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Surname	Bigee	Alternative Surname
First Name	Nicholas	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1700-12
Year of Death
Biographical Details	Bigée’s monument to General Cornelius Wood has a portrait bust set against a great baroque trophy of arms, in the centre of which is the club of Hercules, crowned with a plumed helm. To either side of the trophy are skulls with bats’ wings, holding in their teeth heavy fringed curtains which fall in thick folds (3). An entry in the Register of St Peter-in-East, Oxford, records the baptism of ‘Thomas son of Nicholas Bygee’ on 18 September 1707. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 51-2 Archival References: RG/JP, 1, 153