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A Note On William Wigges, Priest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

C.J. Sisson
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William Wigges, Confessor of the Faith, is recorded in Catholic history as a priest, ordained at Douai in 1582, imprisoned in the Clink in 1584, transferred to Newgate in 1585, and brought to trial on July 5 in that year. He was acquitted of High Treason, but was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and incarcerated in Wisbech Castle, dying in prison not earlier than in 1595. From early days he was confused with William Way, as in John Wilson’s English Martyrology of 1608, and was included in lists of martyrs from 1590 onwards, William Way having been executed at Kingston in 1588.

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British Catholic History , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1959 , pp. 40 - 41
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1959

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References

1. Catholic Record Society, Vol. 1. V, 112 ff.; Lives of the English Martyrs, Burton and Pollen, 2nd Series, I. 153 ff. and 439 ff.; Our Martyrs, C. T. Society, 4th ed. 1935, p.16.

2. P.R.O. C 24/303/6.