He was admitted pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, on 6 Oct. 1565, and scholar on 8 Nov. 1566.
In 1578 he was also beneficed in the diocese of Norwich, and in February 1583 was temporarily appointed to the cure of Rougham, Suffolk.
The charge was of "dispraising" the Book of Common Prayer, especially by putting the question in the baptismal service, "Dost thou believe?"
In a petition for release to the justices of Bury he declared his "detestation of the proceedings of Browne, Harrison, and their favourers".
[1] In 1587, at a meeting held at Cambridge, under the presidency of Thomas Cartwright to promote church discipline, Pigg and William Dyke were nominated superintendents of the Puritan ministers for Hertfordshire.