sentences:  The original of the pardon delivered by Charles II on vellum in Latin is in the Pitts Theology Library of Emory University, MS no 109.Pickering's family came to prominence at the time when Sir Gilbert's great-great-grandfather Gilbert Pickering purchased manors in the village of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire.Pickering's father, John Pickering, married Susannah, daughter of Sir Erasmus Dryden.