sentences:  As the decade went on he moved towards becoming a Presbyterian, by stages until he was an Anabaptist, (later during the Interregnum
  he voted against the immediate abolition of Church tithes but favoured the banning Christmas).During the disagreement between Parliament and the New Model Army in 1648 Pickering sided with the Army and kept his seat in the Rump after Pride's Purge of the Long Parliament.He was appointed one of the judges at the trial of Charles I in 1648 but only sat in two sessions and did not sign Charles's death warrant.