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 io- B. iv. DEC. 23, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 503 choice—ale mulled and otherwise, and ale- posset, this last the drink of the evening. Then the games, a bit of dancing if there •was room for it, hunt the slipper, turn trencher, " Neighbour, neighbour, I've come to torment you," " Do as lao," with various forfeit games. The " forfeits " were the best liked because most of the sentences imposed •wound up with kissing beneath the mistletoe hanging from the middle of the Christmas bush. The forfeits were not, however, all of the " bread and cheese and kisses " order ; some were mainly unpleasant, and were used as the means of " paying some one out." It was not pleasant for a young man to be ordered, before his sweetheart and all the company assembled, to kneel at the fireplace, look up the chimney, and say :— Peep, fool, l>eep, Peep at thy brother: Why mayn't one fool Peep at another! But such an abasement, with others quite as cutting, had to be done and were done at homely Christmas Eve parties, and none were the worse friends for it afterwards. Such Christmas Eves were happy times for the old folks sitting in the chimney nooks, with glasses on the hob. The men smoked long churchwarden pipes, looking on with approval, smacking their thighs with a "Dash my wigs !" when any funny incident sent them into hearty laughter. If such could look on a present-day Christmas tree, they would tell us that nothing beats " the Christmas bush." THOS. KATCLIFFE. Worksop. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTMAS. (Continued from 10th S. ii. 503.) TWENTIETH LIST. A CORRESPONDENT at 10th S. iii. 32 referred to my contribution at 10th S. ii. 503 as my " second list." It was in fact my nineteenth, for the series began at 6th S. vi. 506, and has been carried on with scarcely a break ever since. Saxton, Peter, vicar of Leeds. Christmas Cheere, 1606.—Hunter, 'S. Yorkshire,' i. 94. Ludovicus Granatensis, Tractatus De mysterio Incarnationis Filij Dei Colon. Agripp.—12mo (pp. 1-110), 1614. Havsted, P., M.A. Ten Sermons, 1635.—No. 5, ' Upon the Day of the blessed Innocents.' Prideavx, lohn. D.D., Regius Professor, anc Rector of Kxeter Colledge. A Christians Free-will Offering. As it was delivered in a Sermon on Christmasse day, at Christ Church in Oxford Oxford.—Sm. 4to, 15 leaves, on Psalm ex. 3, 1636. Gardyner, Richard, D.D., Canon of Ch. Ch. Sermon preach'd in the cathedrall chyrch of Chrisl in Oxford, on Christmas Day: wherein ii defended the Catholirjue Doctrine that Christ is True God Truely Incarnate. Oxford.—On St. John i. 14 ? deration Of the Sacred Nativity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesvs Christ; Grounded upon the- 'Scriptures, and confirmed by the practice of the 'lirUtian Church in all Ages. Oxford, Leonard Lichfield.-Small In,, 17 leaves, 1644. Bernard, N. The Styll-Borne Nativitie, or A lopy of an Incarnation Sermon, that should have 't-ii delivered at St. Margarets-Westminster, on Saturday December the tive and twenty, 1647, in Jin af ternoone, but Prevented by the Committee for Plunder'd Ministers who sent and seized the Preacher, carried him from the Vestry of the said Shurch, and Committed him to the Fleet, for hia undertaking to Preach without the License of Parliament. Now Published by the Authoritie of that Scripture which saith. Preach the Word, be instant, in season, out of season. London Printed For their sakes who love our Lord Jesus and his Birth day.—Dated from the Fleet, lanuary 8. 1647 ; on St. John i. 14. Sm. 4to, 17 leaves, 1648. Warmstry, Thomas, D.D. The Vindication of the- Solemnity Of the Nativity of Christ; Shewing the grounds upon which the Observation of that and< other Festivalls is justified in the Church. With a- short Answer to certaine Quaeries propounded by one Joseph Heming, in opposition to the aforesayd- practise of the Church. — Sm. 4to, 14 leaves, no place. 1648. " Pastor Fido." Festorvm Metropolis. The Metropolitan Feast. Or the Birth-Day Of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, Annually to be kept holy by them that call upon him in all Nations. Proved by Scriptures, the practice of the Church Primi- tive, and Reformed ; the Testimonies of the Fathers, and Modern Divines; strong Reasons, grounded on the Word of God ; confirming Miracles;. Jtc. Written by Pastor Fido. London : Printed by Matthew Simmons.—Sm. 4to. 43 leaves, 1652. Dedication, signed B, to John Dutton, of Sheir- borne, co. Glouc., esq., who sheltered him during exile ; defends " plum-pottage and minc'd pies,, baies and rosemary," and quotes Fisher's 'Christian- Caveat.' Woodward, Hezekiah. Christmas Day, the Old Heathens Festive Day in honour of Saturn their Idol God, the Papists Massing Day, the True Christian Man's Fasting Day. 1656. Anonymous. Against the Observation of a Day in memory of Chnsts birth, written in 1659, and now tendred to the consideration of all sober and serious Persons, this present Deceinb. 1660, by a reverend Divine.—12mo, 4 leaves, no separate title or imprint. "Friar John." A Sermon preached by Fryer John, curate of Colignac in France. Uj>on the Feast of Epiphanie, commonly called Twelfth Day. London.—Sm. 4to, 4 leaves, 16SO. Stratford, N., D.D., Dean of St. Asaph. Sermon before the King at White Hall on Christmas Day, 1682. London.—4to, 17 leaves (on Rom. viii. 3), 1683. Gower, Humfrey, D.D., Master of St. John's Coll., Cambridge. Sermon before the King at