"He was then," says the chronicler, cheerfully, "burned well and finally" in the same place whence he had formerly been rescued.

[Valenciennes MS.] This desperate resistance to tyranny was for a moment successful, because, notwithstanding the murmurs and menaces by which the storm had been preceded, the authorities had not believed the people capable of proceeding to such lengths.

Had not the heretics--in the words of Inquisitor Titelmann--allowed themselves, year after year, to be taken and slaughtered like lambs?
The consternation of the magistrates was soon succeeded by anger.

The government at Brussels was in a frenzy of rage when informed of the occurrence.

A bloody vengeance was instantly prepared, to vindicate the insult to the inquisition.