Because the rise of the English clergy was unpopular in Ireland, Dean Jonathan Swift, launched a violent attack on him in a satirical poem.
One bond between the two men was their shared antipathy to Richard Bettesworth, King's Serjeant and member of the Irish House of Commons for Midleton.
Both Swift and Hore regarded Bettesworth, who was a Presbyterian, as dangerously anti-clerical, due to his support in Parliament for various measures which they feared would weaken the Established Church, and both wrote satirical attacks on him.
It proposed that all disputes about the playing of the card game quadrille should be laid before Bettesworth, but with a right of appeal to a wooden figure called the Upright Man, which hung in Essex Street, and which had never given a corrupt judgment.
Unable to attack Hort directly, Bettesworth retaliated by having Faulkner imprisoned in Newgate for libel on an MP, a common enough sanction at the time.
[2] In his will Hort exhorted his children to carry out his intentions "without having recourse to law and the subtility of lawyers", and in the case of difficulty to refer questions to "the decision of persons of known probity and wisdom, this being not only the most Christian, but the most prudent and cheap and summary way of deciding all differences".