Research Notes:

Of Thomas Middleton, Sir William's eldest son, very little is known beyond what the pedigrees tell us, that he married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, of Gawthorpe, and that his wife bare him eleven children — six sons and five daughters. He held lands in Austby and Bergh, in the vill of Nesfield in 1519, more than thirty years before his father's death, and is mentioned only as Thomas Myddelton, Esquire, of Stubham. In 1546 he held Ilkley tithes, West of the Wharfe. ⁴

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1 May, 10 Henry VIII (1518). Thomas Middilton, son and heir apparent of William Middilton of Stokeld, knt. (militis), after reciting that William Mallever[er], James Roos, John Vavasour, William Thwatt, Nicholas Middilton, Robert Middilton and John Threpland had at his father's request, by a deed dated June 24, 5 Henry VIII (1513), handed over (tradiderunt) to his father and Isabel, his wife*, all the lands, etc., in Austby and Nesfeld, which they had had of his father's feoffment, confirmed the estate of his father and his wife Isabel in the same. ⁵

* Isabel was William Middleton's second wife, Thomas's mother, Jane Dudley, having died in 1500.