The privations became more and more terrible, and more and more terrible the means of allaying them.

The bodies of citizens that had died were eaten; and then men and women and children were killed in order that they might be eaten too.

Under such conditions, is it any wonder that Muenster became a city of the mad, mad beyond the sane man's wildest dreams of excess?
A few of the least demented of Jan's followers at length determined that the tragedy must cease, and the city was delivered into the bishop's hands.

"What judgment," writes Professor Pearson, "his grace the bishop thinks fit to pass on the leaders of Sion at least deserves record.

Rottmann has fallen by St.Martin's Church, fighting sword in hand, but Jan of Leyden and Knipperdollinch are brought prisoners before this shepherd of the folk.