Tichborne (Sir Richard, 2nd Baronet, Royalist commander in the English Civil War and English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1597, 1578-1657) Indenture dated 1 May 1626. Between Sir Richard Titchborne of Winchester Castle, Robert Aston of Farnham and Amye Aston in consideration of £1,500 Francis Clarke, signed by Sir Richard Tichborn, Robert Aston and by the mark of Ayme Aston, manuscript in English on vellum, folds, some fraying to extremities, c.740 x 520mm., 1 May 1626.
⁂ Signed by an ancestor of Roger Tichborne, the figure at the centre of the notorious Tichborne case. Sir Richard Tichborne became joint keeper of Winchester Castle with his father in 1604. He was a ranger of West Beare forest by 1610. In 1614 he was elected MP for Hampshire. He was elected MP for Winchester in 1621 and was re-elected in 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628.
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