His furniture was thrown out of the windows; his wife and children turned out of doors in the snow.

He was then carried to the market place, and exposed during some time as a malefactor.

His gown was torn to shreds over his head: if he had a prayer book in his pocket it was burned; and he was dismissed with a charge, never, as he valued his life, to officiate in the parish again.

The work of reformation having been thus completed, the reformers locked up the church and departed with the keys.

In justice to these men it must be owned that they had suffered such oppression as may excuse, though it cannot justify, their violence; and that, though they were rude even to brutality, they do not appear to have been guilty of any intentional injury to life or limb, [267] The disorder spread fast.