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bap. 13 Apr. 1619, 11th but 8th surv. s. of Humphrey Blake (bur. 19 Nov. 1625) of St Mary, Bridgwater, Som., and Sarah (bur. 24 Dec. 1638), da. and coh. of John Williams of Pawlett, wid. of one Smithers; bro. of Robert Blake*. m. Alice, da. of ?; ?bur. 4 Sept. 1693 4 Sept. 1693.PROB11/418, f. 11; Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. n.s. xi), 85; C.L. Stott, ‘Humphrey Blake...and his descendants in New Eng. and S. Carolina’, New Eng. Historical and Genealogical Reg. clxiii. 203-11.
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Military: lt. of ft. (parlian.) ?by 1643 – ?; capt. by Oct. 1644–?;SP28/128, pt. 6, f. 4v; L. Spring, The Regts. of the Eastern Assoc. (Bristol, 1998), i. 27–8; T. Crawshaw, ‘Military Finance and the Earl of Essex’s Regular Army: 1642–4’ (York Univ. Toronto PhD thesis, 2013), 495. maj. by May 1650-bef. Jan. 1653.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 141; 1652–3, p. 132. Gov. Gt. Yarmouth by May 1650-Aug. 1651.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 141; 1651, pp. 342, 582. Capt. militia horse, Northants. by July 1655 – aft.June 1656; maj. by July – Sept. 1659; col. Sept.-aft. Dec. 1659.SP25/77, pp. 878, 900; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 140; 1659–60, pp. 16, 283; CJ vii. 753a, 772b.

Local: commr. militia, Gt. Yarmouth Feb. 1651;CSP Dom. 1651, p. 40. Northants. and Rutland 14 Mar. 1655;SP25/76A, f. 16. Northants. 2 July 1659.A. and O. J.p. liberty of Peterborough 14 May 1651–10 Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 215; C181/6, pp. 36, 368. Northants. 26 Feb. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 359. Commr. oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, liberty of Peterborough by June 1654–29 Oct. 1660;C181/6, pp. 36, 368. ejecting scandalous ministers, Northants. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. Recvr.-gen. Notts., Derbys. and Lincs. Aug. 1655-c.1660.SP46/97, f. 173; SP46/99, f. 83; Add. 32471, f. 9; Lincs. RO, HILL 23/741. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Northants. by Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 235. assessment, Northants. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 21 July 1659.C181/6, p. 382.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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Commons 1640-1660
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BLAKE, Alexander (1619-93), of Peterborough, Northants.

Will
16 Oct. 1684, pr. 8 Jan. 1694.PROB11/418, f. 11.
Estates
1649, purchased 1,000 acres of fenland in the Gt. Level for £75.Cambs. RO, R59/31/9/2, unfol. (entry for 19 Nov. 1649).
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