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his royal governor for New York, with Major Richard Ingoldsby as lieutenant-governor. Ingoldsby was the first to arrive, and demanded the transfer of the government to himself, a demand with which Leisler refused to comply, because Ingoldsby was unable to show proper credentials. This misunderstanding was followed by an unfortunate attack upon the royal troops by Leisler's followers, and, although he disavowed responsibility for the manifestation, it was charged up to him as one of his offenses. Upon the arrival of Governor Sloughter, in March, 1691, he was imprisoned, and then, by swift proceedings, sentenced to die the death of a traitor. On May 17, less than two months after giving up the reins of government, he was hanged, together with his son-in-law, Jacob Milbourne. No appeal of his case to England was permitted, a melancholy circumstance in view of the action of Parliament four years later in formally reversing his attainder of treason after a dispassionate review of all the facts.