In the Name of God Amen I Tertius Hest being in bodily Health and of Sound and disposing mind and Memory and considering the Perils and Dangers of the Seas and other Uncertainties of this Transitory Life Do for Avoiding Controversies after my Decease make Publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say First I recommend my Soul to God that Gave it and my Body to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God to Order And as for and concerning all my Worldly Estate I Give bequeath and Dispose thereof as followeth that is to say all my Wages Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods Chattels and Estate whatsoever as Shall be in any ways due owing or belonging to me at the time of my Decease I do Give Devise and bequeath the same unto the Reverend Mr Richard Hest of Swaffham in Norfolk And I do hereby nominate and ...... the said Mr Richard Hest and Mr James ..... of London Clerk Joint Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore made And I do Ordain and ratify these Presents to Stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my hand and Seal the Twenty Ninth Day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Sixty one And in the ffirst Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third over Great Britain etc. Tertius Hest Signed Sealed Published and Declared in the Presence of Saml Thompson Thos Campbell

Proved at London 16 April 1766 by the Oath of the Reverend Richard Hest Clerk the Uncle of the Deceased and Surviving Executor

PCC Prob11/917