The eighth article brought against Edward Pocock, when he was cited in 1655 to appear before the commissioners for ejecting ignorant and scandalous ministers, was that he had refused to allow Pendarves to preach in his pulpit at Childrey.
Luckily the letter was intercepted by Thomasina Pendarves who replied to Kiffen telling him that his suggestion was ill advised and moreover he should in future write to her as she did not trust her husband to act correctly.
His body was carried by water to Abingdon in a chest; it arrived there on Saturday, 27 September and three days later was conveyed to a piece of ground at the west end of the town that had been purchased as a burial-place for his congregation.
Crowds came from neighbouring villages, and spent the preceding and succeeding days in religious exercises; but on 2 October Major-general Bridges sent fifty horse soldiers from Wallingford to dissolve the meetings.
Pendarves was a Fifth Monarchy man, and in 1656 issued a volume called ‘Arrowes against Babylon,’ in which he attacked the churches of Rome and England, attempted to reform the apparel of the saints, and addressed certain queries to the Quakers, accusing them of concealing their beliefs, and of condemning Christian pastors, yet preaching themselves.
In the same year Pendarves joined four other dissenting ministers in preparing an address to their congregations, entitled ‘Sighs for Sion,’ and with Christopher Feake he composed prefaces for an anonymous pamphlet on ‘The Prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying.’ A sermon which Pendarves had preached in Petty France, London, on 10 June 1656, was published after his death by John Cox.
Her parents Bathsave (born Philpott) and Thomas Newcomen were from an inflential family with interests in Ireland and the mining of tin.