[4] Clement Paman was an early student of the Puritan Sidney Sussex College (founded 1596) at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA in 1632, an MA in 1635 and later Doctor of Divinity.
[2][5] William White in The Book Collector follows Alumni Cantabrigienses in saying Paman was 16 when he first matriculated in 1631/2, making his date of birth c.1615.
A manuscript at Harvard University identifies him as later being the chaplain to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, the Lord Deputy of Ireland.
[1] Peter Davidson, in his introduction to Poetry and Revolution, describes him as a "moderate Protestant", although in Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order, Margo Todd goes as far to call him an "ultra-royalist cleric".
[9] His poems are mainly of a devotional nature; perhaps his best-known work is "On Christmas Day to My Heart", a poem from c.1660 held by the British Library which was anthologised in the 1940 Oxford Book of Christian Verse,[10] Norman Ault's A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (1938) and was set to music by Richard Rodney Bennett for the 1999 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.