In 1835 he was presented to the rectory of Elford near Lichfield, and for some years was chaplain to Richard Bagot, bishop of Bath and Wells.
Elford Church was restored under his auspices in 1848, and its dedication festival was made an occasion of annual reunion among Staffordshire churchmen.
To The Englishman's Library, from 1840, he contributed Tales of the Village; and to The Juvenile Englishman's Library, from 1845, of which he was for some time editor:[1] While examining manuscripts at Levens Hall, Westmoreland, Paget came across some letters from Richard Graham (1679–1697), youngest son of Colonel James Graham (1649–1730), who died prematurely while keeping terms at University College, Oxford, and his tutor, Hugh Todd.
In 1840 he edited Simon Patrick's Discourse concerning Prayer and Treatise of Repentance and of Fasting, to rank with the series of reprints from the writings of English bishops issued by John Henry Newman.
[1] The privately printed Some Records of the Ashtead Estate and of its Howard Possessors: with Notices of Elford, Castle Rising, Levens, and Charlton, Lichfield, 1873, was a compilation from family papers and other sources.