Church men produced another book against Bentley—A Short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity and Justice to those Authors who have written before him . . . 1699. In an Appendix, perhaps written by Dr King, Bennet, the bookseller, answered Bentley's statements in his second Dissertation. This book was answered on Bentley's behalf by Solomon Whateley who had recently produced a new edition of the Letters of Phalaris.[1]
Three other books appeared during this same year (1699) containing references to the dispute: and then there was an interval of peace.
Atterbury's 'Short Review' (1701)
In 1701 Atterbury, the person most concerned on the wrong side of the controversy, produced A Short Review of the Controversy between Mr Boyle and Dr Bentley, a violent attack on Bentley, concluding with a character of Dr Bentley, made up of extracts from Bentley's writings. Neither this book, nor those that preceded, prevented Bentley and Atterbury coming to have respect for one another in later years.[2]
In the same year Swift published the third part of
