He wrote, "An Argument for the
Bishops' right of judging in capital Cases in Parliament, &c.;" for
which he expected (says Anthony) no less than to be made lord chief
baron of the exchequer in Ireland. But falling short of that
honourable office, which he too ambitiously catched at, and
considering the loss of another place, which he unjustly possessed,
he soon after appeared one of the worst and most inveterate enemies
to church and state that was in his time, and the most malicious,
and withal the most ignorant, scribbler of the whole herd; and was
thereupon stiled, by a noted author, (Dryden, in the following
Vindication,) _Magni nominis umbra_. Hunt also published, "Great
and weighty Considerations on the Duke of York, &c." in favour of
the exclusion. He had also the boldness to republish his high
church tract in favour of the bishops' jurisdiction, with a whig
postscript tending to destroy his own arguments.--_Ath. Ox._ II, p.
728.
2. A tory paper, then conducted with great zeal, and some
controversial talent, by Sir Roger L'Estrange.
3. Alluding to the fate of Stephen College, the Protestant joiner; a
meddling, pragmatical fellow, who put himself so far forward in the
disputes at Oxford, as to draw down the vengeance of the court. He
was very harshly treated during his trial; and though in the toils,
and deprived of all assistance, defended himself with right English
manliness.
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