What a laugh this fella was
A cheeky joke about Lancashire made by Lord Nelson has been unearthed in a set of books due to go under the hammer at auction.
The other three books contain notes written with his left hand - and the writing is "significantly" different. "Other books he had with him on HMS Victory have come up before, the last time being in 2007, but he hadn't written in those." Nelson made three annotations to the entry on his love interest Lady Hamilton in his copy, which is where he made the joke about her being the "Lancashire witch".
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