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Gilbert Pickering 

Sir Gilbert Pickering was a member of the English Council of State during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.[1]

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.[2]

Pickering was also the cousin and an early patron of the poet, John Dryden.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Robert Aris Willmott (1839). Lives of Sacred Poets. 
  2. ^ "House of Lords Record Office The Death Warrant of King Charles I" (2 January 2007).
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