For Thays, according to Leland’s version. He gives us “Thays et Tony”: and again, further on, “Tay.” This was a baronial name. “The family of Teutonicus, or Tyes, is frequently mentioned both in Normandy and England, and may possibly have descended from Baldric Teutonicus, ancestor of the Courcys and Nevills.” - The Norman People. We find them early established in Yorkshire. “At a very small distance from the field of battle of Towton stands the antique and diminutive chapel of Leod, or Lede, which seems to have been domestic to the adjoining manor house. This was one of the seats of the ancient family of Tyas, styling themselves in Latin Teutonicus, five of whose tombs still remain in the chapel, which, as I recollect, is little more than eighteen feet long within. The inscriptions, in Longobardic characters, are partly visible, and four of the five bear the arms of Tyas, a fesse with three mallets in chief.

“This family De Tyas appear to have been magnificent persons. Sir Baldwin Teutonicus is styled nobilis miles, and a lady, probably his wife, nobilis fæmina. The following is a trait in their character of the same kind. A0 .... (the year is omitted) Ed. I. In Rot. Cur. de Wakefield.

“Franco Tyas miles tulit actionem versus Germanum Mercer, qui arrestavit equum Wilmi Lepton armigeri sui ad dedecus & damnum prædit Franci, quia fuit sine armigero. Et prædictus Franco recuperavit centum solidos.”

“The gravamen in this action was very singular. A poor mercer had arrested the horse of the plaintiff’s esquire, in consequence of which the latter was unable to attend his knight to his great disgrace and loss. The plaintiff for this affront recovered one hundred shillings, equal, at least, to as many pounds at present.

“This Sir Franco, whom I trace pretty far into the reign of Henry III., must, I think, have been son of John Tyas, son of Sir Baldwin, and father of Henry, who seems to have been father of another Franco, the last of his name, who, when near the close of his life, made disposition of his estates. It seems evident that after his death they passed to the descendants of an heir female, several generations higher in the line.” - Whitaker's Loidis and Elmete.

Dodsworth gives a more detailed and rather different pedigree commencing with Henricus Teutonicus, to whom, some time between 1195 and 1211, Roger de Laci granted the manor of Slaithwaithe, which passed to his brother Baldwin Teutonicus vel Ties, Lord of Lede, and in right of his wife Margery, also of Woodsome and Farnley, named from him Farnley-Tyas. He was the father of Sir Franco (the hero of Whitaker’s story), who had a son variously named Henry and Richard, living 1279-1315, and married to a co-heiress of Neville of Mirfield. They had five sons: 1, Baldwin, s. p.; 2, Robert, a priest; 3, Franco II.; 4, Richard; and 5, John, Lord of Slaithwaite, whose heiress Margaret married Sir John Billingay. According to the same authority, Franco had an heir named Baldwin, and Richard two daughters only; whereas Hunter, the historian of South Yorkshire, asserts that Franco was a bachelor, and that from Richard “there seems to have descended a race of Tyas of Farnley who had property there, hut not the manor."

The name was by no means confined to Yorkshire. There was a Waleran Teutonicus, who, in the time of Henry III., had the custody of the Isle of Wight during the minority of Earl Baldwin. Roger de Teie occurs in Oxfordshire 1194-98 (Rot. Curiae Regis). Sir Walter de Teys Morant, in his History of Essex, asserts that Sir Walter took his name from Mark’s-Tey in that county, of which he first became possessed in the reign of Edward I. But this does not quite agree with the pedigree he gives, for he makes out Robert Tey, 8th in descent from Sir Walter, to be living in 1426! This family ended in 1540 with four co-heiresses. They bore Argent three herons’ heads gorged with a crown Or, within a bordure of the second, with the motto “Tais en temps.” This relates to one of the name, “who, living in the wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, had a significant device, Not to be hanged for Talking. in 1316 held Bromham, &c., in Bedfordshire, and Nunnington, &c., in Yorkshire. He was summoned to parliament at Northampton in 1307, and again the following year for the King’s coronation. He received numerous writs of military summons, and in 1315 was “stationed in the Marches for defence thereof against the Scots.” - Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs. Sir Henry Tyes, who held lands in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Wiltshire, was a baron by writ in 1313. He served Edward II. in his Scottish wars; but, in 1322, taking part with the Earl of Lancaster, he was in arms against the King, attacked and burnt Bridgenorth, and “was one of the traitors that assisted in taking the town of Gloucester.” He was made prisoner at the battle of Boroughbridge, and hanged for treason. Theodoric Teutonicus held of the King in Somersetshire, and Henry Teutonicus was a tenant of the new feoffment in Cornwall. - Testa de Nevill.