 Clarendon speaks of his "eminent parts", "great learning", and "signal reputation".Anthony Wood praises his "great reading and knowledge in the more profound and perplexed parts of the law", and his devotion to "his mother the university of Oxon".As a politician, his moderation and consistency were generally recognised, though for his part in the impeachments of Strafford and Stafford he was savagely attacked by Roscommon in his "Ghost of the late House of Commons" (1680–1).