Venn: Matric. sizar from Queens', Easter, 1602. Of Leicestershire. B.A. 1605-6; M.A. 1609. R. of Cole- Orton, Leics., 1611. Chaplain to the Earl of Essex. V. of Packington, 1613-44. Author, poems and sermons. Died c. 1659. Father of the next and of William (1631). (D.N.B.; Nichols, III. 940.)
See Walker Revised, pp. 241-2; CSPD 1660-61, p. 52; 'Thomas Pestell 1598-1667' in ODNB.