T. O'G.
Dublin.
Rev. John Paget (Vol. iv., p. 133.; Vol. v., pp. 66. 280. 327.).
—Will the following facts, taken from Oldfield and Dyson's History and Antiquities of Tottenham, 1790, pp. 48-50., be of any use to CRANMORE? He is quite right as to the substitution of the baptismal name James to the Baron of the Exchequer, instead of John, as Dugdale has it: for he is called "James Pagitt, Esq.," in the inscription to his memory in Tottenham Church. He was a baron from 1631 till his death in 1638.
The authors describe him as "son of Thomas of the Inner Temple, London, son of Richard Crawford, in the county of Northampton, son of Thomas of Barton Seagrave, &c., in the said county." He married three wives: 1. Katherine, daughter of Dr. Lewin, Dean of the Arches; 2. Bridget, daughter of Anthony Bowyer; and 3. Margaret, daughter of Robert Harris of Lincoln's Inn. The latter we find, in Ashmole's Antiquities of Berks, vol. iii. p. 88., had been married twice before, and that her father was of Reading.
Baron Paget had no children by his last two wives; but by his first, besides two daughters, he had two sons: Justinian of Hadley, Middlesex, custos brevium of the Court of King's Bench; and Thomas.
If CRANMORE can communicate to me any details of his history, I shall feel obliged by his doing so.
EDWARD FOSS.
Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell's Confession (Vol. iv., p. 313.).
—ÆGROTUS refers, I presume, to a document which he will find in a little volume entitled, Les Affaires du Comte de Bodnée, published at Edinburgh by the Bannatyne Club in 1829. The narrative was written in the old French, at Copenhagen. The original is still preserved in the Royal Library of the Castle of Drottningholm in Sweden. Bothwell wrote it on "la vielle des Roys," 1568, and appears to have given it to the Chevalier de Dauzay, the French ambassador, to be communicated to the King of Denmark. Dauzay received it on the 13th of January, 1568, and placed it before the ministers of the King on the 16th of January. M. Mignet, in his history, throws discredit on this confession, styling it "a very adroit narrative" (L'Histoire de Marie Stuart, vol. i. appendix H.); though such a self-crimination, at such a time, would seem to any impartial mind to weigh strongly in favour of the ill-fated young queen, whose character it tends to exculpate.