A LOST PAPER ON HUGH PETER. 85 
His memory belongs too, in a certain sense, to the Essex 
Institnte, for it is to that organization that the preservation 
of what remains of the church in which he preached has 
been committed. 
Under these circumstances the possibility of securing 
for publication here an impartial and discriminating esti- 
mate of his character, not now in })rint, the mature work 
of one of the consi)icuous writers of English History in 
the last generation, himself a Jew and an Israelite indeed 
who could regard the hot rage of Cavalier and Roundhead 
thus wholly removed from all bias and })artisanship grow- 
ing out of factions and antagonisms in the Christian 
Church, with the calm indifl'erence of one whose creed al- 
lied him with the Mosaic era, — such apossil)ility when sug- 
gested possessed an interest not eiisily to be suppressed 
and prompted a series of efforts f(jr the possession of the 
manuscript or a copy of it which liave only just closed 
and which are here to l)e recorded. (See Bulletin, xx, 
p. 56). 
In Vol. II of the Bihliotheca Gornuhiensis of the Messrs. 
George Clement Boase and William Prideaux Courtney, 
published at London in 1878, occurs, at page 474, amongst 
a list of works relating to the Reverend Hugh Peters, and 
filling nine of the large quarto pages of that exhaustive 
work, the following item : 
" A vindication, of the Cltaracter of Hugh Peters, by 
^^Isaac Disraeli, author of the Curiosities of Literature, 
"etc., MS." 
"Note : This dissertation was to have appeared in con- 
"nection with the last edition of I. Disraeli's The Life and 
"Reign of Charles I; 1850 : 2 vols. Svo, but was acciden- 
"tally omitted. The MS. is still, 181 D, penes his son. The 
"Rt. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli ; cf. also, Curiosities of Lit- 
"erature (1858), i, p. xxxii." 
