The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Tolet : Osbert de Toleta occurs in the Norman Exchequer Rolls about 1180: Henry Tullet and Gilian his wife in Kent, and Robert Tulleyt in Wiltshire, c, 1272 (Rot. Hundred.). John Tolet is mentioned about 1380 in the county of Durham.—Bishop Hatfield's Survey. Bernard Tulet held of Sir John de Baliol at Bywell in Northumberland 1268. (Inq. p. m. 53 Hen. III.) A family of the name exists in Staffordshire, derived from George Toilet, a Commissioner of the Navy in the times of William III. and Queen Anne, who purchased Betley of the Egertons in 1720. Charles Toilet of Betley was High Sheriff of the county 23 Geo. III.: and in 1814 assumed the name of Wickstead on inheriting the property of his great uncle, Thomas Wickstead of Nantwich.