r jaw. Boiling lead was
poured upon his fingers. The same repeated with his toes. A knotted cord
was twisted about his forehead in such a manner as to force out his
eyes.

During the whole of these horrid cruelties, particular care was taken
that his wounds should not mortify, and not to injure him mortally till
the last day, when the forcing out of his eyes proved his death.

Innumerable were the other murders and depredations committed by those
unfeeling brutes, and shocking to humanity were the cruelties which they
inflicted on the poor Bohemian protestants. The winter being far
advanced, however, the high court of reformers, with their infernal band
of military ruffians, thought proper to return to Prague; but on their
way, meeting with a protestant pastor, they could not resist the
temptation of feasting their barbarous eyes with a new kind of cruelty,
which had just suggested itself to the diabolical imagination of one of
the soldiers. This was to strip the minister naked, and alternately to
cover him with ice and burning coals. This novel mode of tormenting a
fellow-creature was immediately put into practice, and the unhappy
victim expired beneath the torments, which seemed to delight his inhuman
persecutors.

A secret order was soon after issued by the emperor, for apprehending
all noblemen and gentlemen, who had been principally concerned in
supporting the protestant cause, and in nominating Frederic elector
Palatine of the Rhine, to be king of Bohemia. These, to the number of
fifty, were apprehended in one night, and at one hour, and brought from
the places where they were taken, to the castle of Prague, and the
estates of those who were absent from the kingdom were confiscated,
themselves were made outlaws, and their names fixed upon a gallows, as
marks of public ignominy.

The high court of reformers then proceeded to try the fifty, who had
been apprehended, and two apostate protestants were appointed to examine
them. These examinants asked a great number of unnecessary and
impertinent questions, which so exasperated one of the noblemen, who was
naturally of a warm temper, that he exclaimed opening his breast at the
same time, "Cut here, search my heart, you shall find nothing but the
love of religion and liberty; those were the motives for which I drew my
sword, and for those I am willing to suffer death."

As none of the prisoners would change their religion, or acknowledge
they had been in error, th