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 through a wood, they and their hundred attendants after a long fight killed his men, and took him prisoner, for he had not with him his wishing hat, and casting him into a loathsome dungeon, set him in the stocks and loaded him with irons to make him confess whence he had those vast riches; which, through torment, he discovered, and gave them his purse, and they having proved the experiment thought themselves not safe whilst he was alive, because they knew he could fly through the air, so might escape, they offered the gaoler money to dispatch him, but he refusing, the earl of Armandalia strangled him as he sat in the stocks. In the mean time while Ampedo was inconsolable for the loss of his brother, having in vain offered great rewards for his discovery, at length supposing him dead, burnt his wishing hat, and through grief died. Soon after the earls were apprehended and examined, who confessed the fact in all its circumstances, for which they were both broken on the wheel.