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`` What your honor pleases , '' Mr. Drummond boldly answered . `` I expect no mercy from you . I have followed the lead of my conscience and did what I might to free my countrymen from oppression . '' He was condemned at one o'clock and hanged at four . By a cruel decree of the governor , his brave wife Sarah was denounced as a traitress and banished with her children to the wilderness , where , for a while , they were forced to subsist on the charity of friends almost as poor as they . Berkeley 's rage was not yet fully satisfied . The thoughtful Mr. Lawrence had taken care of himself , for he knew but too well what to expect , should he be captured .