Ephraim Pagit [SEP] date of death
Ephraim Pagit
Ephraim Pagit (Pagitt) (c. 1575 – April 1647) was an English clergyman and heresiographer. His "Heresiography" of 1645 was a precursor of the better-known "Gangraena", and is a well-referenced account of contemporary sectarian Protestantism in England. In fact the "Oxford English Dictionary" indicates that the title of this book was a neologism, derived by analogy from "Christianography", an earlier title, to indicate a catalogue or classification of heretics. By political conviction Pagit was a
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- Glückel of Hameln, German diarist (died 1727)
Deaths.
- January 29 – Francis Meres, English miscellanist and cleric (born 1565)
- May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian, poet and dramatist (born 1581)
- June 12 – Thomas Farnaby, English classicist and cleric (born c. 1575)
- "Unknown date" – Ephraim Pagit, English writer on comparative religion (born c. 1575)