The culprit was found lying in bed.

His wife, a woman of remarkable beauty, with her sister, was in attendance upon him.

The spectacle of those two fair women, nursing a wounded soldier fallen upon the field of honour, might have softened devils with sympathy.

But the Jesuit was closely followed by a band of soldiers, who, notwithstanding the supplications of the women, and the demand of Kloet to be indulged with a soldier's death, tied a rope round the commandant's necks dragged him from his bed, and hanged him from his own window.

The Calvinist clergyman, Fosserus of Oppenheim, the deacons of the congregation, two military officers, and--said Parma--"forty other rascals," were murdered in the same way at the same time.