For the first few weeks, many Whigs believed that the sermon was beneath official response. Defoe wrote that "the roaring of this beast ought to give you no manner of disturbance. You ought to laugh at him, let him alone; he'll vent his gall, and then he'll be quiet". Within three days of the sermon being on sale, pamphlet responses were being printed. George Ridpath's "The Peril of Being Zealously Affected, but not Well" attacked Sacheverell, as did White Kennett's "True Answer". The Whig author of "High Church Display'd" claimed that Sacheverell "and his party were entirely routed in those paper-skirmishes". It took six weeks before a pamphlet defence of Sacheverell was published, and thereafter they became numerous.