Brief Lives, Vol. 2

Note AN — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 2)

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Aubrey quotes, as applicable to Pell:—

'Ingenium ingens Inculto latet hoc sub corpore.

Horat. Sat. I. iii. 34.'

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].'

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