 He published a verse translation of Homer's battle of the frogs and the mice ("Homer in a Nutshell", 1699) and two translations of Cicero ("Tully's Five Books De Finibus", 1702; "Cicero's Cato Major, etc", 1704).He also translated several of the orations of Athanasius and produced an abridged translation of Eusebius, which was eventually bundled with other translations and abridgments of early church fathers.He was responsible from 1708 to 1710 for a monthly periodical entitled "Censura temporum, or Good and Ill Tendencies of Books".