He suffered death with fortitude, and continued to revile the government to the last.

The Jacobites clamoured loudly against the cruelty of the judges who had tried him and of the Queen who had left him for execution, and, not very consistently, represented him at once as a poor ignorant artisan who was not aware of the nature and tendency of the act for which he suffered, and as a martyr who had heroically laid down his life for the banished King and the persecuted Church.

[458] The Ministers were much mistaken if they flattered themselves that the fate of Anderton would deter others from imitating his example.

His execution produced several pamphlets scarcely less virulent than those for which he had suffered.

Collier, in what he called Remarks on the London Gazette, exulted with cruel joy over the carnage of Landen, and the vast destruction of English property on the coast of Spain.