Gosson then, exclaiming that he was murdered without cause, knelt upon the scaffold.

His head fell while an angry imprecation was still upon his lips.
Several other persons of lesser note were hanged daring the week-among others, Matthew Doucet, the truculent man of gingerbread, whose rage had been so judiciously but so unsuccessfully directed against the Prior of Saint Vaast.

Captain Ambrose, too, did not live long to enjoy the price of his treachery.

He was arrested very soon afterwards by the states' government in Antwerp, put to the torture, hanged and quartered.

In troublous times like those, when honest men found it difficult to keep their heads upon their shoulders, rogues were apt to meet their deserts, unless they had the advantage of lofty lineage and elevated position.
"Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema." This municipal revolution and counter-revolution, obscure though they seem, were in reality of very grave importance.