In the Name of God Amen I ROBERT SPRAT Mariner on board his Majesty's Ship Terrible Capt. Roger Curtis Esq. Commadore 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 precarious 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 ffirst I recommend my Soul to God that gave it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God to order And as for and concerning all my worldy 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 anyways and owing  or belonging unto me at time of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto my beloved Wife RACHAEL SPRAT of the parish of Bradford in the County of Wilts. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my Wife RACHAEL SPRAT of the parish of Bradford in the County of Wilts. my sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments or Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore made And I do ordain and ratify the one present 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 fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight and in the eighteenth year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third over Great Britain etc.    ROBERT SPRAT  his mark signed sealed published and declared in the presence of  Edward Bowater 3rd Liet. / M Proidon Master / J.L. Walker Lieut. /     Proved 17 February 1781 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury