Dygon, John

DYGON, John, the composer of the three-part motet ‘Ad lapidis positionem,’ printed in Hawkins's History, is described there as Prior of St. Austin's (i.e. St. Augustine's Abbey), Canterbury. The identity of the name with that of an abbot of this monastery (1497–1509) has led to several ingenious conjectures. The only other authenticated circumstance in the composer's life, which has been hitherto published, is that he took the degree of Bachelor of Music at Oxford...