During the sentence the Assembly notified that with the severity of the offense the law would allow for the ""boaring of the tongue, cropping one or both ears, and other corporal punishments"". However they decided to take a more moderate and less shameful way of punishment and fined him 40,000 pounds of tobacco, and banished from the province. His associate John Coode was acquitted, and given the advice to ""keepe a Guard upon your Tongue"". Another Fendall partisan, Lt. George Godfrey, a court justice and militia officer in a troop of horse of Capt. Randolph Brandt I (died 1714), of Charles County, did not fare quite as well. Godfrey had attempted to organize a troop ""to rescue and sett at large"" Fendall while he was in jail awaiting trial. Capt. Brandt, a Catholic, informed Lord Baltimore of the plot. The jury sentenced Godfrey to ""be hanged by the neck until he be dead"". A week later Charles, 3rd Lord Baltimore, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.