The Tichborne case: witness summons 1p., listing in manuscript: Sarah Gill, Thomas Devonshire Penrose Hawkes, Eliza Hobbs, and George Holmes, to appear before the court during the second trial (for perjury): ‘at Westminster, on Wednesday the twenty third day of April next… against Thomas Castro, otherwise called Arthur Orton, otherwise called Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, baronet, for certain Misdemeanors… Witness, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn’, addressed in pencil verso ‘Eliza Hobbs, 1 Orange Court’: split at centre fold, stained, tape residue, 105 x 340mm, 1873; with a copy of Douglas Woodruff’s book on the trial: ‘The Tichborne Claimant’, 1957 (2) ***The Tichborne case was a Victorian legal cause célèbre. It concerned "the Claimant", a man who claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, a wealthy English heir lost in a shipwreck in 1854.