But this is evidently a matter concerning which no general rule can be laid down.

Whether Anderton had, as a mere mechanic, contributed to spread a work the tendency of which he did not suspect, or had knowingly lent his help to raise a rebellion, was a question for the jury; and the jury might reasonably infer from his change of his name, from the secret manner in which he worked, from the strict watch kept by his wife and mother, and from the fury with which, even in the grasp of the messengers, he railed at the government, that he was not the unconscious tool, but the intelligent and zealous accomplice of traitors.

The twelve, after passing a considerable time in deliberation, informed the Court that one of them entertained doubts.
Those doubts were removed by the arguments of Treby and Powell; and a verdict of Guilty was found.
The fate of the prisoner remained during sometime in suspense.

The Ministers hoped that he might be induced to save his own neck at the expense of the necks of the pamphleteers who had employed him.

But his natural courage was kept up by spiritual stimulants which the nonjuring divines well understood how to administer.