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Giles Wigginton

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and taken to Lancaster Castle. From there on 28 February 1587 he despatched a letter to Sir Walter Mildmay, soliciting his assistance. He was released before December 1588, for in that month he was again arrested in London and brought before the high commissioners at Lambeth on the charge of being
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for refusing to plead, Wigginton stood up in court and protested that she should not be put to death on the basis of a child's testimony and that while the Queen's law might allow such a penalty, God's law did not. Wiggington subsequently visited Clitherow in prison and tried to convert her,
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On his release and recovery he returned to Sedbergh, but without permission to preach. He did preach, at his own house and elsewhere, gathering large audiences. Whitgift then instigated Sandys to issue an attachment, and Wigginton was arrested by a pursuivant at
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On 4 April 1597 he wrote to Burghley, proposing the establishment of a seminary to train men for controversy with Catholic priests, and presenting him with a manuscript anti-Catholic treatise. While in prison he composed
169:, where he was treated harshly. He was removed to another prison, and, on failing through illness to obey a citation of the archbishop, he was sentenced to deprivation and degradation, in spite of the intercession of 107:, remarking ‘He laboureth not to build, but to pull down, and by what means he can to overthrow the state ecclesiastical’ In 1584, when in London, he was appointed to preach before the judges in the church of 138:
In the following year, on the information of Edward Middleton, Whitgift gave orders to Sandys to proceed against Wigginton, and he was in consequence cited before Chaderton and deprived of his living.
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Later in 1586, while visiting London, he was apprehended by one of Whitgift's pursuivants, brought before the archbishop at Lambeth, and, on refusing the oath again, was committed to the
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which she admitted she did not possess, and that the willingness of Catholic priests to die for their faith did not prove its truth, since Protestants had also been martyred under
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in October 1564, and in 1566 was elected a scholar. He proceeded B.A. in 1569, and was subsequently elected a Fellow, over opposition from the Master
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1564 – 1597) was an English clergyman who became a fringe religious activist towards the end of the sixteenth century.
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to Wigginton at night while he was in bed, to forbid him to preach and require him to give a bond for his appearance at
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to answer certain articles unknown to him. Wigginton refused, and Whitgift committed him to the
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Around 1592 Wigginton was restored to the vicarage of Sedbergh by the direction of
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During his imprisonment he was nearly involved in the punishment of the fanatic
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the next day. On his appearance before Whitgift he was tendered an oath
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On 3 September 1579 Wigginton was instituted to the vicarage of
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arguing that his faith gave him an assurance of salvation
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On 14 March 1586 Wigginton was present at the trial of
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Oundle
Northamptonshire
Oundle School
University of Cambridge
Sir Walter Mildmay
sizar
Trinity College
John Whitgift
Puritan
divinity
Sedbergh
Yorkshire
Calvinism
Edwin Sandys
archbishop of York
William Chaderton
bishop of Chester
St. Dunstan-in-the-West
archbishop of Canterbury
pursuivant
Lambeth
Gatehouse Prison
province of Canterbury
Margaret Clitherow
peine fort et dure
predestination
Mary I
John Mush
White Lion prison

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