Background
The son of Eusebius Pagit, he was born in Northamptonshire, probably at Lamport, about 1575.
The son of Eusebius Pagit, he was born in Northamptonshire, probably at Lamport, about 1575.
In fact the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the title of this book was a neologism, derived by analogy from Christianography, an earlier title, to indicate a catalogue or classification of heretics. He matriculated at 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 August 1601 he was admitted to the rectory of Saint Edmund the King, Lombard Street.
In them he commended to their notice his own Christianographie, the translation of the English prayer-book into Greek by Elias Petley, and William Laud"s conference with John Fisher. On the outbreak of the First English Civil War Paget was silenced, and retired to Deptford, Kent.
He died at Deptford in April 1647, and was buried in the churchyard.