1680, August last, he was arrested and layd in prison.
[AN] Aubrey quotes, as applicable to Pell:--
'Ingenium ingens Inculto latet hoc sub corpore.
He gives a derivation of the name 'Pell, i.e. a poole--Sussex.' He gives also the coat: 'Ermine, on a canton ... a pellicane (but not feeding her young ones) ... [Pell].'
[AO] Fobbing was a Crown living--net annual value, in 1893, £534: Laindon-cum-Basildon was in the gift of the see of London--net annual value, in 1893, £491. The figures suggest that Pell had a good appetite for preferment, to ask for more.
[574]William Penn natus Oct. 14, 1644, horâ 7 mane, Londini.
[575]William Penn[AP], the eldest son of Sir William Penn, knight, [admirall[576] both of the English navy before the restauration of the king, and commanded as captain-generall under the D. Y.[577] in 1665 against the Dutch fleet[578]], was borne in London, at Tower hill, the 14[579] day of October 1644. 'Twas upon a Monday he thinkes; but 'twas about 7 a clock in the morning.
(His father was a very good man, but no Quaker; was very much against his sonne.)
Went to schoole in London, a private schole on that hill, and his father kept a tutor in the house: but first he went to school at Chigwell in Essex.
<He was> mighty lively, but with innocence; and[580] extremely tender under rebuke; and very early delighted in retirement; much given to reading and meditating[581] of the scriptures, and at 14 had marked over the Bible. Oftentimes at 13 and 14 in his meditations ravisht with joy, and dissolved into teares.
The first sense he had of God was when he was 11 yeares old at Chigwell, being retired in a chamber alone. He was so suddenly surprized with an inward comfort and (as he thought) an externall glory in the roome that he has many times sayd that from thence he had the seale of divinity and immortality, that there was a God and that the soule of man was capable of enjoying his divine communications.--His schoolmaster was not of his perswasion.
To Christ's Church in Oxon anno 1660, anno aetatis 16; stayed there about two yeares.
Anno 1662, went into France; stayd there two yeares.
Returnd and was entred of Lincoln's Inne.
About the plague, growing entirely solitary, was again diverted. Was employed by his father in a journey into Ireland to the duke of Ormond's court: the diversions of which not being able to keepe downe the stronger motions of his soule to a more religious and retired life, upon the hearing of one Th<omas> Lowe, a tradesman, of Oxon, at Cork, 1667, was so thoroughly convinced of the simplicity and selfe-deniall of the way of the people called Quakers that from thence he heartily espoused that judgment[582] and beliefe.