255 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. commandment. Afterwards, I preached without living, and without stipend ; and when I was forbidden, I ceased. I then taught a few children, to obtain a little bread for myself and my family; andwhen some disliked this, and commanded me to give it up, I obeyed and gave it up. " I beseech your lordship to continue your great favour towards me, that I may not be turned out of house and calling, and be obliged, as an idle rogue and vagabond, to go from door to door, begging my bread, while I am able to obtain it ina lawful calling. And I beseechyou to be a means of obtaining her majesty's favour, that I may be allowed to live in some place and calling, as becometh a peaceable subject. And I beseech the Lord God to bless and prosper your honour for ever. Your lordship's most obedient servant, " Lame, EITSEBIUS PAGET." How long the, good man continued under the ecclesias- tical censure, we are not able to learn. It is, however, probable he continued some years, Mr. Paget subscribed the " Book of Discipline.". But we find no further account of him till September 21, 1604, when he became rector of St. Ann and Agnes, in Aldersgate-street, London. There he laboured in the Lord's vineyard, till he finished his work, dying in May, 1617, aged seventy-five years. His remains were interred in his own church. Wood says, " he was many years a constant and faithful preacher of God's word."+ And Fuller styles him " the golden so- phister, a painful preacher," and author of an excellent History of the Bible."t His Womcs.-1. Sermon onTithes, 1583.-2. ACatechism, 1591. -3. The History of the Bible, briefly collected by way of Question and Answer, 1627.-4. Sermon on Election.-5. A Translation of Calvin's Harmony of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. He was author also of some other pieces. THOMAS STONE.-This pious divine was educated in Christ's Church, Oxford, chosen one of the proctors of the university, and became rector of Warkton in Northamp- tonshire. He was a person of good learning and great worth, a zealous puritan, and a member of the classis, v Neal's Puritans, vol. i. p. 423. + Wood's Athena; Oxon. vol. i. p. 357.-Newcourt's Repert. Fed, vol. i. p. 278. t 'Fuller's Worthies, part U. p. 290.
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