Some critics have impugned his legal knowledge, but probably without justice.
In his closing years he had some controversy with John Locke, whom he considered to have impugned the doctrine of the Trinity.
Sir James Rose-Innes, a lawyer whose intellectual gifts and patriotism have never been impugned, was not a " party man," and this made him, on more than one occasion, a somewhat difficult political ally.
Its poetic merits are few, and its historical accuracy is easily impugned.
He subsequently defended a woman of Arretium, whose freedom was impugned on the ground that Sulla had confiscated the territory of that town.
