The houses were all rifled of their contents, and men were forced to carry the booty to the camp, who were then struck dead as their reward.

The town was then fired in every direction, that the skulking citizens might be forced from their hiding-places.

As fast as they came forth they were put to death by their impatient foes.

Some were pierced with rapiers, some were chopped to pieces with axes, some were surrounded in the blazing streets by troops of laughing soldiers, intoxicated, not with wine but with blood, who tossed them to and fro with their lances, and derived a wild amusement from their dying agonies.

Those who attempted resistance were crimped alive like fishes, and left to gasp themselves to death in lingering torture.