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1891. Christmas in Canton.—Chambers's Journal, December, pp. 801-4.
1893.—Christmas-time in Florida. By Charles Edwardes.— Chambers's Journal, January, pp. 4-6.
1895. The Evolution of Christmas Annuals. By Arthur T. Pask.— Windsor Magazine, ii. 697-709.
1895. Proverbial Rhymes and Sayings for Christmas and the New Year. 'The Dennam Tracts,' ii. 90-99—Folk-lore Society, 1895
1895. Two Christmas Eve CustoniB.—Folk-lore, vi. 93.
1896. The Hood-Game at Haxey, Lincolnshire [on Old Christmas Day]. By Mabel Peacock.— Folklore, vii. 330-49.
1899. Christmas Mummers at Rugby. Hv W. H. D. Rouse. — Folk-lore, x. 186-94, and Plates II.-VI. Christmas Mummers, id., 351-2.
1899. La Veillee de Noel. Par Paul Sebillot.— Reviewed Folk-lore, x. 458-9.
1900 [Animals carried in procession at Christmas—Folk-lore, xi. 257-8.
1901. County Folk-lore. Vol. II. Yorkshire. Festivals of New Year and Christmas, pp. 230-31, .269-83.— Folk-lore Society, 1901.
1902. The Vessel Cup.—Folk-lore. xiii. 946 The Calenig or Gift [Christmas Bough, Lincolnshire].— M, 202-3.
1903. County Folk-lore. Vol. III. Orkney and Shetland Islands: [Yule-tide Customs], pp. 194- 205.— Folk-lore Society, 1903.
1903. The Festival of Uphelly A'(or the End of Yule), as now celebrated at Lerwick.—Folk-lore, xiv. 74-7.
1903. The Mediaeval Stage. By E. K. Chambers. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I. The Mummers' Play, pp. 205 (also Vol." II. pp. 282-9).—With bibliographies 227 ; New Year Customs, pp. 249-73; The Feast of The Boy Bishop, pp. 336-71 Fools, pp. 274-335;
1904. County Folk-lore. Vol. IV. Northumber- land. Festival Customs [at Christmas], pp. 79-88. —Folk-lore Society, 1904.
1904. Jul: Allesjaelestiden; Hedensk, Kristen Julefest. By H. F. Feilberg. Vol. I. Copenhagen,
1904.—Reviewed Folk-lore (1905), xvi. 366-7.
1908. County Folk-lore. Vol. V. Lincolnshire. [New Year and Christmas-tide Festivals], pp. 168-70, 214-25; Haxey: Throwing the Hood [a Twelfth- Day custom], pp. 267-73.—Folk-lore Society, 1908.
1908. Christmas.—'Catholic Encyclopaedia,' iii. 724-8.
1909. The Hooden Horse, an East Kent Christ- mas Custom. By Percy Maylam, Canterbury. 1909. Pp. xv and 124.—Reviewed Folk-lore, xxi. 246-9.
1909. [English Customs at Christmas. ] — Folk- lore, xx. 488-90.
1910. The Horn-Dance.— Fo'klore, xxi. 38-40.
1910. Christmas. — 'Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics,' ed. J. Hastings, iii. 601-8. Christmas Customs, id., 608-10.
1911. Christmas.— The Times, 25 Dec. The Reality of Christmas.—Id., 26 Dec.
1912. Christmas in 1812.— Morning Post, 24 Dec. Royal Christniases.—Id.
1912. The Children's Festival.—Saturday Review, Ul Deo., pp. 762-4.
1912. Psalm xlv. on Christmas Day.—TheSpecta tor, 21 Dec, p. 1062. [A letter by A. L. Mavhew.]
1912. Christmas Old and New. — The Times, "25 Deo.
1912 Christmas Carols. The Folk-8ongs of the Soul By J. A. Anderson.—The Queen, 21 Deo., p. 1124.
1912. The Reality of Yuletide. By G. Ham- merton.—CasstlVs Magazine, Dec, pp. 147-52.
1912. The Humour of Christmas. By I. Heald. —Pearson's Magazine, Dec, pp. 571-9.
1912. Mediaeval Housekeeping. Christmas Fare: Ancient and Modern. By H. Maofarlane.—English Itlus. Magazine, Dec, pp. 228-31.
1912. A Christmas Fete in California. By L. H. Wall —Centura, Dec, pp. 210-17.
1912. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Chris- tian and Pagan. By Clement A. Miles. Pp. 400. (Unwin, 1912.)
Roland Austin,
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HUGH PETERS.
(See 11 S. vi. 221, 263, 301, 463.)
VI. Peters as a Husband and a Lover.
In the year 1635 Peters was minister of the English church at Rotterdam. In the 'Travels of Sir William Brereton,' p. 6 (under date May, 1634), there is the following allusion to the fact :—
"We went in the afternoon to the English church and heard Mr. Peters, a right zealous and worthy man. This was formerly intended for a playhouse, but now converted to a better use, to a church; Mr. Peters being there entertained, who is allowed by the States one hundred pounds per annum—five thousand guilders."
It is quite certain that 5,000 guilders per annum (about 500l., and not 100l.) was not paid to Peters. Peters, in his private capacity, was unknown to the Dutch "States," but, with the ministers of the English churches at Amsterdam (Pagett), Flushing (Roe), Middleburgh (Drake), Leyden (Goodyer), and The Hague (Balmeford), received the small stipend paid to each minister alike (probably about 1l. a week). All the facts can be gathered from the MSS. of Sir William Boswell. English resident at The Hague (Add. MS. 6394). In addition to the ministers of the town churches, there were two chaplains to the merchants and eleven garrison chaplains. Finally, there were four regimental chaplains, the chief of whom was Dr. Stephen Goffe, chaplain to the regiment of the English general Lord Vere. Dr. Goffe, of course, was the highest paid of all the English clergy, and received a salary of 1,548 gulden (154l. 16s.), and he had to pay something to get it in (Add. MS. 6394, fo. 171). Peters, it seems, had himself "re-ordained" in Holland (ibid., fo. 172), and framed an absurd "covenant" for his congregation to take. It is not surprising, therefore, that Sir Wm. Boswell reminded him that
