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,
John Pell.
Whitehall^ at the Green Cloth, Sept. 27, 1658. Mr. Clerk Comptroller : I desire you to direct the delivering 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 Tuesday the 23d of November, instant, at eight of the clock in the morning at the furthest, and to bring with you this ticket, and that by Friday night 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 arc 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 Westminster.^
Mr. Pell was admitted to holy orders by the i3ishop of Lincoln in 1661, and obtained from the crown the rectory of Fobbing in