Alice Peckett

"Lady Peckett’s Yard runs south-east from Pavement and is connected to Fossgate by a lane at right angles. The present name, from Alice Peckett, wife of John Peckett, Lord Mayor of York in 1701, who died in 1759, was used by 1782 and originally referred to the open space into which the lanes led. Their earlier names may have been Bacus gail (the north west to south east lane) and Trichour gail (that leading to Fossgate), first recorded in 1312 and 1301 respectively and meaning Bake-house and Cheat’s Lane. One of these may also have been called Osmond Lane in 1410." http://www.yorkconservationtrust.org/pavement-ladypecketts.html

See A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours, Volume 2, page 174. and http://stirnet.com/genie/data/british/pp/pawson1.php

John Peckett was the Lord Mayor of York through 1701–1702. He also served as the city's Sheriff in 1695. He was married to Alice Pawson, whose well-connected family succeeded John several times. From Wikipedia, John Peckett

"Son of Richard Peckitt (born in 1667), and grandson of John Peckitt, sheriff in 1673—4,whose son,John Peckitt, lord mayor in 1702, left a widow, Alice (daughter of Mr. Henry Pawson), who survived him upwards of half a century. ‘ Lady Peckitt's Yard,’ in Pavement, takes its name from her. Margaret Peckitt, sister of the ‘Lord Mayor’s Porter,’ married, at the Minster, 22nd July, 1718, Edward, son of Edward Croft, by his first wife, Sarah, daughter of Richard Justice, innholder, and widow of Mr. Bogill. Her eldest brother, Wm. Justice, attorney, was father of Henry Justice, Esq., Barrister-at-law, lord of the manor of Rufforth, who was transported, for stealing books from the library of Lincoln’s Inn, in 1736. His wife, Elizabeth (who was living in 1752), was the authoress of ‘Amelia, or the Distressed Wife."

• Source - The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume 15, page 175.