4? HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



of w'illiam Drury, Esq., of Fincham, and died without issue in 1535. 

 Jerfrey Pell, his brother, married Catherine, daughter of Edward Rand, 

 of East Bendham, and left issue John Pell, Esq., fourth lord of the 

 manor of Shouldharu, whose great-grandson, Valentine Pell, gave 

 Shouldhain and Brookhall to Robert Walpole, ancestor of the Earls of 

 Oxford ; another son of John and Margaret was Valentine Pell, an at- 

 torney at Lynn, who died in 1603; another son was Thomas Pell; 

 while a fifth son is said to have been the Rev. John Pell, incumbent of 

 Southwyck, in the county of Sussex. Others, however, assert that 

 although the latter was descended of the ancient Lincolnshire family, 

 yet his branch had removed some time into Sussex. a The Rev. John 

 Pell, of Southwyck, 6 was born about 1553, and married Mary Holland, 

 of Halden, County of Kent. This accomplished lady was descended 

 of the royal family ; her branch being allied to the Hollands, Earls of 

 Kent, who flourished in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II., 

 Kings of England. Sir Thomas de Holland, second son of Robert 

 de Holland, Knight of the Garter and a Baron of the realm, (who led 

 the van of Prince Edward's army at the famous Castle of Cressy.) mar- 

 ried Joane Plantagenet, celebrated for her beauty under the name of 

 " The Fair Maid of Kent" only daughter of Edmund Plantagenet, sur- 

 named "of Woodstock," Earl of Kent, second son of King Edward III. 

 This distinguished woman inherited (upon the decease of her brother 

 John, the third Earl of Kent,) that dignity, with the Barony of Wood- 

 stock, honors of her father, and the Barony of Wake, a dignity of her 

 mother's ; from which latter peerage, she styled herself " Lady of 

 Wake." c The Rev. John Pell died at Southwycke in 16 16, leaving two 

 sons, Thomas Pell, 'gentleman of the bed-chamber" to King Charles 

 I., and first Lord and proprietor of the manor of Peiham ; and the Rev. 

 John Pell, D.D., rector of Fobbing, in Essex. Thomas Pell, the eldest 

 son, appears to have been born at Southwyck, Sussex, about 1608, al- 

 though by some he is styled of Norfolk ; the exact period of his arrival 

 in America is uncertain ; d that he was one of the first settlers of New 

 England, however, there remains no doubt ; for, at a very early period, 



a Biorrvupliia Brittanica. Ir is a little BinguUr that John Poll, .second Lord of the manor of 

 Peiham, should be bo frequently styled, in the records, "Sir John pell," which Be ma rather 

 to connect hnu with the knighted family of in mbl «by, in Li] 



b This living is a dischurt:- d rectory in tb ,.-. s, and is rained in the King's 



hooks at £'.>, 130, 9#d. Ji is in 'hi' patronage of the crown. The church i.s dedicated to St. 

 Michael. The Reg! in 1663. 



c Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peeragi -. Hasted'B Bist .of Kent, vol. ii. 284. The arms 

 of Ilolland, of Holland, temp. King John. a/, a lion ramp, guard betn. bix fleurs-de-lis ar.: 

 these were als 1 th • arm- of Rol .ad, summoned to Parliament, S. Edward II., and 



his descendants, the ha! is of Kent. 



d Two of this name appear as emigrants to New England inl685.— "6th April :635. These 

 pties hereinnnder mencioned are to be transported toNew Englande, im o 

 ersXieo Trarice M., bound thither they have brought cjiti:icatj from th Justic . i f Peace 



