Background
The son of Henry Pickworth, a farmer of New Sleaford, Lincolnshire, he was born there about 1673, and was in business in Sleaford as a tanner.
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Career
Bugg arrived 11 August 1701, and on 25 August the conference was held in the sessions house, before justices and clergymen. Pickworth was thought to have performed disappointingly, and Bugg was given a certificate, dated 11 March 1702, that he had made good his charges. Two Quaker books were publicly burned in the market-place.
Both disputants issued their own version of the conference, and Pickworth then attacked Bugg in pamphlets.
He went repeatedly to the yearly Quaker meeting held in London in May and June, to present addresses, protests, and "testimonies", but was generally refused an audience. At last, on 9 June 1714, he was disowned by the quarterly meeting of Lincoln for supporting the Camisards.
Pickworth vainly petitioned the Lords and Commons for another public conference. He died at Lynn some time after that date.
His widow remained a Quaker minister until her death at Lynn, 1 May 1752.
