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Nathan Paget (1615–1679) was an English physician, active during the English Civil War, under the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and after the Restoration. Despite being a mainstay of a generally conservative profession, he was interested in the experimental methods of the Enlightenment. Although from a strongly Presbyterian background, he seems to have developed radical political and religious sympathies. ==Origins== Paget was baptised at Manchester on 31 March 1615.〔, also at 〕 He was the son of : *Thomas Paget - at the time a minister at Blackley, although he later served in Amsterdam, Shrewsbury and Stockport. Blackley chapel was subsidiary to St Mary's Church, Manchester, a great collegiate church with many subsidiary chapels across its vast parish of more than 35,000 acres.〔(Booker, p. 2. )〕 Thomas Paget had proceeded to M.A. only in 1612〔 and was recruited to serve at Blackley by William Bourne, a Puritan fellow of St Mary's, who was particularly interested in the quality of preaching at the outlying chapels.〔(Booker, p. 66. )〕 Thomas Paget's elder brother and Nathan's uncle was John Paget, a Presbyterian theologian and controversialist who had gone into exile in 1605 and was serving as pastor of the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. They probably belonged to the Paget family of Rothley in Leicestershire, although their parentage is unknown. : *Margery Goldsmith of Nantwich, daughter of the mercer Nicholas Goldsmith and his wife Dorothy.〔(Hall, p. 479 )〕 The Goldsmiths were closely allied with the Minshull family of Wistaston and Marjorie's sister, Ellen, was married to Richard Minshull of Weld's Green (now Wells Green, south of Crewe).〔Cf. Minshull Pedigree in (Hall, p. 476-7 )〕 Thomas Paget already had family connections with Nantwich, as John Paget had served as Rector there 1598–1604〔 and in 1602 had married the widow Briget Thrushe née Masterson,〔(Hall, p. 416 )〕 who belonged to the oldest of Nantwich's major families.〔(Hall, p. 295 )〕 Nathan's parents were married at St Mary's Church, Nantwich on 6 April 1613.〔(Hall, p. 296 )〕 He was their first child and had two surviving younger sisters, Dorothy and Elizabeth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nathan Paget」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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