The procession was formed with great pomp.

It was headed by the little school children, who were immediately followed by the band of prisoners, each attired in the horrible yet ludicrous manner described.
Then came the magistrates and nobility, the prelates and other dignitaries of the Church: the holy inquisitors, with their officials and familiars, followed, all on horseback, with the blood-red flag of the "sacred office" waving above them, blazoned upon either side with the portraits of Alexander and of Ferdinand, the pair of brothers who had established the institution.

After the procession came the rabble.

When all had reached the neighborhood of the scaffold, and had been arranged in order, a sermon was preached to the assembled multitude.

It was filled with laudations of the inquisition, and with blasphemous revilings against the condemned prisoners.