As he did so he heard a scream of agony.

The leading peasants had reached the doorway, but as they dashed in to place their barrels of powder they were run through and through by the spears of the pikemen.

They fell half in and half out of the doorway, and the barrels rolled some distance away.

Those behind them stopped panic stricken at their sudden fall.

Several of them dropped their barrels and fled, while others ran round the angle of the tower again, coming in violent contact with those following them; all then hurried round behind the church.