General Notes

Sir Thomas and Margery, his wife, had a daughter, Margaret, who was buried in the parish of Pembury, in county Kent. They also had three sons: Walter, the oldest, died in a battle in Normandy, at the age of 22 in 1327, without children. Sir John, succeeded to Bay Hall on the death of Walter. Nothing is known of Richard, the youngest, except that he was alive in 1365. King Edward I, who ruled from 1272 to 1307, made Sir Thomas a knight of Bedgebury and the Governor of Winchelsea. In the time of King Edward II, who ruled from 1307 to 1327, he and his brother John was a partisan of Lord Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in his bitter fight at the Battle of Boroughbridge and the fatal fight at Pontefract against King Edward 11 in 1321. As a consequence, Sir Thomas was executed in October of that year at Winchelsea, a short time before the king executed his brother Walter at Leeds Castle. His brother John was imprisoned in York Castle in 1322 and released from Castle Berkhamstead by King Edward III, immediately upon his accession to the throne in 1327; and returned his estate.
Source:   Harl., Chap 77, f. 20