Note 362 — Chapter XVI · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE REIGNS OF ANNE, GEORGE I., AND GEORGE II.
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State Trials, xvi. 324; Parl. Hist. viii. 195 et post. Most of the bishops voted against their restless brother; and Willis, Bishop of Salisbury, made a very good but rather too acrimonious a speech on the bill. Id. 298. Hoadley, who was no orator, published two letters in the newspaper, signed "Britannicus," in answer to Atterbury's defence; which, after all that had passed, he might better have spared. Atterbury's own speech is certainly below his fame, especially the peroration. Id. 267.
No one, I presume, will affect to doubt the reality of Atterbury's connections with the Stuart family, either before his attainder or during his exile. The proofs of the latter were published by Lord Hailes in 1768, and may be found also in Nicholls's edition of Atterbury's Correspondence, i. 148. Additional evidence is furnished by the Lockhart Papers, vol. ii. passim.