Research Notes:

Son and heir*, appeared in 1205 as a tenant of the Earl of Chester and was in control of Ashwell in 1209.†

He was a Commissioner to survey the forest in Derbyshire in 1219, a collector of the fifteenth in counties Nottingham and Derby in 1225, a justice of novel disseisin and jail delivery in the same counties in 1227, 1228 and 1229, and a Commissioner of array in co. Derby in 1230.‡

About 1218 he presented to the living of Ashwell church, he made a gift of lands to Wombridge Priory, Salop, 1215-24, and was in litigation with the Abbot of Burton in 1224 and 1226.** He appears in 1221, as lord of Lee Gomery, Salop, which he probably inherited from his mother Pernel. ¹

* Thomas granted to Darley Abbey the land called Hascow with the adjacent meadow "pro salute anime mee et pro anima patris mei Simonis de Tuschet" (Cart. of Darley Abbey, p. 502).

† Pipe Roll, 7 John, p. 64; 11 John, p. 107. In 1209-28 he witnessed a charter of the Earl of Chester.

‡ Patent Rolls, 1216-25, pp. 213, 560; 1225-32, pp. 160, 223, 285, 312; Close Rolls, 1227-31, p. 400

** Rot. Hugonis de Welles, Canterbury and York Soc., vol. i, p. 79; Bracton's Note Book, nos. 914, 974; H.C.S., vol. v, pt. 1, pp. 51, 60.

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30 Sep 1221

Order to take into the king's hand without delay all of the king's demesne lands …, namely those demesnes of which King John, the king's father, was seised at the beginning of the war between him and his barons. … the sheriff of Rutland. Thomas Tuschet. Geoffrey de Armenters.

Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 5 Hen. III, 349

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13 Nov 1225, Westminster

The abbot of Burton gives the king half a mark for having a pone against Thomas Tuschet and Nicholas of Willington, concerning customs and services that the abbot exacts from them of their free tenement in Willington.

Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 10 Hen. III, 5