Some were hanged up by their thumbs, others by the head, and burning things were hung on to their feet.

They put knotted strings about men's heads, and writhed them till they went to the brain.

They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them.

Some they put into a chest short and narrow and not deep and that had sharp stones within, and forced men therein so that they broke all their limbs.

In many of the castles were hateful and grim things called rachenteges, which two or three men had enough to do to carry.