Six millions of property were destroyed by the fire, and at least as much more was obtained by the Spaniards.

In this enormous robbery no class of people was respected.
Foreign merchants, living under the express sanction and protection of the Spanish monarch, were plundered with as little reserve as Flemings.
Ecclesiastics of the Roman Church were compelled to disgorge their wealth as freely as Calvinists.

The rich were made to contribute all their abundance, and the poor what could be wrung from their poverty.

Neither paupers nor criminals were safe.

Captain Caspar Ortis made a brilliant speculation by taking possession of the Stein, or city prison, whence he ransomed all the inmates who could find means to pay for their liberty.
Robbers, murderers, even Anabaptists, were thus again let loose.