One bond between the twho men was their shared antipathy to Richard Bettesworth, King's Serjeant and member of the Irish House of Commons for Midleton. Both Swift and Hore regarded Bettesworth, who was a Presbyterian, as dangerously anti-clerical, due to his support in Parliament which would weaken the Established Church, and both wrote satirical attacks on him. Hort's satire was entitled "A new proposal for the better regulation and improvement of quadrille". It proposed that all disputes about the playing of the card game quadrille should be laid before Bettesworth, but with a right of appeal to a wooden figure called the Upright Man, which hung in Essex Street. Hort arranged for it to be printed by the leading Irish publisher George Faulkner. Unable to attack Hort directly, Bettesworth retaliated by having Faulkner imprisoned in Newgate for libel on an MP, a common enough sanction at the time. Faulkner obtained his freedom after two days by an apology; Swift suggested that Hort pay his legal expenses.