Dep. sheriff, Westmld. 17 Sept. or 30 Oct. 1365–1 or 18 Oct. 1367, 25 Oct-1368–1 or 15 Oct. 1369, 10 or 17 Oct. 1371–7 Sept. or 9 Oct. 1376; sheriff, Yorks. 15 Nov. 1389 – 7 Nov. 1390, 7 Nov. 1393 – 11 Nov. 1394, 3 Nov. 1397–30 Sept. 1399.
Commr. of oyer and terminer, Cumb. Feb. 1367 (disorder at Wythop), June 1367 (assault on the sheriff), Yorks. Aug., Sept. 1397 (attacks on property of St. Mary’s abbey, York); array, Westmld. Dec. 1368, Yorks. (W. Riding) July 1377, Westmld. Feb. 1379, Yorks. (W. Riding) Mar. 1380; to make arrests, Westmld. May 1375, June 1398; confiscate the estates of Ingram de Coucy, earl of Bedford, Westmld., Yorks. Aug. 1377; of inquiry, Yorks. Dec. 1380 (disputed mayoral elections, York), Northumb., Cumb., Westmld. Feb. 1383 (illegal fishing), Yorks. Apr. 1390 (claim to John Lokton’s estates), Feb. 1391 (goods of John Lokton), Feb. 1392 (an abduction); to suppress the insurgents of 1381, Westmld. Mar., Dec. 1382; hold a special assize at Heversham July 1398.
C.j. Ire. by July 1369-c.1371.
Assessor of taxes, Westmld. Mar., June 1371, Aug. 1379, Dec. 1380.
J.p. Westmld. 28 Jan. 1373 – Dec. 1375, 20 Dec. 1382 – July 1387, 24 Dec. 1390 – Nov. 1392, Yorks. (W. Riding) 6 Nov. 1376 – May 1380, 12 Nov. 1397 – d.
Speaker Oct. 1378, Feb. 1383.
Farmer of portage over the river Lune, Westmld. 14 June 1379–82.
Escheator, Yorks. 5 Nov. 1379 – 6 Feb. 1381, 6 Nov. 1382 – 1 Nov. 1383, 12 Dec. 1390–28 Dec. 1391.
Unless otherwise stated all references incorporated in this biography are to be found in J.S. Roskell, Parl. and Pol. in Late Med. Eng. iii. 1-25.
PICKERING, Sir James (-d. c.1398)