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Family and Education
bap. 27 Sept. 1599, 1st s. of Humphrey Blake of St Mary the Virgin, Bridgwater and Sarah, and Sarah (bur. 24 Dec. 1638), da. and coh. of John Williams of Pawlett, wid. of one Smithers; bro. of Alexander*.Bridgwater St Mary par. reg.; Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xi), 121; C.L. Stott, ‘Humphrey Blake...and his descendants in New Eng. and S. Carolina’, New Eng. Historical and Genealogical Reg. clxiii. 203-11. educ. Bridgwater g.s.;[J. Oldmixon], The Hist. and Life of Robert Blake [1740], 3-4. St Alban Hall, Oxf. 26 Jan. 1616, transferred Wadham, BA 10 Feb. 1618.Al. Ox. unm. suc. fa. 1625.Bridgwater St Mary par. reg. d. 7 Aug. 1657.CSP Dom. 1657-8, p. 57; Westminster Abbey Regs. 150, 521-2 .
Offices Held

Civic: ?freeman, Dorchester 30 July 1629.Recs. of Dorchester, ed. Mayo, 425.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of ?William Strode I*, 1642 – 43; lt.-col. regt. of Alexander Popham* by 1644;BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; CSP Dom. 1644, p. 335; SP28/17, f. 80. col. of ft. by 1645.CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 38. Gov. Taunton July 1644-bef. June 1647.LJ ix. 238b. Gen.-at-sea, 24 Feb. 1649, 28 Feb. 1651, 26 Nov. 1652, 17 Dec. 1653.A. and O.; CJ vi. 543b, vii. 222a, 362a; Soc. Antiq. MS 444A, ff. 9v-10.

Local: commr. sequestration, Som. 27 Mar. 1643; commr. for Som. 1 July 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1656, 9 June 1657;A. and O. sewers, Jan. 1646–d.;C181/5, f. 268v; C181/6, pp. 74, 154. militia, 2 Dec. 1648. Feb. 1650 – d.A. and O. J.p. by; Essex, Mdx., Surr. Mar. 1655 – d.; Kent Mar. 1656–d.C231/6, pp. 306, 307, 328; QS Recs. Som. Commonwealth, p. xxi. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 9–235. ejecting scandalous ministers, Som. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Religious: elder, Taunton, Bridgwater and Dunster classis, Som. 1647.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 421.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs, 12 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 138b. Cllr. of state, 25 Nov. 1651.CJ vii. 42b-43a. Commr. admlty. and navy, 28 July, 3 Dec. 1653, 8 Nov. 1655.A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 10.

Parlimentarian
BLAKE, Robert (1599-1657), of Bridgwater, Som.
: Som.
Likenesses

Likenesses: miniature, S. Cooper, early 1650s;NMM. oil on canvas, unknown.NMM.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BLAKE, Robert (1599-1657), of Bridgwater, Som.

Will
13 Mar. 1656, pr. 20 Aug. and 2 Sept. 1657.PROB11/267/111.
Estates
inherited manor of Puriton cum Crandon, Som. 1625.PROB11/148/224; Coventry Docquets, 311.
Oxford 1644
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