Gilbert Pickering

Gilbert Pickering

Sir Gilbert Pickering was a member of the English Council of State during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.cite book|title=Lives of Sacred Poets|author=Robert Aris Willmott|date=1839]

He was one of the commissioners of the High Court of Justice during the trial of King Charles I but did not sign the death warrant. [ cite web|url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ldparlac/ldrpt66.htm|title=House of Lords Record Office The Death Warrant of King Charles I|date=2 January 2007]

Pickering was also the cousin and an early patron of the poet, John Dryden.

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