West, daughter of William West, 1st Baron De La Warr, and widow successively of Thomas Wenman (or Waynman), Esquire of Thame Park, Oxfordshire and Twyford (died 1577), and of James Cressy of Beaconsfield (died 1581). Tasburgh's friend and kinsman Sir John Pakington is said to have been one of the few people present at the wedding. The Wenmans were Catholic sympathizers: Thomas Wenman's mother was the eldest daughter of Lord Williams of Thame (c. 1500-1559). It is told that Cressy was a retainer to Lord De La Warr and sought to marry Jane, but her father forbade the marriage: Cressy went abroad and was converted to Catholicism, and when he returned he married her as a widow and converted her. Jane brought offspring from both of her previous marriages, but for Tasburgh his second marriage was again without issue. Through this union Tasburgh acquired other manors, including the Wenman manor of Twyford, and that of Wilton in Beaconsfield, which James Cressy had leased under promise to pay the Wenman debts to the Crown, and which now became the Tasburgh marital home. In 1590 Thomas and Jane laid claim upon Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey for the manor of Eaton Hastings in Berkshire, as having been devised to Jane as jointure by Sir Richard Wenman (died 1573), her former father-in-law: proceedings ensued in the Star Chamber until 1594. Danvers had agreed to purchase the manor for a considerable sum, most of which had been laid out at the time of James Cressy's death in 1581-82, but the manor had not been conveyed to Danvers. The Wenman debts were now coming home to roost for Tasburgh: however, Danvers died in 1594. Later career He sat in parliament for Chipping Wycombe in 1593. A Recusant Roll of 1592-93 shows that part of Thomas's estates had been seized and were being farmed by the Crown. In 1595 he was questioned over threats he had made to his neighbour at Beaconsfield. He replied that his neighbour had slandered him and his wife by saying that they were maintainers of popery, and had been married by a priest. The neighbour apologised but said that he could not rule his wife's tongue, and that she was agitated against Tasburgh and another magistrate because they had called her husband to account for his running of a victualling house. Tasburgh showed that he had been married at Twyford by