 To a rejoinder from the same pen, "The Magistracy and Government of England vindicated", he wrote in answer "The Lord Russel's Innocency further defended", assailing his opponent with abuse and almost expressly naming him as Sir Bartholomew Shower.In point of legal criticism Atkyns's letters and pamphlets are effective and still worth reading, but they do not shake the received opinion that the law of treason was not strained against Lord Russell.In 1684 we find his name associated with another great case, when Sir William Williams, the speaker of the House of Commons, was indicted for printing and publishing Dangerfield's narrative of the Popish Plot.