Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Description
Lord Sandwich’s niece, daughter of Sir Gilbert Pickering and Lady Elizabeth Mountagu. She married John Creed in October 1668.
Annotations
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Lord Sandwich’s niece.
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”..of a dsign I have come in my head this morning at church of making a match between Mrs. Betty Pickering and Mr.Hill..”
Thomas Hill married in the following year, and on July 14th,1666, Pepys refers to the “young wife, and a blithe young woman she is..”
Henry.B.Wheatley. Vol.I. Febr, 1893.
”.. Betty Pickering, Sandwich’s niece, eventually married John Creed..”
L+M Vol.VI.1974.