Bardez led a strong force directly into the council-chamber, and arrested every one of the astonished magistrates.

At the same time, his confederates had scoured the town and taken every friar in the city into custody.

Monks and senators were then marched solemnly down towards the quay, where a vessel was in readiness to receive them.

"To the gallows with them--to the gallows with them!" shouted the populace, as they passed along.

"To the gibbet, whither they have brought many a good fellow before his time!" Such were the openly, expressed desires of their fellow-citizens, as these dignitaries and holy men proceeded to what they believed their doom.