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The Church in England held a similar festival involving a [[boy bishop]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mv7qBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT13&dq=lord+of+misrule+history&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIqaH_n5jRAhUDwYMKHQihBLEQ6AEISjAJ#v=onepage&q=lord%20of%20misrule%20history&f=false|title=History of Christmases Past: History Events|last=Love|first=Suzi|date=20 December 2013|publisher=Suzi Love|isbn=9780992345686|language=en}}</ref> This custom was abolished by [[Henry VIII]] in 1541, restored by the Catholic [[Mary I]] and again abolished by Protestant [[Elizabeth I]], though here and there it lingered on for some time longer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/resources/tudor-life/tudor-christmas |title=Tudor Christmas, The Anne Boleyn Files |access-date=10 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116154755/http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/resources/tudor-life/tudor-christmas/ |archive-date=16 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the Continent it was suppressed by the [[Council of Basel]] in 1431, but was revived in some places from time to time, even as late as the eighteenth century. In the [[Tudor period]], the Lord of Misrule (sometimes called the Abbot of Misrule or the King of Misrule)<ref name=":0" /> is mentioned a number of times by contemporary documents referring to revels both at court and among the ordinary people.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stow|first=John|title=A Survey of London (1603)|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=60025|work=British History Online|accessdate=16 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hadfield|first=Miles & John|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas|year=1961|publisher=Cassell|location=London|pages=134–135}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Higginbotham|first=Susan|title=The Lord of Misrule Comes to Court: 1551/52|url=http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/posts/the-lord-of-misrule-comes-to-court-155152/|accessdate=16 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415124132/http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/posts/the-lord-of-misrule-comes-to-court-155152/|archive-date=15 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>