348 



Notes on Nathaniel Hichman. 



and is addressed to "The Right Honourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 

 Lord High Chancellor of England." No date is attached, but Lord Clarendon 

 died in 1674. It is probable that several attempts were made to secure some 

 provision for the widow and her four or five children, and were spread over 

 a number of years, being addressed to different persons, including the highest 

 in the realm, but all in vain. In Hoare's History of Wilts, Vol. I., p. 279, 

 a brief reference is made to Thomas Hickman, who is described as " this 

 venerable clergyman," and to the petition as found in Walker's monumental 

 work. 



Notes on the Pedigree of HICKMAN, of Upton Lovell 

 AND West Knoyle, co. Wilts: — 



PlLKINGT0N=: 



of Rivington, co. Lanes. 

 See Wood's Athence Oxonienses 

 a,nAIIist. ofPilkington Family 

 by John Pilkington. 



John May, or Mey.— Amy 



Bishop of Carlisle, 

 1577—97. 

 See Goo'pev's Athe- 

 nce Cantabrigi- 

 enses and Strype's 

 Annals of the 

 Reformation. 



dau. of Wm. 

 Vowel, of Creak 

 Abbey, co. Norfolk. 

 See Visitation of 

 Norfolk, Harl. Soc. 

 Pub. 32. 



RiCHAKD Pilkington. Born circa 1568. Doubtless=:ANNii, fourth 



a relative of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham. 

 Educated at Rivington Free Grammar School (the 

 foundation of Bp. P.) along with the bishop's two 

 nephews, Robert and James. Entered Emmanuel 

 Coll., Camb., 1585. M.A. 1593. B.D. Queen's Coll., 

 Oxon, 1600. D.D., 1607. Rector of Hambleden, 

 CO. Bucks, 1595 — 1631. Archdeacon of Leicester, 

 1625—31. Died 1631. 

 See Will, P.C.C, " St. John," fol. 112. Also Diet, of 

 National Biog. 



Thomas Hickman. B.A. from Peterhouse,=ELizAEETH, third dau. of 



dau. of .John 

 May. 



Camb., 1607—8. Incorp. and M.A. Oxon, 

 1611. Rector of Upton Lovell, 1619—47. 

 Died circa 1661. 



Richard Pilkington. 



I 



Silton. 



