In a letter from Mr. Moorland, to the Right Hon. John Pell, dated, Whitehall, 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^ue 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," (fee. &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^ lose not his Roman with learning Secretary, or else get a rambling hand writing, neither of them well, &c."

» The year of his brother's purchase.

b John here alluded to, was the second proprietor of the manor. In Mr. Pell's diary, Feb. 3, 1G54, he remarks, «' my son eleven years old."

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To Mrs. Pell, at her house behind six trees, in Gardiner'* 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 you know I iiave rich j>reseiit3 ; you might do well to tell me, who gave them me, when, and where, and what they are, for 1 know none of all these. Nobody 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 dau^^hters 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.