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COPY OF LORD NELSON'S WILL AND CODICILS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Horatio Nelson
Edited by
Nicholas Harris Nicolas
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[Will, dated 10 May, 1803.]

This is the last Will and Testament of me, Horatio Viscount Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk, and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Duke of Bronté, in the Kingdom of Farther Sicily. First, in the event that I shall die in England, I direct my executors hereinafter named (unless His Majesty shall signify it to be his pleasure that my body shall be interred elsewhere), to cause my body to be interred in the Parish Church of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk aforesaid, near the remains of my deceased father and mother, and in as private a manner as may be. And I direct that the sum of one hundred pounds shall be divided amongst the poor of the several parishes of Burnham Thorpe, Sutton, and Norton, all in the County of Norfolk; that is to say, one-third part to the poor of each of the said parishes, the same to be distributed at the discretion of the respective Curates or officiating Ministers of those parishes, and in such manner and proportions, and to such objects as they respectively shall think fit.[…]

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The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson , pp. 661 - 680
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011
First published in: 1846

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