 William Law ("Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor") and Thomas Sherlock (dean of Chichester), in particular, gave vigorous defences of church polity.Hoadly himself wrote "A Reply to the Representations of Convocation" to answer Sherlock, Andrew Snape, provost of Eton, and Francis Hare, then dean of Worcester.The three men, and another opponent, Robert Moss, dean of Ely, were deprived of their royal chaplaincies by the king.