Edward Pickering

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• - Warren Keith Wright on Thu 3 Apr 2003, 12:23am. Flag this

  Among Montagu’s numerous relatives were a family of Northamptonshire landowners named Pickering. Sir Gilbert (1613-38), faithful to Cromwell, married Elizabeth Sandwich; one of their dozen offspring, Betty, was the wife of Pepys’s significant rival John Creed.
  Gilbert’s younger brother Edward (Ned; 1618-98) first worked for the 2nd Lord Mountagu of Boughton, then served a short while in the Queen’s Household. From that vantage he distributed a good deal of court gossip (about Sandwich’s extramarital affairs and other didoes) before he was shamed and fired. Dorothy Weld (“Doll. Wilde” in the Diary), first his mistress, then his wife (d. 1707), must have held some affection for him; but dislike of him spread far beyond Pepys, and he was regarded as a greedy holier-than-thou type.
  

• - Paul Brewster on Tue 20 May 2003, 02:38am. Flag this

  Sir Gilbert’s actual dates were 1613-1668 (not 1638 as above)

• - Pedro on Tue 4 Oct 2005, 11:09am

  Pickering, Edward.

  From L&M—

  “Sir Gilbert’s younger brother Edward (Ned) was attached to the service of the 2nd Lord Montagu of Boughton and like him obtained a place in the Queen’s Household, from which he was soon dismissed in disgrace. He appears to have been disliked by almost everyone, not only Pepys. Roger North wrote him down as a sanctimonious ‘money-hunter’ and has a story of his altering a will to his own benefit.”

• - Terry F on Sat 18 Feb 2006, 11:07pm. Flag this

  Uncle of John Pickering http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/676.php

References in the diary

1660

Apr: 2, 8, 9
May: 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23
Jun: 7
Sep: 22

1661

Apr: 2
Jun: 5
Aug: 11, 17, 31
Sep: 2
Nov: 20

1662

Jan: 10
Apr: 13, 27
Oct: 3

1663

Jan: 28
Feb: 17
Jul: 22, 31
Aug: 10
Sep: 7, 9
Nov: 9, 22

1664

Jan: 20
Feb: 1
Jun: 20

1665

Jan: 16

1666

Sep: 25
Dec: 28

1667

Apr: 26

1668

Dec: 4, 11

1669

Jan: 29
Feb: 15
Mar: 18