In 1660, amidst heated debates over the nature of the church settlement, the Huguenot divine Jean Gailhard published a tract on The Controversie between Episcopacy and Presbytery. In favour of the latter, he attacked the notion, ‘most uncharitable’ to European Reformed Protestantism, that episcopal ordination was necessary for legitimate ministry. Gailhard highlighted the dangers of exalted claims for episcopacy. ‘To prove, their Prelacy to be of a divine Right’, he wrote of English churchmen, ‘is to disown the Kings Supremacy from whom they acknowledge to receive that preferment’. Gailhard was not the only Restoration writer to express such worries, for many Dissenters and their sympathisers insisted that iure divino episcopacy and supremacy were incompatible.