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SlR JOHN PECHE, the most splendid amongst the gentlemen who hgured in
the court of Henry VIII., appears already to have advanced his fortunes in the
reign of Henry VII., during Perkin Warbeck's unsuccessful rebellion. In the
twelfth of that king's reign we Rnd him amongst the foremost engaged in opposing
the Cornish men in Rent, which led to their subsequent defeat on Blackheath. At
ry VIII., Stow says, " the king ordained to wait on his person
e speares, every of them to have an archer, a demilance, and a
eare to have three great horses to be attendant on his person;
le earle of Essex was lieutenant, and Sir John Pechie captaine,
atinued not long, the charges were so great; for there were
hey and their horses were apparelled and trapped in cloth of
dsmith's worke."
., 1513, we still And Sir John Peche employed in military
panying the king as vice governor of the horsemen at the