My Lord Bishop of London urges the duty of catechising with much fervor; I shall begin on the 17ih of Feb. next, being the first Sunday in Lent; but my lord (when I sued out a license.) did profess lent season too short for such a work, and hardly endured to have the matter contested. Our parishes have not observed perambulations for several years; I suppose it will be convenient to stir them thereto against the 5lh of May next, Rogation Siuiday. Reverend sir, 1 know your minutes are precious, your importances constant ; ergo^ it is duty and love without rhetorical ambages, to profess myself, as I ought to appear.

Your worship's humble servant and ready curate.

John Nye.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 535

Mr. Andrews (of whom my letter speaketh,) is a corristant churchman, attentive and observant at the common prayer, and carefully avoideth sly reficctions ngainst the government, but, as it seems, best satisfied with the Presbyterian discipline.a ' ,

The Rev. John Pell, D. D., died on the 12ih of Oecembtr, 1685, and was buried in the rector's vault of St. Giles' Church in the Fields, London.

John Pell, the only son of the Rev. John Pell, D. D., was born on the 3d February, 1643. By the will of his uncle, Tliomas Pell, he became the next proprietor of the manor of Pelham.

From the following document it is apparent that John Pell took possession of the manor the year succeeding his uncle's decease, for "at a meeting of the governor and assistants in Flartford, December 9th, 1670, upon the desire of Mr. John Pell, the governor and assistants thought good thereby to certity whom it may concern, that they are fully satisfied by several letters and testimonials that the governor hath received from persons of honor in England, that the bearer of them, Mr.