Thomas Pigot (1657-1686).
[688]Mr. Thomas Pigot was borne at Brindle, in Lancashire, about eleven a clock at night (sed quaere his brother Henry + de hoc)—from Mr. Pond.
[689]I have got Mr. Pigot's birth, as to the month and howre from his kinswoman who was at his mother's labour and recieved him in her lapp. If you are acquainted with his brother, desire him to give you the anno Domini.
[690]Mr. Thomas Pigot, M.A. Coll. Wadh., my worthy friend, obiit August 14, A.D. 1686, of a feaver, about one a clock in the afternoon.
He was fellow of Wadham College and chaplain in ordinary to the earle of Ossory, at whose house in St. James' Square he deceased. He was buried in St. James's church by St. James's fields, Sunday the 15th, in the middle aisle between the pulpit and the railes of the communion-table of the north side of this aisle, in the grave of Mr. Rigby, the first rector[691] here, upon whose coffin he lies. His head lies under 14.
His brother haz a MS. of musick written by him, a little 4to.
Quaere for his decyphering the inscription on Sir Thomas More's family-picture at Bessills-Leigh. Memorandum—this decyphering gives great light to the antiquitie of the family which els would be lost utterly.
He haz some pieces of opus tessellatum found at or near Badmanton (the duke of Beauford's) not long before his death.