James Pickering

Sir James Pickering (died ca. 1398) was Speaker of the House of Commons of England in 1378 (which met in Gloucester) and again from 1382 to 1383. The protestation which, as Speaker, he made for freedom of speech, and declaring the loyalty of the Commons, was the first recorded in the rolls.[1]

He was descended from the knightly Pickering family of Killington, then in Westmorland, and was married to Elizabeth Greystoke. He owned land at Killington in Westmorland and Selby in Yorkshire and was knighted by 1361.

He was knight of the shire for Westmorland in 1362, 1365, 1377–1379 and 1382 and Cumberland in 1368. On 20 December 1368 he was commissioner of array in Westmorland, to choose twenty archers to serve under Sir William Windsor in Ireland, in his position of Chief justice of Ireland, in order, it has been said, to implement 'some highly dubious financial practices.'[2] He served as MP for Yorkshire in 1383, 1384, 1388 and 1390, Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1389, 1393 and 1397 and MP for Yorkshire for the last time in September 1397.[3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Rolls of Parliament, iii, 34 b
  2. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/haryngton-sir-nicholas-1344-1404
  3. ↑ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
Political offices
Preceded by
Sir Peter de la Mare		 Speaker of the House of Commons
1378		 Succeeded by
Sir John Guildesborough
Preceded by
Sir Richard Waldegrave		 Speaker of the House of Commons
1382–1383		 Succeeded by
John Bussy


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