William Pygot
William Pygot was a sixteenth-century English Protestant martyr. His story was recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs. For denying transubstantiation, he was burned to death at Braintree, Essex, on 28 March 1555.[1]
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- ^ p.257, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 2000, Ambassador Publications
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