There was, however, much left.
The strong boxes of the merchants, the gold, silver, and precious jewelry, the velvets, satins, brocades, laces, and similar well concentrated and portable plunder, were rapidly appropriated.

So far the course was plain and easy, but in private houses it was more difficult.
The cash, plate, and other valuables of individuals were not so easily discovered.

Torture was, therefore; at once employed to discover the hidden treasures.

After all had been, given, if the sum seemed too little, the proprietors were brutally punished for their poverty or their supposed dissimulation.

A gentlewoman, named Fabry, with her aged mother and other females of the family, had taken refuge in the cellar of her mansion.