William Wigges, Confessor of the Faith, is recorded in Catholic history as a priest, ordained at Douai in 1582, imprisoned in the Clink in 1584, transferred to Newgate in 1585, and brought to trial on July 5 in that year. He was acquitted of High Treason, but was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and incarcerated in Wisbech Castle, dying in prison not earlier than in 1595. From early days he was confused with William Way, as in John Wilson’s English Martyrology of 1608, and was included in lists of martyrs from 1590 onwards, William Way having been executed at Kingston in 1588.