The matter was pursued vigorously through the courts, as a vendetta, by Sir Samuel Barnardiston, even after Soame's death against his widow.
[13] Made Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Soame died on Malta in June 1686, having called at Algiers and Tunis to renew treaty agreements.
James Brydges had been the choice of the Levant Company, but Charles II took against his political sympathies, and imposed Soame by prerogative in 1684.
[15][14] Soame made a translation, The Art of Poetry, of Nicolas Boileau's L'Art poétique.
[16] The Dryden revisions included substitutions, for example Thomas Duffett for Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy in speaking about burlesque, and Samuel Butler for Clément Marot; Ben Jonson replaces Molière.