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Definition of Pells
1. pell [n] - See also: pell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pells
Literary usage of Pells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1907)
"The four Tellers were Lord Camden, Lord Bathurst, Mr. Charles Yorke, and Mr.
Spencer Perceval ; the Clerk of the pells was Mr. Henry Addington ; the Auditor ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Elections by Arthur Male (1820)
"WHEREAS the offices of Auditors and Tellers of his majesty's Exchequer in England
and Ireland respectively, and of clerks of the pells in England and ..."
3. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia by Georgia General Assembly (1904)
"... thirty Seven Pounds Seventeen Shillings the Fees at the Office of the Clerk
of the pells; Sixty two Pounds Seventeen Shillings the Fees at the Office of ..."
4. Reminiscences of a Falconer by Charles Hawkins Fisher (1901)
"He was a son of old Jan pells (or Peels), a native of Valkenswaard in North
Brabant, where for generations past, and to the present day, the capture of ..."
5. A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time. A by George Maclean Rose (1886)
"His parents were William pells and Susan, whose maiden name was Dent, both belonging
... Mrs. pells died in 1875. Thomas pells, ihe subject of this sketch, ..."
6. The Modern Philosopher; Or Terrible Tractoration: In Four Cantos, Most by Thomas Green Fessenden (1806)
"The clerkship of the pells, until Mr. Addington discovered otherwise, was always
considered as justly belonging to some meritorious but worn-out and ..."
7. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"He renews his connexion with Sir Robert Walpole, and is appointed a Lord of the
Treasury, and Clerk of the pells in Ireland.—Deserts Walpole on his decline. ..."
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