TICHBORNES’ ANCIENT RIGHT
The Tichhornes, whose annual dole ceremony look place recently on their Hampshire estates, have a strange prerogative. The head of the family may ride into Westminster Abbey on a horse on the occasion of a king’s coronation. James II granted this unusual privilege. The dole ceremony consists of the distribution of bags of flour to all tenants working on the Tichborne estates. Neglect of the ceremony is supposed to entail endless bad luck. In fact, one year when the ceremony was overlooked, a series of disasters befell the household.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21952, 13 May 1933, Page 21
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92TICHBORNES’ ANCIENT RIGHT Otago Daily Times, Issue 21952, 13 May 1933, Page 21
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