[citation needed] In 1718, he negotiated with leading French churchmen about a projected union of the Gallican and English churches to resist the claims of Rome.

[3] In dealing with Nonconformism, he was tolerant and even advocated a revision of the Book of Common Prayer if that would allay the scruples of dissenters.

[1] His writings are numerous, the chief being his State of the Church and Clergy of England... historically deduced (London, 1703).

[1] In those writings, he produced a massive defence of Anglican Orders and again disproved the Nag's Head Fable by citing a number of documentary sources.

[4] The work was written in part as a refutation of the arguments of the "high church" opposition to the perceived Erastian policies of King William and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison.