, nose, ears, and mouth. Fastening burning matches to the
fingers, toes, ears, arms, legs, and even tongue. Putting powder in the
mouth and setting fire to it, by which the head was shattered to pieces.
Tying bags of powder to all parts of the body, by which the person was
blown up. Drawing cords backwards and forwards through the fleshy parts.
Making incisions with bodkins and knives in the skin. Running wires
through the nose, ears, lips, &c. Hanging protestants up by the legs,
with their heads over a fire, by which they were smoked dried. Hanging
up by one arm till it was dislocated. Hanging upon hooks by the ribs.
Forcing people to drink till they burst. Baking many in hot ovens.
Fixing weights to the feet, and drawing up several with pulleys.
Hanging, stifling, roasting, stabbing, frying, racking, ravishing,
ripping open, breaking the bones, rasping off the flesh, tearing with
wild horses, drowning, strangling, burning, broiling, crucifying,
immuring, poisoning, cutting off tongues, nose, ears, &c. sawing off the
limbs, hacking to pieces, and drawing by the heels through the streets.

The enormous cruelties will be a perpetual stain on the memory of count
Tilly, who not only permitted, but even commanded the troops to put them
in practice. Wherever he came, the most horrid barbarities, and cruel
depredations ensued: famine and conflagration marked his progress: for
he destroyed all the provisions he could not take with him, and burnt
all the towns before he left them; so that the full result of his
conquests were murder, poverty, and desolation.

An aged and pious divine they stripped naked, tied him on his back upon
a table, and fastened a large fierce cat upon his belly. They then
pricked and tormented the cat in such a manner, that the creature with
rage tore his belly open, and knawed his bowels.

Another minister, and his family, were seized by these inhuman monsters;
when they ravished his wife and daughter before his face; stuck his
infant son upon the point of a lance, and then surrounding him with his
whole library of books, they set fire to them, and he was consumed in
the midst of the flames.

In Hesse-Cassel some of the troops entered an hospital, in which were
principally mad women, when stripping all the poor wretches naked, they
made them run about the streets for their diversion, and then put them
all to death.

In Pomerania, some of the imperial troops entering a small town, seized
upon all th