Sir: -- The state of affairs being much altered in those parts, so that your longer abode there seemeth not so necessary, and that your return hither may be more serviceable to us, I have thought fit hereby to recall you ; therefore you will do well, having taken your leave their, in the best manner, to repair homewards, that we may receive from you the account of your whole negotiation, and you from us the encouragement which you have deserved.'^

Sir, I rest your loving friend,

Oliver P.

By his highness's command, Jo Thurloe.

» Mr. Pell's da«gliter was mar. Nov. 27, 1656.

b The tedious negotiations at Baden, ended in a peace, which left the Swiss Cantons in the same relation to each other and Europe as before.

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Mr. Pell arrived in England only a short time prior to the death of his patron. Cromwell died on the 3il of iSeptemljcr, 1658, just three weeks after Pell's arrival in London, on the 13ih of August. In his duiry, Mr. Pell thus records the event.

September 3. " Olivarius Protector, obiit Alb. aulee.

September 4. Ricardus Westmona^ierii ct Londiiii proclamatur.

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

Gardiner^s Lane near Kinsc Street. I do hereby request that the proportion of cloth allowed unto me by the right honorable council as mourning for his late iiighness, the lord protector, may be delivered unto my neighbor, Mr. Samuel Hartiib the younger.

Written with mine own hand, Sept. 25th, 1658,