Tichborne and his hundreds of false witnesses were not Indians.
Then the Tichborne name would be no more, and the house itself would come to ruin.
But by the end of the 18th century, a circus-like atmosphere pervaded the event,
causing chaos and annoying the Tichborne's snooty neighbors.
Less than four years later, a section of Tichborne house caved in, and the rest of the home had to be demolished.
The story began in 1150, when Lady Mabella,
the wife of the miserly and cruel Sir Roger Tichborne, asked her husband to fulfill her one dying wish.
Before the flour is distributed, the huge box is blessed by sprinkling it with holy water and
a blessing is made for the soul of Lady Mabella Tichborne, their kindly medieval benefactor.
One of Henry's grandsons survived to take on the baronetcy, and the dole was quickly re-established,
with the stipulation that only families residing in Tichborne, Cheriton and Lane End are eligible for the Tichborne Dole.
But, fully aware of Sir Roger's parsimony, Mabella added a chilling curse-
should you or any other Tichborne heir not honor the dole, a generation of seven
sons would be followed by one with seven daughters.
As she lay clinging to life after her exhausting work-out,
Lady Tichborne charged her husband
and all the Tichborne heirs with giving the bounty she would just earned to the poor on Lady Day, March 25 in perpetuity.