likewise burned Mr. Stoughton's sermon, preached at Christ church on the 30th of January, some years ago. The house were pleased to vote me thanks for prosecuting him, which, you may remember, I did in a difficult time, notwithstanding the opposition I had from the government, and his protection by lord Ikerin, which he pleaded in court: and yet I followed him so close, that I forced him out of his living. After this, we burned Mr. Boyse's book of A Scriptural Bishop[1]; and Some Observators[2]. Our address was brought in yesterday; in which sure we are even with the commons. I forgot to tell you, we agreed to another address against dissenting ministers, and their twelve hundred pounds[3] per annum. The commons made an address to my lord lieutenant, in which they bring him in for re-
- ↑ 'It was printed in 4to, at Dublin, under the title of, "The Office of a Christian Bishop described, and recommended from I Tim. ch. iii. ver. i. An ordination sermon. With an appendix to it, and a postscript, containing an apology for the publication of it." The appendix and postscript were added to the second edition of the Sermon. The author was an eminent dissenting minister at Dublin.'
- ↑ 'Papers published under that title, by John Tutchin, esq., who had been severely sentenced by lord chief justice Jeffereys, in king James the second's reign. He was, at last, attacked in the night, for some offence, which he had given by his writings, and died in consequence of the violence used toward him. Dr. Swift, in his Examiner, No. 15, for November 16, 1710, speaks of this writer, and of Daniel de Foe, author of "The Review of the State of the British Nation," as two stupid illiterate scribblers, both of them fanaticks by profession.
- ↑ 'This address was agreed upon November 9, 1711. The twelve hundred pounds per annum was originally a bounty to those ministers from king Charles the second, confirmed by king William, and continued by queen Anne.'
