There is more information to add to the earlier biography.The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 227. In June 1409 Bickley and Robert Peck*, the burgess with whom he would sit in the Parliament of 1415, entered into a bond in statute staple at Westminster for 40 marks with Thomas Smith, parson of Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire, who took action against them on the strength of that security in November 1413. The reason for the bond, or another for the same amount that they gave the cleric in mid 1422, is unknown. Before 1422 was out, Smith had also taken action against them over the second bond. Both securities referred to Bickley as a ‘yeoman’ but to Peck as a ‘gentleman’. C131/225/8; C241/216/3.
