Felton was at length again taken prisoner by the French near Bordeaux on 1 November 1377. In c. 1378 Dame Joan de Felton, his wife, petitioned the king that a French prisoner in England, the Count of Saint Pol (Waleran III, Count of Ligny), should not be ransomed until her husband had been set at liberty. In April 1380 a procuration had been signed by the Comte de Foix to set him at liberty. In August the king granted to Felton for the payment of his ransom thirty thousand francs, from the ransom of two French prisoners. During the same year Felton received letters of protection in England to enable him to return to France for matters connected with the payment of his ransom. At his death his lands and barony of Chaumont in Gascony, over which his governance had been lacking, were granted by King Richard II to Sir Perducas d'Albret. Death and chantry Felton was made a Knight of the Garter in January 1381, and his plate is still to be seen in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in the tenth stall, on the sovereign's side. He died 2 April 1381. Besides the manor of Litcham, Norfolk, Felton owned the manor called Felton's at Barrow, Suffolk, and other property in the neighbourhood. In 1384 John le Strange and his wife Eleanor, daughter and heir in the blood of Sir Richard de Walkefare, released to Joan de Felton certain manors from the inheritance of Sir Richard de Walkefare. In the same year Joan de Felton enfeoffed the nominees of John de Snoryng, Prior of Walsingham, with the Walkfare manors of Great Ryburgh and Little Ryburgh, and the advowson of Great Ryburgh: they were to enfeoff the Prior, to find four chaplains to sing perpetually for the souls of Sir Thomas and Dame Joan Felton in a chapel to be made over the tomb of Sir Thomas at Walsingham. Joan made warranty against the claims of John and Eleanor Strange and their heirs, upon the manor of Great Ryburgh. After her death the feoffees were to grant an annual rent of £20 each to her daughters Dame Sibill de Morley, nun (and later to be abbess) in the Abbey of Barking, and Dame Mary de Felton, minoress in the Abbey of St Mary without Aldgate, and one of 100 shillings to John Sturmy of Incheton. Her tenant, Sir Stephen de