Notice of the celebration of mass at midnight shall be proclaimed without the abbey.

Now remove the prisoners." Upon this the captive ecclesiastics were led forth.

Father Eastgate was taken to a strong room in the lower part of the chapter-house, where all acts of discipline had been performed by the monks, and where the knotted lash, the spiked girdle, and the hair shirt had once hung; while the abbot was conveyed to his old chamber, which had been prepared for his reception, and there left alone..