Chapter C: P. E

_Aue Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi_ (Vol. i., pp. 215. 267.).--These two nuns belonged to the convent of St. Margaret at Gouda. In 1714 there still existed in the library of that city a book entitled _Coll==tarius_ (Commentarius) _supra Psalmos_.[2] This work, written by Peter Por of Floref, and dedicated to John of Arckel, bishop of Utrecht, was transcribed on parchment in the year 1454 by seven nuns of the above convent, these were:

Maria Joannis,
_Geza Yzenoude_,
_Aua Trici_,
Jacoba Gerardi,
Agatha Nicolai,
Maria Martini,
en Maria Gerardi.

[Footnote 2: Sic in MSS. Legendumne co[=m]tarius?]

On the back of the MS. is a list of the books belonging to the convent: these were then seventy in number.

Lambertus Wilhelmi, a monk of Sion Abbey, and director of these nuns, composed in the year 1452 a _History of the Convent of St. Margaret at Gouda_, by order of its superintendent, Heymanus Florentii, a monk of 'S. Gravezande. This convent was burnt in 1572 by one of Lumey's captains, Hans Aulterman, who for his many crimes was condemned on the 11th of April, 1573, and burnt alive at the gates of Gouda.

The Nicholas de Wit mentioned in the Query was prior of the monastery of St. Michael, near Schoonhoven. (See further T. Walvisch, _Beschrÿving van Gouda_, II. pp. 123-172.)

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_Rev. John Paget_ (Vol. iv., p. 133.).--Of this clergyman the following mention is made in the _Resolutions of the States General_:

"9 January, 1607. Op te requeste van John Paget, predikand van de
Engelsche regimenten, is geordonneert de selve te stellen in
handen van den Ovesten Horace Vere, Ridder, omme ordre te stellen,
dat den suppl. van syn tractament mach worden betaelt."

9 January, 1607. Touching the request of John Paget, chaplain of
the English regiments, is ordained that the same be placed in the
hands of the Colonel Horace Vere, Knight, that provision may be
made for the payment of the suppliant's salary.

From the register of a marriage celebrated at Leyden the 7th of January, 1649, between Mathys Paget, smith, and Maria Picters Del Tombe, both of that city, it would appear that other members of the Paget family have resided there.

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The Rev. John Paget doubtless belonged to an English or Scotch family, sometimes also called Pagett, or Pagetius. John Paget, who was the first minister of the English church in Amsterdam, came there in 1607, and preached his introductory sermon on the 5th of February, in the chapel prepared for that purpose: his formal induction took place in the month of April, in the same year, and here he remained twenty-nine years. Thomas Paget, invited from Blackeley in England, was inducted in November 1639, and departed the 29th of August 1646, for Shrewsbury. Robert Paget, or Pagetius, minister of the Scotch congregation at Dordrecht from 1638 to 1685, "was a man of extensive biblical knowledge, but of extreme modesty." When the English church in Amsterdam was offered him, he could not be prevailed upon to accept it. With Jacob Borstius he lived on terms of close intimacy.

Consult the _Kerkelÿk Alphabeth_ of Veeris, Wagenaar, _Beschrÿving van Amsterdam_, and Balen _Beschrÿving van Dordt_; also _The History of the Scottish Church at Rotterdam_, by the Rev. William Steven, M.A., Edinburgh and Rotterdam, 1832, and Schotel, _Kerkelÿk Dordrecht_, vol. i. p. 457., and the note (2), vol. ii. p. 217., where many particulars concerning the Pagets, especially Robert, are found. It is, however, probable that CRANMORE may obtain more information touching his family in England than in this country. In Töcher's _Gelehrten Lexicon_ mention is made of Ephraim, Eusebius, and Wilhelmus Paget, all of whom resided in England.

We also read in the _Lÿste van de Namen der Predikanten in de Provincie van Utrecht_, by H. van Rhenen, 1705, p. 66., that Robert Paget, an Englishman, and English preacher at Dordt, nephew of Thomas Paget, was invited to Utrecht in 1655, but declined. He remained at Dordrecht, and died there in 1684.