5 2 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



April 5, Dismissed by my Lord Protector. I supped with my wife and bade 

 her adieu. 

 April 6. We came to gravesend.« 



The first article in his correspondence (as ambassador) opens with a 

 letter to Mr. Secretary Thuiioe, dated Utrecht, April 20th, O. S., 1654. 



In a letter from Morland, to the Right Hon. John Pell, dated White- 

 hall, January, 15th, 1656-7, he makes the following allusion to the family 

 of the latter : " To-morrow, God willing, I shall not fail to go and 

 present your five children with five gold angels according to your order, 

 as I have this evening sent her ladyship a note, though it were after I 

 received the enclosed from her to you, &c, &c." 



August 26th, 1654, Mr. Pell thus writes to his wife concerning his 

 children : " Let Mary learn to cut and carve with her right hand. Take 

 heed that John rt lose not his Roman with learning secretary, or else get 

 a rambling hand writing, neither of them will," &c. 



"To Mrs. Pell, at her house behind six trees, in Gardiner's lane, near 

 King street, Westminster. In a letter of August 28th, O- S. 1655, to his 

 wife, he writes, ''you have reason to thank the councillor that persuaded 

 you to write to me for pearls and jewels. You tell me that you know I 

 have rich presents ; you might do well to tell me, who gave them me, 

 when, and where, and what they are, for I know none of all these. No- 

 body wears pearls or jewels here. If they were to be sold, they cannot 

 be sent safely to you in a letter through the hands of many posts; and I 

 have no other way to send to you from hence. It would a great deal 

 better become you, to advise your daughters to cast off all thoughts of 

 such bravery, as would not be fit for them, though their father were 

 worth twenty times as much as he is, all his just claims being reckoned 

 with that which he hath now in his power. This letter will come to White- 

 hall, about the very beginning of the Parliament, so that Mr. Secretary 

 and those about him, may be so full of business, that they may forget to 

 send you this letter in due time, and then it may miscarry, which is the 

 cause that this time I tell you no more of my mind concerning Ma and 

 the rest, of whom I cannot think without much sadness. 



God Almighty bless them and direct you." 



Zurich, May 26th. Mr. Pell to Mrs. Pell. "Since my last of April 

 20th, &c, &c, L have received two of yours. In them you ask advice 

 concerning my son. If he be not fit to get long lessons, by heart, he 

 will never be fit for that school ; but you must take heed that you dis- 

 please not Mr. B. by taking him away. If our friends can help you to 

 find out a good school for him, you may send him thither in the school 



a Dr. Vanphan's Protectorate of Cromwell vol. ii, 485. The journey from Westminister to 

 Zurich, says Pell, was forty-three days; "our way was worked, aud at least seven hundred 

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