# Oliver Pigg

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{{Short description|English Puritan clergyman}}
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'''Oliver Pigg''' (also '''Pig''', '''Pygg''' and '''Pygge''') ([fl](/source/Floruit). 1580) was an English [Puritan](/source/Puritan) clergyman.

==Life==
Born about 1551, Pigg was from [Essex](/source/Essex). He was admitted pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, on 6 Oct. 1565, and scholar on 8 Nov. 1566. He graduated B.A. in 1568–9.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Pigg, Oliver|volume=45}}</ref><ref>{{acad|PG565O|Pigg, Oliver}}</ref>

Pigg was rector of [All Saints', Colchester](/source/All_Saints'%2C_Colchester), 1569–71  of [St. Peter's, Colchester](/source/St._Peter's%2C_Colchester), 1569–79, and [Abberton](/source/Abberton%2C_Essex) in Essex, 1571–8. In 1578 he was also beneficed in the [diocese of Norwich](/source/diocese_of_Norwich), and in February 1583 was temporarily appointed to the cure of [Rougham, Suffolk](/source/Rougham%2C_Suffolk).<ref name="DNB"/>

In July 1583 Pigg was imprisoned at [Bury St. Edmunds](/source/Bury_St._Edmunds). The charge was of "dispraising" the ''[Book of Common Prayer](/source/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](/source/Robert_Browne_(Brownist)), [Harrison](/source/Robert_Harrison_(Brownist)), and their favourers". Before the next assizes he conformed; and after some further minor troubles was discharged.<ref name="DNB"/>

In 1587, at a meeting held at Cambridge, under the presidency of [Thomas Cartwright](/source/Thomas_Cartwright_(Puritan)) to promote church discipline, Pigg and [William Dyke](/source/William_Dyke_(Puritan)) were nominated superintendents of the Puritan ministers for [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire). In 1589 he preached in [Dorchester, Dorset](/source/Dorchester%2C_Dorset), and in 1591 was in London.<ref name="DNB"/>

==Works==
Pigg wrote:<ref name="DNB"/>
*A sermon on the 101st psalm
*''A comfortable Treatise upon the latter part of the fourth chapter of the first Epistle of St. Peter, from the twelfth verse to the ende'', London, 1582
*''Meditations concerning Prayer to Almighty God for the Safety of England when the Spaniards were come into the Narrow Seas, 1588. As also other Meditations for delivering England from the Cruelty of the Spaniards'', London, 1588

==Notes==
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