Described as chaplain of All Souls, Oxford, in 1667.
Foster: Pestell, Thomas, s. Thomas, of Packington, co. Leicester, minister. All Souls' Coll., matric. 12 July 161, aged 18; BA 1663, MA 1667; his father sequestered from the rectory of Packington 1646, by the Westminster Assembly. See Add. MS 15670, p. 108.