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POCKLINGTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"POCKLINGTON, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire, 152 cm. 183 mm. from London, bel. heretofore to the Piercies, afterwards Earls of Northumberland; one of whom obtained a charter in the R. of Hen. I. for its Mt. on S. and its Fair at All-Saints-day and its Eve, and July 20; and another in the R. of Edw. II. obtained a charter for two more Fairs, At length it came to Henry Hotspur."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]