Then follows torture, but there is little to extract, for the king still holds himself an instrument sent by God--though it were for the punishment of the world.

Sentence is read on these men--placed in an iron cage they shall be shown round the bishop's diocese, a terrible warning to his subjects, and then brought back to Muenster; there with glowing pincers their flesh shall be torn from the bones, till the death-stroke be given with red-hot dagger in throat and heart.

For the rest let the mangled remains be placed in iron cages swung from the tower of St.Lambert's Church.
"On the 26th of January, 1536, Jan Bockelson and Knipperdollinch meet their fate.

A high scaffolding is erected in the market-place, and before it a lofty throne for his grace the bishop, that he may glut his vengeance to the full.

Let the rest pass in silence.