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NameRev Eusebius Pagitt 
[95, Pagitts, pp. 109-110], [54, His own article]
[95, Pagitts, pp. 109-110], [54, His own article]Birthca 1547, Carnford, Northants
Deathca Jun 1617
BurialSt. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate Street, London
GeneralPuritan divine.
FatherRichard Pagitt
MotherCatherine Isham
DNB Main notes for Rev Eusebius Pagitt
Pagit, Eusebius 1547?-1617
Name: Pagit, Eusebius
Dates: 1547?-1617
Active Date: 1587
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Religion and Occultism
Occupation: Puritan divine
Place of
Birth: Cranford, Northamptonshire
Education: Christ Church, Oxford, Christ's College, Cambridge
Burial: St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate Street, London
Sources: Fuller's Worthies of England, 1662, ii. 290 sq...
Contributor: A. G. [Alexander Gordon]
Article
Pagit, Eusebius 1547?-1617, puritan divine, born at Cranford, Northamptonshire, about 1547, was son of Richard Pagitt, of that place, by Catherine, daughter of Euseby Isham of Pytchley and sister of John Isham of Lamport. At twelve years of age he entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a chorister. According to his son's account, given to Fuller, ‘he brake his right arme with carrying the pax;’ the limb was permanently disabled, and he was in the habit of signing himself ‘lame Eusebius Pagit.’ He was afterwards student of Christ Church, and stood high in philosophy, being ‘commonly called the golden sophister.’ When about 17, he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, 22 Feb. 1563-4, was scholar in 1564-5, and graduated B.A. in 1567-8. He was ordained deacon in London in June 1569, aged 22, and was rector of Old, Northamptonshire, in 1570. In 1571 he was suspended from preaching for not subscribing the articles. On 21 April 1572 he became rector of Lamport, Northamptonshire. On 29 Jan. 1574 he was cited before Edmund Scambler [q.v.], then bishop of Peterborough, for nonconformity, was suspended, and shortly afterwards was deprived. He subscribed Cartwright's book of discipline (1574), and with John Oxenbridge, B.D., was arrested and taken to London by order from Archbishop Grindal, for taking a leading part in the presbyterian associations of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.
Subsequently he was presented to the rectory of Kilkhampton, Cornwall. He told the patron and the bishop (probably John Walton, elected 2 July 1579) that he could not conform in all points, and was admitted and inducted on this understanding. His attitude was peaceable and his ministry laborious and popular. In March 1584 he was brought up before his ordinary and enjoined to an exact conformity. Towards the end of 1584 articles of accusation, founded on his preaching, were exhibited against him before the high commission by Farmer, curate of Barnstaple, Devonshire. He appeared before the commission, presided over by Archbishop Whitgift, on 11 Jan. 1585. The articles were dropped, and he was charged with refusing to use the prayer-book and to observe the ceremonies. In his written defence he admitted his obligation to use the prayer-book authorised by the Uniformity Act of 1559 (this was Edward VI's second prayer-book), and denied that he had ever refused to do so. He allowed that he had not exactly followed that book, but pleaded that there was no copy of it provided for his church; that greater liberty in varying from the statutory form than he had taken was used by Whitgift himself, by his own bishop (Walton), and by other bishops and clergy; that his conscience would not allow him to follow the prescribed forms in every particular, and that his bishop had promised to refrain (as he legally might) from urging him to do so. He claimed a conference with his bishop or some other to be appointed by the commission, relying apparently on the ‘quieting and appeasing’ clause in the preface to the prayer-book. He was immediately suspended. On his preaching, without stipend, after suspension (though it appears that he had the queen's pardon, and had obtained a release from Whitgift, but not from the commission) he was deprived for ignoring the suspension, disusing the surplice and the cross in baptism, and omitting parts of the prayers. Counsel's opinion adverse to the legality of the deprivation was brought forward without effect, and the living was filled up.
Pagit now set up a school; but the high commission required him to take out a license and subscribe the articles. This he scrupled at. On 3 June 1591 he addressed an appeal to Sir John Hawkins or Hawkyns [q.v.], who had previously stood his friend, asking his intercession with Elizabeth. He stated that he abhorred schism, and had never been present in any ‘separate assembly,’ but had always adhered to and communicated in his parish church. Neal says he remained silenced till the death of Whitgift (29 Feb. 1604). On 21 Sept. 1604 he obtained the rectory of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate Street, London, which he held till his death. He died in May or June 1617, and was buried in his church. His son Euphraim [q.v.] is separately noticed. His name is spelled Pagit and Pagett; the former seems to be his own spelling.
He published: 1. ‘A Godlie and Fruitefull Sermon / upon / what Provision ought to be made for the Mynister,’ &c. [1580?], 8vo, 1583, 8vo (on tithes). 2. ‘The Historie of the Bible, briefly collected, by way of Question and Answer,’ &c., 1613, 12mo (often reprinted and translated into French and German). 3. ‘A Godly Sermon / at Detford,’ 8vo, 1586, 16mo. 4. ‘A Catechism,’ 1591, 8vo. His ‘Latin Catechism’ is mentioned by Heylyn, ‘Aerius Redivivus,’ 1670, p. 350. He translated Calvin's harmony of the first three gospels with his commentary on St. John, ‘A Harmonie vpon Matthew, Mark,’ &c., 1584, 4to.
Sources
Fuller's Worthies of England, 1662, ii. 290 sq.; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 204 sq.; Newcourt's Repert. Eccl. 1708, i. 278; Strype's Whitgift, 1718, iv. 377, an appendix; Bridges's Northamptonshire, 1791, ii. 113, 229; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, ii. 253 sq.; Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, 1822, i. 354 sq.; Cole's manuscript Athenæ Cantabr.; Harl. MSS. 813, ff. 14 sq.; Morrice Manuscripts, Puritan Controversy, ff. 139 sq. (also copied at ff. 261 sq., and in Second Part of a Register, ff. 570 sq.), all in Dr. Williams's Library; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub.
Contributor: A. G.
published 1895
Name: Pagit, Eusebius
Dates: 1547?-1617
Active Date: 1587
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Religion and Occultism
Occupation: Puritan divine
Place of
Birth: Cranford, Northamptonshire
Education: Christ Church, Oxford, Christ's College, Cambridge
Burial: St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate Street, London
Sources: Fuller's Worthies of England, 1662, ii. 290 sq...
Contributor: A. G. [Alexander Gordon]
Article
Pagit, Eusebius 1547?-1617, puritan divine, born at Cranford, Northamptonshire, about 1547, was son of Richard Pagitt, of that place, by Catherine, daughter of Euseby Isham of Pytchley and sister of John Isham of Lamport. At twelve years of age he entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a chorister. According to his son's account, given to Fuller, ‘he brake his right arme with carrying the pax;’ the limb was permanently disabled, and he was in the habit of signing himself ‘lame Eusebius Pagit.’ He was afterwards student of Christ Church, and stood high in philosophy, being ‘commonly called the golden sophister.’ When about 17, he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, 22 Feb. 1563-4, was scholar in 1564-5, and graduated B.A. in 1567-8. He was ordained deacon in London in June 1569, aged 22, and was rector of Old, Northamptonshire, in 1570. In 1571 he was suspended from preaching for not subscribing the articles. On 21 April 1572 he became rector of Lamport, Northamptonshire. On 29 Jan. 1574 he was cited before Edmund Scambler [q.v.], then bishop of Peterborough, for nonconformity, was suspended, and shortly afterwards was deprived. He subscribed Cartwright's book of discipline (1574), and with John Oxenbridge, B.D., was arrested and taken to London by order from Archbishop Grindal, for taking a leading part in the presbyterian associations of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.
Subsequently he was presented to the rectory of Kilkhampton, Cornwall. He told the patron and the bishop (probably John Walton, elected 2 July 1579) that he could not conform in all points, and was admitted and inducted on this understanding. His attitude was peaceable and his ministry laborious and popular. In March 1584 he was brought up before his ordinary and enjoined to an exact conformity. Towards the end of 1584 articles of accusation, founded on his preaching, were exhibited against him before the high commission by Farmer, curate of Barnstaple, Devonshire. He appeared before the commission, presided over by Archbishop Whitgift, on 11 Jan. 1585. The articles were dropped, and he was charged with refusing to use the prayer-book and to observe the ceremonies. In his written defence he admitted his obligation to use the prayer-book authorised by the Uniformity Act of 1559 (this was Edward VI's second prayer-book), and denied that he had ever refused to do so. He allowed that he had not exactly followed that book, but pleaded that there was no copy of it provided for his church; that greater liberty in varying from the statutory form than he had taken was used by Whitgift himself, by his own bishop (Walton), and by other bishops and clergy; that his conscience would not allow him to follow the prescribed forms in every particular, and that his bishop had promised to refrain (as he legally might) from urging him to do so. He claimed a conference with his bishop or some other to be appointed by the commission, relying apparently on the ‘quieting and appeasing’ clause in the preface to the prayer-book. He was immediately suspended. On his preaching, without stipend, after suspension (though it appears that he had the queen's pardon, and had obtained a release from Whitgift, but not from the commission) he was deprived for ignoring the suspension, disusing the surplice and the cross in baptism, and omitting parts of the prayers. Counsel's opinion adverse to the legality of the deprivation was brought forward without effect, and the living was filled up.
Pagit now set up a school; but the high commission required him to take out a license and subscribe the articles. This he scrupled at. On 3 June 1591 he addressed an appeal to Sir John Hawkins or Hawkyns [q.v.], who had previously stood his friend, asking his intercession with Elizabeth. He stated that he abhorred schism, and had never been present in any ‘separate assembly,’ but had always adhered to and communicated in his parish church. Neal says he remained silenced till the death of Whitgift (29 Feb. 1604). On 21 Sept. 1604 he obtained the rectory of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate Street, London, which he held till his death. He died in May or June 1617, and was buried in his church. His son Euphraim [q.v.] is separately noticed. His name is spelled Pagit and Pagett; the former seems to be his own spelling.
He published: 1. ‘A Godlie and Fruitefull Sermon / upon / what Provision ought to be made for the Mynister,’ &c. [1580?], 8vo, 1583, 8vo (on tithes). 2. ‘The Historie of the Bible, briefly collected, by way of Question and Answer,’ &c., 1613, 12mo (often reprinted and translated into French and German). 3. ‘A Godly Sermon / at Detford,’ 8vo, 1586, 16mo. 4. ‘A Catechism,’ 1591, 8vo. His ‘Latin Catechism’ is mentioned by Heylyn, ‘Aerius Redivivus,’ 1670, p. 350. He translated Calvin's harmony of the first three gospels with his commentary on St. John, ‘A Harmonie vpon Matthew, Mark,’ &c., 1584, 4to.
Sources
Fuller's Worthies of England, 1662, ii. 290 sq.; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 204 sq.; Newcourt's Repert. Eccl. 1708, i. 278; Strype's Whitgift, 1718, iv. 377, an appendix; Bridges's Northamptonshire, 1791, ii. 113, 229; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, ii. 253 sq.; Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, 1822, i. 354 sq.; Cole's manuscript Athenæ Cantabr.; Harl. MSS. 813, ff. 14 sq.; Morrice Manuscripts, Puritan Controversy, ff. 139 sq. (also copied at ff. 261 sq., and in Second Part of a Register, ff. 570 sq.), all in Dr. Williams's Library; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub.
Contributor: A. G.
published 1895