Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-05-31
D0LED OUT BY TICHBoRNEs.
Bene factiOns of the Family Thai
Have Extended Through Six
Hundred Years.

I The ancient manor of Tichborne
lies near Winchester. Two hundred
years prior to the Norman conquest
this manor2Was known as Itchen-
borne, because within its borders rose
the River Itchen. Shortly after the
first Plantagenet assembled the throne
Sir Roger:.de Itchenborne, knight,
married Mabel, the only daughter and
hciress of Sir Ralph De Immersion, of
the Isle of Wight. After many years
of godly living and kindness to the
poor, says Self-Culture, Lady Mabel,
realizing that she was near to death,
besought Sir Roger to bestow upon
her such means as would enable her
to leave Il loaf of bread to all appli-
cants on Annunciation day forever.
Sir Roger was unwilling to grant the
request except under condition ex-
tremely hard for his wife, who had
been bedridden for many years. He
said, in effect: Tomorrow will be
Christmas. All the land from yonder
oak tree that you can traverse north
and east while the morning Yule log
burns 1 will enclose with parallel
lines corresponding on the south and
west, and it shall be your own"
The following morning Lady Mabel
was borne to the corner>of the park
and at the lighting of the Yulc log
commenced her painful task. Before
the cry came from the hall that the
log was in ashes she had won tract
Of Is acres of rich land, known to-
day as ''Thc Crawls." in memory of
her painful task. The land was sur
veyed and decided to Lady Mabel, but
her heroic deed had FASTENED her end.
A few hours later the parish priest
was summoned to prepare her for
death. While awaiting his coming she
called her household around her and
prophesied that the house of De Itch
enborne would prosper as long as the
dole to the poor should be continued.
but that if it were ever neglected the
family name would be lost for the
want Of male issue, and that in such
an event the baronet of the day would
be the father of seven sons, the eldest
Of whom would have seven daughters,
but no sons. She then accepted the
ministrations of her confessor and
died
Through more than six centuries of
sunshine and shadow the house of
Tichborne continued at Annunciation
to distribute the dole. During the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 600
leaves We're baked on the day preced-
ing Annunciation. This number grew
in time to LOCO, / 500 and 1000 loaves.
In the eighteenth century more than
5000 loaves and from EOS to 6 90 in
money were distributed annually.
Though for more than 600 years
this charity fed the poor for one day
in the year, kept its foundress in
pious memory and furnished to other
wealthy families an example worthy
of emulation, its distribution became
at length an intolerable burden.
Tichborne park became, in mid-Lent.
he rendezvous Of tralnps, beggars,
costermongers, pickpockets. sneak
thieves and acrobats. who camped in
eStemporized shelters all over the
fields and gardens of the manor.
With the distribution in 1909 the
dole Yves discontinued. BY a strange
coincidence, in 1921 Lady Mabel's
prophecy was partially fulfilled, for
in that Year the head Of the family
died. leaving seven sons. The eldest
succeeded to the baronetcy and died
in ls45, leaving seven daughters. He
was succeeded by his eldest brother,
who, on his marriage in 1926 with Miss
Doughty, a Lincolnshire heiress, had
& taken the name Doughty Itch borne.
impressed by the singular fulfllment
of Lady Mabels prophecy, besought
his elder brother to restore the dole.
This was done, with certain restric-
tions combining it to the poor Of the
parish of Itch borne. In this manner
1t continues to be distributed to the
present day.
Cancer I'm the Sexes. s@
Cancer among males is much more
prevalent than among females, the NOR
tality rate being for ten years 60 per
..nr< - ~ a nc. q ,, = 90 ~, ~ "a.