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His memory belongs too, in a certain sense, to the Essex 

 Institute, 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 print, the mature work 

 of one of the conspicuous 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 partisanship grow- 

 ing out of factions and antagonisms in the Christian 

 Church, with the calm indifference of one whose creed al- 

 lied him with the Mosaic era, such a possibility when sug- 

 gested possessed an interest not easily to be suppressed 

 and prompted a series of efforts for the possession of the 

 manuscript or a copy of it which have only just closed 

 and which are here to be recorded. (See BULLETIN, xx, 

 p. 56). 



In Vol. ii of the Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 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 

 tilling nine of the large quarto pages of that exhaustive 

 work, the following item : 



" A vindication of the Character of Hugh Peters, by 

 "Isaac Disraeli, author of the Curiosities of Literature, 

 "etc., MS." 



"NOTE : This dissertation was to have appeared in con- 

 fection with the last edition of I. Disraeli's The Life and 

 "Reign of Charles 1; 1850 : 2 vols. 8vo, but was acciden- 

 tally omitted. The MS. is still, 1875, penes his son, The 

 "Rt. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli ; cf. also, Curiosities of Lit- 

 "erature (1858), i, p. xxxii." 



