Benjamin Hoadley, at that time (1717-1720) Bishop of Bangor. His discourses denying absolute authority to institutions divine as well as secular gave rise to the so-called Bangorian Controversy, "one of the most intricate tangles of fruitless logomachy in the language" (Leslie Stephen, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, ch. X, par. 31). Savage's poem was "The Convocation," 1717.