Francis Bygod

a Yorkshire Man born, spent some time among the Oxonian Muses, but whether he took a Degree, it doth not appear. Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King, and wrot,

A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices—The Epistle before which, dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed (or reprinted) at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman’s Larger work of Tithes, by the care of Jerem. Stephens, an. 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope, his Marriage with Anna Bolein, and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth, as ’tis conjectured by circumstances. The Author’s purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries, who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession, as it had been complained of long before his time, especially be Dr. Tho. (*)(*) Vide Hist, & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 220. a. & 242. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born. The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English, which I have not yet seen. At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage, an. 1536, (at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull) was thereupon apprehended, imprison’d, and at length executed at Tyburn near to London, with other Knights and Esquires, in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven, 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8.