40 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Willingsley; who married first, Alice, daughter of Henry Flower, of 

 Langer in the County of Nottingham, by whom he had two sons, Ed- 

 ward Pell of Walter Willingsley, (the father of Thomas Pell and Thomas 

 Pell, "the younger,") and Thomas Pell. "Thomas Pell of Walter Wil- 

 lingsley, married, secondly, Alice, daughter of William Thorold, Lord 

 of Marston and Blankney in the County of Lincoln and High Sheriff of 

 that county in 155S-1559, who died 24th of November, 1569." Their 

 son was Sir Richard Pell of Dymblesbye" in the County of Lincoln, 

 Knight, one of the executors of his cousin, Sir Anthony Thorold, son 

 and heir of William, ancestor of the Thorolds of Marston, now repre- 

 sented by Sir John Charles Thorold, Baronet. Sir Anthony Thorold 

 died 1594. Sir Richard Pell Knight, by his first wife, Margaret, daugh- 

 ter of Edward Tirwhitt — Knight and Baronet of Stanfield, Essex, had two 

 daughters — Anne, who died without issue and was buried at St. Giles, 

 Criplegate, London ; and Ursula, who married, first, Edward Ellis of 

 Chestertown in Cambridge, second, Lewes Cockaine of Cockaine Hatley 

 in Bedford. By his second wife, Catharine, daughter of Anthony Meeres 

 of Kirton in Holland, Sir Richard Pell had three sons and two daughters. 

 The eldest son was Sir Anthony Pell, of Dymblesby, Knight, who by 

 his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Willoughby of Carlton 

 in the County of Nottingham, had four sons, viz., Richard, William, 

 Anthony and John, who were all probably living when the visitation of 

 Lincolnshire was made in 1592 by Richard Lee, Richmond Herald, 

 deputy of Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King at arms. 5 



A branch of this Lincolnshire family had removed into the County of 

 Norfolk, of which was John Pell, gentleman, of Derringham, in that 

 county, Lord of the manor of Shouldham Priory/ and Brookhall, who 

 married Margaret Cletheron, and died April 4th, 1556, leaving an only 

 son, John Pell, Esq., steward or master of the king's cup, and Lord 

 Mayor of Lynn Regis, who was born May 5th, 1527 ; married Margaret, 

 daughter and heiress of William Overend, Esq., and died May 5th, 

 1607. Upon an altar-stone at the east end of the south aisle of St. 



a Sir Richard Pell of Dymblesbye had a grant of arms, Oct. 19th, 1594, from Richard Lee, 

 Clarenceux King at arms, of the following: " Ermine on a canton azure a pellioan, or— Crest 

 a pellican, or standing on a garland vert, full of roses, or. This coal and vest exactly corres- 

 pond with those borne by the Pells of Noifolk, Sussex and Westchester which prove them to 

 have been of one and the same family. 



b Sari, MsS. I860 fcil. 137,» 138 and 138," visitations of Lincolnshire, 1564, 1592. British 

 Museum. Borke'sJExtlnot and Dormant Baronetcies. Collectanea Typographic et Genealo- 

 gica, vol. iv., 373. 



c At the dissolution, Shouldam Priory was granted, May 1544, 36th, nen. VIJI., to John 

 Dethick, Esq., who in the 38th. 1646, had license to alien it to John Pell and his heirs. The 

 manor of Brookhall, an old hall conveyed by Sir Giles CapeLoon and heir of Sir William 

 Capel, Lord Mayor of London, in the thirty-second year of Henry VII., (1641.) to John 

 Pell grant by fine, in which family it continued, as in Shouldham Priory Manor, till left to Mr. 

 Walpolej the Earl of Oxford being its present Lord. The aforesaid John Pell, gentleman, 

 by his will, dated Sept. 16, 1554, requires to be buried in the church of Derrmgham. 



