Ralph turned and went out.
Then on the fourth of May he was present at the execution of the three priors and the two other priests at Tyburn.

There was an immense crowd there, nearly the whole Court being present; and it was reported here and there afterwards that the King himself was there in a group of five horsemen, who came in the accoutrements of Borderers, vizored and armed, and took up their position close to the scaffold.

There fell a terrible silence as the monks were dragged up on the hurdles, in their habits, all three together behind one horse.

They were cut down almost at once, and the butchery was performed on them while they were still alive.
Ralph went home in a glow of resolution against them.

A tragedy such as that which he had seen was of necessity a violent motive one way or the other, and it found him determined that the sufferers were in the wrong, and left him confirmed in his determination.