In the dialogue between the merchant and the schoolemaster, the merchant thanks him and sayes 'It is now street time, wherfore I must begonne.' In those times, before the Royal Exchange was built by Sir Thomas Gresham, the merchants did meet in the street as now a dayes at the Exchange. The place was what we now call the old Change; but I believe the street was then broader than it is now.
In those dayes[515] they did alwaies upon the top of the first clean leafe in the inventorie booke write thus:—
'In the name of God, Amen.
1566
December the xxxi daye.'
John Pell (1610/1-1685).
<When Aubrey had finished the first sketch of this life he submitted it for revision to Dr. Pell, who made several corrections. To these Aubrey draws attention by a note:—'This is Dr. Pell's owne hand-writing:' it is a neat print-like hand. These corrections in the text here are enclosed in square brackets.>
[516]John Pell[AN], S.T.Dr., was the son of John, who was the son of John.
John Pell, D.D., was the son of John Pell, ...[517] of Southwyck in Sussex, in which parish he was borne, at ..., on St. David's day (1st of March) 1610[518], horâ ... (his youngest uncle guessed about noon).
His father was <He> went to schoole at the free-schoole at Stenning, a burrough towne in Sussex, at the first founding of the schoole; an excellent schoolmaster, John Jeffreys. At 13 yeares and a quarter old he went as good a scholar to Cambridge, to Trinity Colledge, as most Masters of Arts in the University (he understood Latin, Greek, and Hebrew), so that he played not much (one[519] must imagine) with his schoolfellowes, for, when they had play-dayes, or after schoole-time, he spent his time in the library aforesaid.