPERTY IN SURREY AND ELSEWHERE: DEEDS AND PAPERS, 1573-1827: G20/2/23: Bargain and sale 1) Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket, esq 2) William Mayes of Stanton, Suffolk, clothier, 10 Oct 1671
- Bargain and sale 1) Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket, esq 2) William May of Radwell, clothier. Bases meadow, Hunston, Suffolk. Consideration: £43. Signed and sealed


TNA


C 9/294/17 Blackerby v. Barnadiston 1698
C 9/294/51 Barnardiston v. Barnardiston and Blackerby 1694
C 9/294/61 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1694
C 9/295/14 Blackerby v. Goodyeare 1692
C 9/295/34 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1698
C 9/314/61 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1702
C 9/314/63 Blackerby v. Barnardiston 1702
C 9/316/22 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1694
C 9/316/37 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1694
C 9/337/4 Micoe v. Blackerby 1693
C 9/437/20 Blackerby v. Barnardiston, knt. 1698
C 9/456/18 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1703
C 9/457/100 Barnardiston v. Blackerby 1693

C 10/119/4 Blackerby v. Howe: Suff 1660
C 10/282/3 Barnardiston, Blackerby, Bowles v. Micow, Harrison: Middx 1691
C 10/284/5 Blackerby, Barnardiston, Bowles, Stewart v. Micoe, Harrison: Middx 1692
C 10/290/21 Richard Lloyd v Sir Thomas Barnardiston baronet, Sir Samuel Barnardiston baronet, Thomas Death, Samuel Blackerby and Mary his wife and others: Cakewell, Gomersall and others, Yorkshire. Bill and two answers 1695

PROB 4/12568 Blackerby, Samuel, of Stowmarket, Suff, clerke 1675 9 Feb.

PROB 11/141 Swann 1-66 Will of John Blackerby, Yeoman of Wilton, Norfolk 13 May 1623
PROB 11/147 Clarke 103-147 Will of Edward Blackerby, Clothworker of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, City of London 22 November 1625
PROB 11/167 Sadler 1-44 Will of Sir John Poley of Saint Peter Stowmarket, Suffolk 29 April 1635
PROB 11/231 Brent 319-367 Will of William Methwold 15 April 1653
PROB 11/314 Bruce 49-96 Will of Sir William Poley of Boxted, Suffolk 19 June 1664
PROB 11/347 Dycer 1-51 Will of Samuel Blackerby, Clerk of Stowmarket, Suffolk 09 February 1675
PROB 11/380 Cann 52-107 Will of Barnaby Bowtell of Parham, Suffolk 22 May 1685
- Probably Barnaby Bowtell (b. 1609?, d. ?1684) of Parnham Hall, Suffolk. Parnham Hall was located XXXX. An Archaeological Excavation report, 2005, states that Katherine Blackerby, nee Bowtell, was the niece of a Batholomew Gosnold. She is buried at St. Peter and St. Mary's Church, Stowmarket[1]
PROB 11/396 Ent 91-138 Will of Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket, Suffolk 27 August 1689, pp. 11
PROB 11/443 Lort 1-44 Will of William Bowtell, Merchant of London 20 January 1698

PROB 11/545 Fagg 39-79 Will of Samuel Blackerby of Grays Inn, Middlesex 14 April 1715
  1. ↑ 'Summary', p. iii, in APVA excavations at Shelley & Stowmarket churches, Suffolk (SHY 004 & SKT 015 (Ipswich, 2005), pub. at http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-415-1/dissemination/pdf/suffolkc1-11090.pdf, viewed 11/02/12

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