He and several of his accomplices were hanged.

A soldier, who was accused of exclaiming, during the affray, that he should like to run his sword through a Papist, was shot; and Edinburgh was again quiet: but the sufferers were regarded as martyrs; and the Popish Chancellor became an object of mortal hatred, which in no long time was largely gratified.

[130] The King was much incensed.

The news of the tumult reached him when the Queen, assisted by the Jesuits, had just triumphed over Lady Dorchester and her Protestant allies.

The malecontents should find, he declared, that the only effect of the resistance offered to his will was to make him more and more resolute.