Birch tells us, in his Life of Tillotson, that Archbishop Wake had not been able to form even a perfect catalogue of all the tracts published in this controversy.] [Footnote 119: Cardinal Howard spoke strongly to Burnet at Rome on this subject Burnet, i.662.There is a curious passage to the same effect in a despatch of Barillon but I have mislaid the reference.
One of the Roman Catholic divines who engaged in this controversy, a Jesuit named Andrew Patton, whom Mr.Oliver, in his biography of the Order, pronounces to have been a man of distinguished ability, very frankly owns his deficiencies.

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P.having been eighteen years out of his own country, pretends not yet to any perfection of the English expression or orthography." His orthography is indeed deplorable.

In one of his letters wright is put for write, woed for would.

He challenged Tenison to dispute with him in Latin, that they might be on equal terms.
In a contemporary satire, entitled The Advice, is the following couplet "Send Pulton to be lashed at Bushy's school, That he in print no longer play the fool." Another Roman Catholic, named William Clench, wrote a treatise on the Pope's supremacy, and dedicated it to the Queen in Italian.