Several more authors had earlier rushed in where Anstey feared to tread and adapted his style, and even his characters, to political themes. They include Ralph Broome's "The Letters of Simkin the Second, poetic recorder of all the proceedings upon the trial of Warren Hastings" (London 1789); "The New Parliamentary Register in a series of poetical epistles" (1791), which was dedicated to Anstey and featured Simkin as a newly elected Member of Parliament; and George Watson-Taylor's later "The Cross-Bath Guide, correspondence upon the subject of a late unexpected dispensation of honours by 'Sir Joseph Cheakill'" (1815). At length John Anstey himself joined in and adapted his father's style to his own lawyer's profession in "The Pleader's Guide, a didactic poem", (London 1796), comprising eight verse lectures.