54 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



On the 23d of June, 165S, he took leave of the Swiss Cantons, in a 

 Latin oration, and arrived in England on the 13th of August following, 

 just as Cromwell was dying. In his diary Mr. Tell thus records the 

 death of the Protector and the proclamation of his son : 



September 3d, 1658, Olivarus Protector obiit alb, aula. 



September 4ih, 1658, Ricardus Westmonasterii et Londiue proclamation. 



The following notes relate to his attendance on the Protector's 

 funeral : 



Gardiner's Lane, near King Steeet. 



" I do hereby request that the proportion of cloth allowed unto me by the right 

 honorable council as mourning fur his late highness, the lord protector, may be 

 delivered unto my neighbor, Mr. Samuel Harthb, the younger. Written with 

 my own hand, Sept. 26th, 1658. 



JOHN PELL. 



"Whitehall, at TnE Green Cloth, Sept. 27. 165S. 



Mr. Cleeke, Comptroller: — "'I desire you to direct the delivery of nine yards 

 of black cloth of twenty-four shillings per yard, and six yards of fifteen shillings 

 per yard, for John Pell, Esq. BARRINGTON. 



John Pell, Esq. : — You are desired to attend the funeral of the most serene 

 and most renowned Oliver, late Lord Protector, from Somerset House, on Tues- 

 day, the 23d of November, instant, at eight of the clock in the morning at the 

 furthest, and bring with you this ticket ; and that by Friday next, you send to 

 the Herald's office, near Paul's, the names of your servants that are to attend in 

 mourning, without which they are not to be admitted ; and also to take notice 

 that no coaches are to pass, on that day, in the streets between Somerset House 

 and Westminister."* 1 



While abroad Mr. Pell had performed considerable services for King 

 Charles II. b and the Church of England for which he was favored by the 

 Royalists party. Being ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln on 

 the 31st of March, 1661, and a priest in the June following; the same 

 year he obtained from the crown the rectory of Fobbing in Essex, to 

 which the Bishop of London added the rectory of Lasingdon or Lain- 

 den in 1663. 



a Vaughans Protectorate of Cromwell, vol, il., 341, 342. 



6 In his diary he records the King's birth day thus : " 1657, May 29, Carslus, twenty-seven 

 years old." 



c The living is a discharged rectory, in the deanery of Lewes, and is valued in the King's 

 books at .£9 13«. 9%d. It is in the patronage of the owner. The church is dedicated to St. 

 MlctaaeL 



