ordinaires du Roi en son Hotel, by a patent, still extant dated July 6, 1579, and signed by Henri IV.
Samuel, great grandson of Jean Horace Pechel, found an asylum in Ireland, after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and obtained a pension from King William, together with a commission in the regiment commanded by Marshal Schomberg[1].
The subject of this memoir is the eldest surviving son of the late Major-General Sir Thomas Brooke-Pechell, Bart., M.P. for Downton, in Wiltshire, and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to her late Majesty, Queen Charlotte (great grandson of Mons. Samuel Pechel); by Charlotte, second daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John Clavering, K.B., Commander-in-chief in India[2]; mid grand-daughter of John, first Earl of Delawarr[3].
Mr. Samuel John Pechell was born Sept. 1, 1785. He
- ↑ A detail of the sufferings endured by Mons. Peclhel, previous to his reaching Ireland, will be found in l’Histoire de la Revocation de l’Edict de Nantes
- ↑ Sir Clavering, K.B., was sent out to India during the government of Mr. Warren Hastings. He died at Calcutta.
- ↑ In 1609, Thomas West, Lord Delawarr, was constituted Captain-General of all the colonies then planted or about to be established in Virginia, which province, at that period, contained a much larger tract of country than at present. He went thither the same year, and soon after laid the foundation of Charlestown. His lordship afterwards published “A short relation touching his unexpected return home,” which is still to be found in the British Museum.
John West, second Earl Delawarr, a Lieutenant-General in the army, and sometime Master of the Horse to Queen Charlotte, when about to quit the royal household, wrote a poetical farewell to the maids of honor, of which the following is the first stanza:
“Ye maids, who Britain’s court bedeck,
“Miss Wrottesley, Tyron, Beauclerc, Keck,
“Miss Meadows and Boscawen|
“A dismal tale I have to tell,
“This is to bid you all farewell,–
“Farewell, for I am going.”N.B. The river Delaware, in North America, derives its appellation from the above Thomas, Lord Delawarr, who fell a martyr to his noble undertakings.
