page_title: Thomas Paget (Puritan minister)
section_title: Education and ordination
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Paget (Puritan minister) / Education and ordination
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Martin Heton, Bishop of Ely, 1607.
context_page_description: Thomas Paget was an English Puritan clergyman, controversialist and theologian, committed to a Presbyterian church order. As a minister in Manchester, he was an early opponent of Laudian ceremonies in the Church of England. He served the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam, and later at Shrewsbury was a strong supporter of the regicide and of the republican Commonwealth of England. He spent his final year as rector of Stockport.
context_section_description: Paget entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a sizar, a student receiving some assistance with costs, at Easter 1605.  He graduated B.A. early in 1609. A Thomas Paget B.A. of Trinity College was ordained deacon by the local ordinary, Martin Heton, on 6 June 1609 at Little Downham, a Cambridgeshire village where the Bishop of Ely had a palace: this seems to be him, although the Clergy of the Church of England database makes no link between this and his later career in Manchester. He proceeded to M.A. in 1612.
caption: Martin Heton, Bishop of Ely.
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