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 you have a better husband than this?' To whom, seeing his cruelty, she answered, 'You shall never marry me to any but this.' And so going along with them, when she saw her husband thrown into the river, she leapt in after him, and embracing him, endeavoured to save his life; but being unable to do it, they both perished together; and the next day she was found with him fast in her arms, and they were both buried in one grave.

Some Protestants were thrust into dungeons and vaults full of snakes, toads, and other filthy vermin: others were put into places full of iron spikes, so that they could neither sit nor stand; they put gags into the mouths of some, and then thrust their host or wafer cake down their throats.

The city of Lesna, was one of the most ancient and flourishing cities in all the kingdom of Poland, which was wholly laid in ashes, being three whole days in flames before it was consumed; in which there perished many hundred Protestants. Here they pulled off the noses of some, and put out the eyes of others. They cut off the hands of a pious matron of Lesna, and then murdered three of her children before her face. Another woman having her hands and feet cut off, and her tongue cut out, they sowed up in a sack, and left her for two days, in which she lived, making a most miserable lamentation.

In the Lower Poland, one Mr. Samuel Cardus, a minister, they used with extreme cruelties, first putting out his eyes, and leading him about as a miserable spectacle; then they pulled off his fingers with pincers, and poured melted lead down his throat, and while he was yet half alive, they