In 1658 he returned into England and so little before the death of Oliver Cromwell that he never sawe him since he was Protector.
Memorandum—when he tooke his leave from Zurich, June 23, 1658, he made a Latin speech, which I have seen.
Memorandum that in his negociation he did no disservice to King Charles IId, nor to the church, as may appeare by his letters which are in the Secretarie's Office.
[525]Richard Cromwell, Protector, did not fully pay him for his business in Piedmont, wherby he was in some want; and so when King Charles II was restored[526], Dr. Sanderson, bishop of Lincoln, perswaded him to take Holy Orders. He was not adroit for preaching.
[527]When King Charles II had been at home ten months, Mr. John Pell first tooke Orders. He was made deacon upon the last of March, 1661, by bishop Sanderson of Lincoln, by whom he was made priest in June following.
Gilbert Sheldon, bishop of Lundon, [procured[528] for] him the parsonage of Fobbing[AO] in Essex, 1661, and two yeares after (1663) [gave him] the parsonage of Laindon cum annexa capella de Bartelsdon in eodem comitatu, which benefices are in the infamous and unhealthy (aguesh[529]) hundreds of Essex.
Mr. Edward Waller on the death of the countesse of Warwick:—
Curst be alreadie those Essexian plaines
Where ... Death and Horrour reignes.—
etc.
[At Fobbing, seven curates dyed within the first ten yeares]; in sixteen yeares, six of those that had been his curates at Laindon are dead; besides those that went away from both places; and the death of his wife [servants, and grandchildren].