Thomas Moore’s Genealogy Site - Person Sheet
Thomas Moore’s Genealogy Site - Person Sheet
NameEphraim Pagitt Rev. 
Birthabt May 1574, England
Baptism28 May 1574, Old, Northamptonshire, England
DeathOct 1646, Deptford, Kent, England
Burial27 Oct 1646, Deptford, Kent, England
FatherReverend Eusebius Pagit (~1547-1617)
MotherAnne
Documentation
1674 Ephraym Pagitt sonne of Eusebie Pagitt and Anne … was Baptized the xxviii day of May. [Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England, UK; Register Type: Parish Registers; Reference Numbers: 246p/1-2.]
EPHRAIM PAGET was born in Northamptonshire, in the year 1575, and educated in Christ’s college, Oxford. He was the son of Mr. Eusebius Paget, a celebrated puritan divine, ad a great sufferer for nonconformity. He was so great a proficient in the knowledge of the languages, that upon his admittance into the university, the Greek professor south his acquaintance, and derived much assistance from him. At the age of twenty-six years, he understood and wrote fifteen or sixteen languages.* Having completed his studies at the university, he became minister at St. Edmund’s church, Lombard-street, London, where he continued many years. While in this situation, he entered into the conjugal state, and married Lady Bord, widow of Sir Stephen Bord, a wealthy family in Sussex. Upon the commencement of the civil wars, he was a great sufferer; and he was so much troubled and molested, says Wood, that, merely for the sake of quietness, he left his benefice in his old age, being then commonly called old father Ephraim. He retired to Deptford in Kent, where he spent the remainder of his days in retirement and devotion. He entered upon the joy of his Lord in the month of April, 1647, aged seventy-two years. His remains, according to his last will and testament, were laid in the Deptford church-yard.†
Though his name is enrolled among the sufferers in the royal cause, he is with justice classed among the puritans. Many excellent divines, who were dissatisfied with the ecclesiastical discipline and ceremonies, and even with episcopacy itsself, were nevertheless, during the national confusions, great sufferers on account of their loyal attachment to his majesty and the civil constitution. Their zeal of the kind and his cause exposed them to the severity of the opposite party. This appears to have been the case with Mr. Paget. He was decided in his attachment to his majesty’s interest and the civil constitution, for which he was a sufferer in those evil times; yet he was opposed to the ecclesiastical establishment, as well as the cruel oppressions of the prelates. Therefore, in the year 1645, being only two years before his death, he united with his brethren, the London ministers, in presenting a petition to the lords and commons in parliament, for the establishment of the presbyterian discipline.‡ He wrote with great bitterness against the independents, baptists, and other sectaries, by which he exposed himself to the resentment of his enemies. “Error and heresy,” it is said, “began to take deep root, and to spread far and wide over the face of the earth; he, therefore, set himself to discover them, and root them up, when he published his ‘Heresiography.’ Hence sprung his trouble; and it is added, “the enemies of goodness making that the ground of their malice, which he wrote to undeceive and bring them into the way of truth. Upon this he was persecuted, reviled, slandered, and, through false suggestions, suffered even imprisonment itself. He bore of manfully, till at last the Lord in mercy put an end to his misery, and received him to himself.”* He was an excellent preacher, and his sermons were as pleasant as they were profitable, drawing the hearts of his auditors, as by a bait of pleasure, to that which is good.†
HIS WORKS.—Christianographie: or, a Description of the multitudes and sundry sorts of Christians in the world not subject to the Pope, 1635.—2. A Treatise of the Ancient Christians in Britany, 1640.—3. Heresiographie: or, a Description of the Heresies of later Times, 1645.—4. The Mystical Wolf, a Sermon on Matt. vii. 15., 1645.
* Paget’s Heresiography, Pref. Edit. 1662.
† Wood’s Athenæ Oxon, vol. ii. p. 52.
‡ Grey’s Examination, vol. ii. Appen. p. 87–89.
* Paget’s Heresiog. Pref.
† Lloyd’s Memoires, p. 510.
[Brook, Benjamin. Lives of the Puritans, Volume III, containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of Religious Libery, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the act of uniformity, in 1669. Hughes, 1813, pages 62–64.]
PAGIT or PAGITT, EPHRAIM (1575–1647), heresiographer, son of Eusebius Pagit [q. v.], was born in Northamptonshire, probably at Lamport, about 1575. He matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, on 25 May 1593, being eighteen years old. There is no evidence of his graduation, but he is said to have been a great linguist, writing fifteen or sixteen languages. On 19 Aug. 1601 he was admitted to the rectory of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street. In May 1638 he wrote a series of letters addressed to Cyril Lucaris, patriarch of Constantinople, and other patriarchs of the Greek church, commending to their notice his own ‘Christianographie,’ the translation of the English prayer-book into Greek by Elias Petley, and Laud's conference with Fisher.
On the outbreak of the civil war Pagit was silenced, and retired to Deptford, Kent. He was always a strong royalist, and in favour of the prayer-book; yet he took the covenant, and in 1645 he joined in a petition to parliament for the establishment of presbyterianism, probably as a preferable alternative to independency. His standard of doctrine he finds in the articles of ‘our mother,’ the church of England. He died at Deptford in April 1647, and was buried in the churchyard. He married the widow of Sir Stephen Bord of Sussex.
His accounts of sectaries are valuable, as he makes it a rule to give authorities; and they take a wide range, since he treats every deflection from Calvinism as heresy, and every approach to independency as faction.
He published:
‘Christianographie; or, a Description of the sundrie Sorts of Christians in the World,’ &c., 1635, 4to; many reprints; best edition, 1640, fol.
‘Heresiography; or a description of the Hereticks and Sectaries of these latter times,’ &c., 1645, 4to; two editions same year; many reprints; sixth and best edition, 1662, 8vo.
‘The Mystical Wolf,’ &c., 1645, 4to (sermon on Matt. vii. 15; reissued with new title-page, ‘The Tryall of Trueth,’ &c.). His nine letters to the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Moscow, and of the Maronites, also to Prince Radziwil of Poland and John Tolnai of Transylvania, are in Harl. MS. 825.
All are duplicated in Greek and Latin; two are also in English, and one in Syriac.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 210 sq.; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, 1714, ii. 174; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, iii. 62 sq.; the Lamport registers do not begin till 1587, those of Oundle in 1625; Pagitt's works.]
Pagett, Ephraim, or Northants, gent. CHRIST CHURCH, matric. 25 May 1593, aged 18 (s. Eusebius, rector of St. Anne’s Aldersgate); rector of St. Edmund, Lombard Street, 1601–48; licenced 29 June, 1602, to marry Jane, daughter of Richard Rogers, of St. Edmund, Lombard Street, and also 16 April, 1632, to marry Mary, relict of Sir Stephen Bord, kt.; died in 1650, aged 84. See Ath. iii. 210; London Marriage Licenses, ed. Foster; & Foster’s Index Eccl. [Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 and Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.]
In the name of God Amen The Sixth Daie of August One Thousand Six Hundred Forty and Six I Ephraim Pagitt Clerke & Parson of the Parish Church of St: Edmond the King in Lombard street doe make this my Last Will and Testament revoking all others Inprimis I commend my Soule to God most humblie entreating his divine Maiestie to bee merccifull unto mee for his blessed Sonn our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christs sake My Bodie I appoint to bee buried in the Church yard att Deptford for my worldlie goods I give to my loving wife Dame Mary Board during her life the Court and Garden adjoyning to the house made over to her as they were in the occupation of my Brother John Standish, and Master Bushell. The rest of my Lands and goods I appoint to bee sold to pay my debts, which being paid I give to my Loving wife forty shillings for a Ring, and fortie shillings to my daughter Elizabeth, and forty shilling a peice to my Two executors The rest of all my worldlie Goods, my debts being paid I give two third parts to my Sonn Ephraim, and one third part to my Executors for the use of my daughter Mary Watson and her children as they shall thinke fitt My executors I appoint to bee my Son George Long and my Cozen Richard Pagitt. Thus desiring Almightie God to blesse my good wife and poore Children & committ them to his protection. I appoint my Sonn Ephraim to bee Overseer, and I give fortie shillings to my Sister Ann. Ephraim Pagitt. Sealed and acknowledged in presence of Thoresby Hardres Thomas Claxton.
On 29 May 1647, probate awarded to George Long, executor, and the court reserves the power to additionally appoint Richard Pagitt as executor.
[The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 200.]
EPHRAIM PAGET was born in Northamptonshire, in the year 1575, and educated in Christ’s college, Oxford. He was the son of Mr. Eusebius Paget, a celebrated puritan divine, ad a great sufferer for nonconformity. He was so great a proficient in the knowledge of the languages, that upon his admittance into the university, the Greek professor south his acquaintance, and derived much assistance from him. At the age of twenty-six years, he understood and wrote fifteen or sixteen languages.* Having completed his studies at the university, he became minister at St. Edmund’s church, Lombard-street, London, where he continued many years. While in this situation, he entered into the conjugal state, and married Lady Bord, widow of Sir Stephen Bord, a wealthy family in Sussex. Upon the commencement of the civil wars, he was a great sufferer; and he was so much troubled and molested, says Wood, that, merely for the sake of quietness, he left his benefice in his old age, being then commonly called old father Ephraim. He retired to Deptford in Kent, where he spent the remainder of his days in retirement and devotion. He entered upon the joy of his Lord in the month of April, 1647, aged seventy-two years. His remains, according to his last will and testament, were laid in the Deptford church-yard.†
Though his name is enrolled among the sufferers in the royal cause, he is with justice classed among the puritans. Many excellent divines, who were dissatisfied with the ecclesiastical discipline and ceremonies, and even with episcopacy itsself, were nevertheless, during the national confusions, great sufferers on account of their loyal attachment to his majesty and the civil constitution. Their zeal of the kind and his cause exposed them to the severity of the opposite party. This appears to have been the case with Mr. Paget. He was decided in his attachment to his majesty’s interest and the civil constitution, for which he was a sufferer in those evil times; yet he was opposed to the ecclesiastical establishment, as well as the cruel oppressions of the prelates. Therefore, in the year 1645, being only two years before his death, he united with his brethren, the London ministers, in presenting a petition to the lords and commons in parliament, for the establishment of the presbyterian discipline.‡ He wrote with great bitterness against the independents, baptists, and other sectaries, by which he exposed himself to the resentment of his enemies. “Error and heresy,” it is said, “began to take deep root, and to spread far and wide over the face of the earth; he, therefore, set himself to discover them, and root them up, when he published his ‘Heresiography.’ Hence sprung his trouble; and it is added, “the enemies of goodness making that the ground of their malice, which he wrote to undeceive and bring them into the way of truth. Upon this he was persecuted, reviled, slandered, and, through false suggestions, suffered even imprisonment itself. He bore of manfully, till at last the Lord in mercy put an end to his misery, and received him to himself.”* He was an excellent preacher, and his sermons were as pleasant as they were profitable, drawing the hearts of his auditors, as by a bait of pleasure, to that which is good.†
HIS WORKS.—Christianographie: or, a Description of the multitudes and sundry sorts of Christians in the world not subject to the Pope, 1635.—2. A Treatise of the Ancient Christians in Britany, 1640.—3. Heresiographie: or, a Description of the Heresies of later Times, 1645.—4. The Mystical Wolf, a Sermon on Matt. vii. 15., 1645.
* Paget’s Heresiography, Pref. Edit. 1662.
† Wood’s Athenæ Oxon, vol. ii. p. 52.
‡ Grey’s Examination, vol. ii. Appen. p. 87–89.
* Paget’s Heresiog. Pref.
† Lloyd’s Memoires, p. 510.
[Brook, Benjamin. Lives of the Puritans, Volume III, containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of Religious Libery, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the act of uniformity, in 1669. Hughes, 1813, pages 62–64.]
PAGIT or PAGITT, EPHRAIM (1575–1647), heresiographer, son of Eusebius Pagit [q. v.], was born in Northamptonshire, probably at Lamport, about 1575. He matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, on 25 May 1593, being eighteen years old. There is no evidence of his graduation, but he is said to have been a great linguist, writing fifteen or sixteen languages. On 19 Aug. 1601 he was admitted to the rectory of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street. In May 1638 he wrote a series of letters addressed to Cyril Lucaris, patriarch of Constantinople, and other patriarchs of the Greek church, commending to their notice his own ‘Christianographie,’ the translation of the English prayer-book into Greek by Elias Petley, and Laud's conference with Fisher.
On the outbreak of the civil war Pagit was silenced, and retired to Deptford, Kent. He was always a strong royalist, and in favour of the prayer-book; yet he took the covenant, and in 1645 he joined in a petition to parliament for the establishment of presbyterianism, probably as a preferable alternative to independency. His standard of doctrine he finds in the articles of ‘our mother,’ the church of England. He died at Deptford in April 1647, and was buried in the churchyard. He married the widow of Sir Stephen Bord of Sussex.
His accounts of sectaries are valuable, as he makes it a rule to give authorities; and they take a wide range, since he treats every deflection from Calvinism as heresy, and every approach to independency as faction.
He published:
‘Christianographie; or, a Description of the sundrie Sorts of Christians in the World,’ &c., 1635, 4to; many reprints; best edition, 1640, fol.
‘Heresiography; or a description of the Hereticks and Sectaries of these latter times,’ &c., 1645, 4to; two editions same year; many reprints; sixth and best edition, 1662, 8vo.
‘The Mystical Wolf,’ &c., 1645, 4to (sermon on Matt. vii. 15; reissued with new title-page, ‘The Tryall of Trueth,’ &c.). His nine letters to the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Moscow, and of the Maronites, also to Prince Radziwil of Poland and John Tolnai of Transylvania, are in Harl. MS. 825.
All are duplicated in Greek and Latin; two are also in English, and one in Syriac.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 210 sq.; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, 1714, ii. 174; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, iii. 62 sq.; the Lamport registers do not begin till 1587, those of Oundle in 1625; Pagitt's works.]
Pagett, Ephraim, or Northants, gent. CHRIST CHURCH, matric. 25 May 1593, aged 18 (s. Eusebius, rector of St. Anne’s Aldersgate); rector of St. Edmund, Lombard Street, 1601–48; licenced 29 June, 1602, to marry Jane, daughter of Richard Rogers, of St. Edmund, Lombard Street, and also 16 April, 1632, to marry Mary, relict of Sir Stephen Bord, kt.; died in 1650, aged 84. See Ath. iii. 210; London Marriage Licenses, ed. Foster; & Foster’s Index Eccl. [Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 and Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.]
In the name of God Amen The Sixth Daie of August One Thousand Six Hundred Forty and Six I Ephraim Pagitt Clerke & Parson of the Parish Church of St: Edmond the King in Lombard street doe make this my Last Will and Testament revoking all others Inprimis I commend my Soule to God most humblie entreating his divine Maiestie to bee merccifull unto mee for his blessed Sonn our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christs sake My Bodie I appoint to bee buried in the Church yard att Deptford for my worldlie goods I give to my loving wife Dame Mary Board during her life the Court and Garden adjoyning to the house made over to her as they were in the occupation of my Brother John Standish, and Master Bushell. The rest of my Lands and goods I appoint to bee sold to pay my debts, which being paid I give to my Loving wife forty shillings for a Ring, and fortie shillings to my daughter Elizabeth, and forty shilling a peice to my Two executors The rest of all my worldlie Goods, my debts being paid I give two third parts to my Sonn Ephraim, and one third part to my Executors for the use of my daughter Mary Watson and her children as they shall thinke fitt My executors I appoint to bee my Son George Long and my Cozen Richard Pagitt. Thus desiring Almightie God to blesse my good wife and poore Children & committ them to his protection. I appoint my Sonn Ephraim to bee Overseer, and I give fortie shillings to my Sister Ann. Ephraim Pagitt. Sealed and acknowledged in presence of Thoresby Hardres Thomas Claxton.
On 29 May 1647, probate awarded to George Long, executor, and the court reserves the power to additionally appoint Richard Pagitt as executor.
[The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 200.]