[1] The son of Robert Higgons, he was born at Chilton, near Brill, Buckinghamshire, and was educated partly in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire.
On the promotion of Thomas Ravis, Dean of Christ Church, as Bishop of Gloucester (17 March 1605), Higgons became his domestic chaplain, continuing with him till Ravis' translation to London (2 June 1607), when he became lecturer at St Dunstan Fleet Street, and was popular as preacher.
He went to France and spent two years at Douai and the College of St. Omer, where his father went to try to bring him to Protestantism.
During the First English Civil War his living was sequestered, and he was taken into the house of a Daniel Collins of Maidstone.
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