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Document signed twice ("Emma Hamilton"), being a grant by "Dame Emma Hamilton of Merton in the County of Surry Widow" to Francis Giffard of Upavon of an annuity of £300 in return for the capital sum of £3000, secured against the property bequeathed to her by "the Right Honorable Horatio Viscount Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk and Duke of Bronte in the Kingdom of farther Sicily deceased" by his Last Will and Testament dated 10 May 1803, namely "his Capital Messuage at Merton in the County of Surry and the Outhouses Offices Gardens and pleasure Grounds belonging thereto and...his Grounds Farms Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the several Parishes of Merton Wimbledon and Mitcham or any of them as together with and including the Scite of the said Messuages Outhouses Offices Gardens pleasure Grounds Shrubbery Canal ['the Nile'] and Mote should not exceed seventy acres as should be selected by the said Dame Emma Hamilton within six months"; signed on the last sheet of vellum by Emma Hamilton, Francis Giffard (in pencil) and Edward Howard (as Giffard's trustee); also signed by her on the verso of the first sheet (acknowledging receipt of the £3000 paid to her in ten instalments in "Bank of England Notes payable to Bearer" in denominations ranging between £10 and £1000), also signed twice as witnesses by Sarah Connor and Francis Oliver (see note below), on 5 sheets of vellum, some usual dust-staining where exposed and minor spotting but overall in fine condition, 24 July 1807