Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1568-1569.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1568-1569.
Born about 1551, Pigg was from Essex. He was admitted pensioner of Saint John"s College, Cambridge, on 6 October 1565, and scholar on 8 November
1566.
Pigg was rector of All Saints", Colchester, 1569-1571 of Saint Peter"s, Colchester, 1569-1579, and Abberton in Essex, 1571-1578. In 1578 he was also beneficed in the diocese of Norwich, and in February 1583 was temporarily appointed to the cure of Rougham, Suffolk. In July 1583 Pigg was imprisoned at Bury Saint Edmunds.
The charge was of "dispraising" the Book of Common Prayer, especially by putting the question in the baptismal service, "Dost thou believe?" to the parents, in place of the child.
In a petition for release to the justices of Bury he declared his "detestation of the proceedings of Browne, Harrison, and their favourers". Before the next assizes he conformed.
And after some further minor troubles was discharged. In 1589 he seems to have preached in Dorchester, Dorset, and in 1591 was in London.