"And the like assistance being afterwards desired from me, by many more persons of the best quality, who soon after fell into the same danger, I, living at some distance from London, did venture by letters, to find the best rules and directions I could, towards the making of their just defence, being heartily concerned with them".Five years afterwards he published the letters, together with "A Defence of the late Lord Russel's Innocency", a spirited and eloquent reply to an anonymous pamphlet called "An Antidote against Poyson".