William Hugh ( - 1549)

William Hugh was a native of Yorkshire. He was educated at Corpus Christi college, Oxford. In 1543, he took the degree of master of arts. At that time he was almost wholly occupied as tutor. Afterwards falling under the notice of Lady Denny, he was appointed her chaplain, and enabled to pursue his studies with less interruption through her assistance. He was the author of a small work, entitled, "The Troubled Man's Medicine," which went through several editions in the sixteenth century. He also translated into English, ''The Book of Bertram, the priest, intreating of the body and blood of Christ." This able and ancient argument against transubstantiation was of considerable use in removing the errors of popery in England. Another work, in which he combated the popish error that infants dying unbaptized would not be saved, he dedicated to queen Catharine Parr. Hugh died at Oxford in 1549, from breaking a blood vessel.