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his experience is embodied in a communication to Sir F. Eden (q.v.), which is printed in that author's work on the Poor. He also wrote Observations of the present state of the Navigation of the River Thames (1794); The Principles of the English Poor Laws Illustrated (1822); and Observations on the Poor Laws in. Ireland (1830). He died at Newbury 8 April, 1834.


PAGET, CHARLES.
Roman Catholic Conspirator.
d. 1612.

Admitted 24 May, 1561.

"Third son of Lord Paget of Drarty" (? Drayton). He was admitted the same day as his elder brother Thomas (q.v.). He was a zealous Roman Catholic, and engaged deeply in the plots surrounding Mary Queen of Scots. In 1587 he was attainted of treason by Act of Parliament, when he entered the service of the King of Spain, but his attainder was removed by James I. and his English property restored to him, and he probably spent the last years of his life in England, dying in the beginning of Feb. 1611-2.


PAGET, HENRY, first EARL of UXBRIDGE.
d. 1743.

Admitted 7 February, 1682-3.

Second son of "William, Lord Paget, Baron of Beaudesert, Stafford. He sat in Parliament for many years for Staffordshire, and in 1710 became a Lord of the Treasury. In the following year he was made a member of the Privy Council, and raised to the peerage as Baron Burton of Burton. He succeeded his father as Baron of Beaudesert in 1713, and was created Earl of Uxbridge the next year. The only judicial appointment he appears to have held was that of Recorder of Lichfield. He died 30 Aug. 1743.


PAGET, JOHN.
Police Magistrate and Author.
1811—1898.

Admitted 16 October, 1835.

Second son of Thomas Paget of Humberstone, Leicestershire, Banker, where he was born in 1811. He was called to the Bar 2 Nov. 1838. In 1850 he became secretary to Lord Chancellor Truro and subsequently to Lord Chancellor Cranworth, and was appointed a Police Magistrate in 1864. Mr. Paget was known as a frequent contributor to Blackwood on historical and biographical subjects, many of his articles being subsequently published under the title of Paradoxes and Puzzles, Historical, Judicial and Literary (1874). He was the author also of a legal text-book on The Income Tax (1842). He died 28 May, 1898.


PAGET, THOMAS, third BARON PAGET of BEAUDESERT.
d. 1590.

Admitted 24 May, 1561.

Second son of Lord Paget of Drarty (? Drayton), and brother of Charles Paget (q.v.). He succeeded to the lamily title and estates on the death of his brother Henry in 1568. Being a Roman Catholic he was constantly in conflict with the authorities, and in 1583 fled to the Continent. In 1587 he was attainted of treason and his estates seized. He died at Brussels early in 1590.