Here a large number of priests had been collected.

The Marseillais entered, and the prisoners were called by name to assemble in the garden.
First the Archbishop of Arles was murdered; then they fell upon the others and hewed them down.

The Bishops of Saintes and Beauvais were among the slain, and the assassins did not desist until the last prisoner in the Carmelites had been hacked to pieces.

Graves had already been dug near the Barrier Saint Jacques and carts were waiting to convey the corpses there, showing how carefully the preparations for the massacre had been made.
Then the Marseillais returned to the Abbaye, and, with a crowd of followers, entered the great hall.

Here the bailiff Maillard organized a sort of tribunal of men taken at random from the crowd.