Then the sentences were read to the individual victims.

Then the clergy chanted the fifty-first psalm, the whole vast throng uniting in one tremendous miserere.

If a priest happened to be among the culprits, he was now stripped of the canonicals which he had hitherto worn; while his hands, lips, and shaven crown were scraped with a bit of glass, by which process the oil of his consecration was supposed to be removed.

He was then thrown into the common herd.
Those of the prisoners who were reconciled, and those whose execution was not yet appointed, were now separated from the others.

The rest were compelled to mount a scaffold, where the executioner stood ready to conduct them to the fire.