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Webster 1913 Edition
Pell
1.
A skin or hide; a pelt.
2.
A roll of parchment; a parchment record.
Clerk of the pells
, formerly, an officer of the exchequer who entered accounts on certain parchment rolls, called pell rolls.
[Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Pell
PELL
,Noun.
Clerk of the pells, in England, an officer of the exchequer, who enters every teller's bill on the parchment rolls, the roll or receipts and the roll of disbursements.