sentences:  Gilbert Pickering was an MP representing Northamptonshire and as such served in the Short Parliament of 1640 and in the Long Parliament of 1640 to 1653.He abandoned the royalist cause when Charles raised his standard at Nottingham in 1642.In 1642 Pickering joined the Northamptonshire committee and was most active as "a sequester and a committee man" although he also raised a regiment for parliament.