PICKERING, (Yorkshire, N.R.) 13 m. from Scarborough, 170 cm. 226 mm. from London, is a pretty large T. bel. to the Duchy
of Lancaster, on a hill among the wild mountains of Blakemore, having the forest of Pickering on the N. and Pickering-
Common on the S. It is said to have been built 270 years before Christ by Peridurus, a K. of the Britons, who was buried
here, It had once a castle (the ruins whereof are still to be seen) to whose jurisdiction many of the neighbouring
villages were subject; and the adjacent territory, commonly called Pickering-Lath, or the liberty or forest of Pickering,
was given by Hen. III. to his son, Edmund E. of Lancaster. A court is kept here for all actions under 40 l. arising within
the honor of Pickering. Here is a plentiful Mt. for corn, &c. on M. and a Fair for 3 days at Holy-Cross-Tide.