Glyn on 19 Jun 2003  •  Link

The wife of the notorious Parliamentarian Sir Gilbert Pickering, who was one of the judges at the trial of Charles I: and also the sister of Lord Montagu. She would have been in her late 30s or early 40s at the time of the Diary.

S. Spoelstra on 30 Oct 2003  •  Link

The "pardon" that Gilbert Pickering received in the end (through Pepys's and then Sandwiches mediation and some money given to him by Lady Pickering ?) seems to be in an american collection now; see:

http://www.pitts.emory.edu/Archiv…

Bill on 16 May 2013  •  Link

For a family tree of Elizabeth Montague: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Pers…