Born circa 1716 (christened 17 March that year),[1] the son of Danby Pickering of Hatton Garden, Middlesex[2] by his wife Mary (née Horson),[1] Pickering was admitted, on 28 June 1737, a student at Gray's Inn, where he was called to the bar on 8 May 1741.
[3] Pickering re-edited the original four volumes of Modern Reports (1682–1703), with the supplements of 1711, 1713, and 1716, under the title Modern Reports, or Select Cases adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, since the Restoration of His Majesty King Charles II to the Fourth of Queen Anne, London, 1757.
He also edited Sir Henry Finch's Law, or a Discourse thereof in Four Books, London, 1759.
The dual column is employed as well for the translations from Norman French, which continue throughout the reign of Edward IV.
[5] Although he was nominally a French king, Richard III appears to have governed (while he did) in the English tongue.