The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2Harrison, James
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The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
Harrison, James
Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Biography; Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
"His Majesty is graciously pleased, _in consideration of the great
and important services that renowned man, Horatio Viscount Nelson,
hath rendered to his King and Country, and in order to perpetuate
to the latest posterity the remembrance of his glorious actions,
and to incite others to imitate his example_, to grant the dignity
of a Baron of his united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to
the said Horatio Viscount Nelson, Knight of the most Honourable
Order of the Bath, and Vice-Admiral of the Blue Squadron of his
Majesty's Fleet--Duke of Bronte in Sicily, Knight of the Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, and of the
Imperial Order of the Crescent--by the name, stile, and title, of
Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Hilborough in his county of
Norfolk: to hold, to him, and the heirs male of his body lawfully
begotten; and, in default of such issue, to his trusty and
well-beloved Edmund Nelson, Clerk, Rector of Burnham Thorpe in his
county of Norfolk, father of the said Horatio Viscount Nelson, and
the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and, in default of
such issue, to the heirs male of the body of Susannah, the wife of
Thomas Bolton, Esq. and sister of the said Horatio Viscount Nelson,
lawfully begotten and to be begotten, severally and successively,
one after another, as they shall be in seniority of age and
priority of birth; and, in default of such issue, to the heirs male
of the body of Catharine, the wife of George Matcham, Esq. another
sister of the said Horatio Viscount Nelson, lawfully begotten and
to be begotten, severally and successively, one after another, as
they shall be in seniority of age and priority of birth; with all
rights, privileges, pre-eminences, immunities, and advantages,
thereunto belonging. _And a clause is inserted, declaring it to be
his Majesty's royal will and pleasure, that the persons who shall
hereafter succeed to the said title and dignity of Baron Nelson of
the Nile, and of Hilborough aforesaid, shall take and use the
surname of Nelson only_."
In a note accompanying the above copy of this creation with remainders,
it is observed, that the words therein scored under with red, and which
are here printed in Italic characters, appear to be new, and are not
inserted in common creations.
Immediately on Lord Nelson's arrival in the Downs, from off Boulogne, he
had sent to request that Sir William and Lady Hamilton, with the present
Earl and Countess Nelson, would hasten to Deal, for the purpose of
attending on their esteemed friend Captain Parker, whose dreadful wounds
afforded but little hope of his recovery, and tendering their kind
offices to the rest of the brave sufferers.
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