Show THE TICHBORNE CURSE the punishment M lideh followed the discontinuance of the ali dolo dole to the alio poor it seems that in the time of henry IT II a sir roger tichborne Tich borno married an heiress named mabel de L Lym mer erstone stone slie she proved to he be a lady bountiful always soliciting her knight to give to the poor these entreaties he constantly refused until when bhe became bedridden he tauntingly offered her for the poor as much ground as she could crawl around she actually succeeded in covering fit teen hence bence the name of the field before lady mabel died she desired that the rental of these fifteen acres bo be giver given annually to the poor every lady day march 25 in the shape of loaves she said if any tichborne Tich borno deprives the poor of this dole the family shall be punished by the fulfillment of my curse may the house then fall the name change and misfortune come the fulfillment shall be shadowed foreshadowed fore by a generation of seven s sons 0 ns and then one of seven daughters toward the end of the last century the baronet of that day was petitioned by the neighboring gentry to stop the dole as a bad precedent he complied in 1802 this same baronet the father of seven sons pulled down the mansion which lie he said was inconvenient and decayed the tower was so solid that gunpowder had to be used to make pitfall it fall he was succeeded by a son who had seven daughters the title next successively passed to his two bro brothers brotheim theis tile the last of these father of the drowned sir roger and of sir alfred sire of the present baronet did change the family name by malting making it the double one of doughty tichborne for which the royal license was obtained a then came the misfortune the mysterious death of sir roger the almost ruinous lawsuit the birth ot of the present baronet after his hia fathers death and the humiliation of the boys grandmother lady tichborne stooping to fraud and perjury in supporting the orton claimant curiously enough this dole proved a turning point in comic convicting ting the claimant he swore that it was distributed in silver whereas the jurors decided it if he had bad been the heir lie he must have known that it was in loaves the dole has however been resumed substituting sacks of flour for baked bread new york herald |