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 France, that these Gospellers, and all their favourers, should be excommunicated; and that none of them should buy or sell, according as it was foretold, in Revel. xiii. 17.

One Giovanni, with his wife and child, were thrown down from a very high rock, the mother holding the child in her arms; and three days after they were found dead, but the child was alive, and clasped so fast in the mother's arms, that they could hardly get it out. They took another at the same place, and put out his eyes, exposed him some time as a miserable spectacle; and he being yet alive, they flayed off his skin, and hung it in the windows of four principal houses in Lucerne, after they had divided it into four pieces. They took out the brains of Daniel Cardon, and frying them in a pan, eat them up like cannibals and then cut open his breast also, that they might eat his heart, but were frighted by some Protestant troops that were marching that way. They buried four women between 8 and 90 years old alive; they cut divers to pieces, and gave their flesh to dogs. In another place, having taken eleven Protestants, they heated a furnace, and forced them to throw one another into it, till they came to the last man whom they threw in themselves.

They stabbed some with poisoned knives in the legs and feet, and so left them in torment till they died. One Gros, a minister's son, being taken by them, they cut off his flesh in small goblets while he was alive, and in the presence of his wife and children, whom they murdered likewise before his eyes. A woman with seven children were all barbarously murdered in their