all offered honours, and rejecting the canopy beneath
which he was to make his entry, not even stopping to give audience to the
chief citizens or to receive the acclamations of the crowd. Armed at all
points, he made for Castel Nuovo, leaving behind him dismay and fear.
His first act on entering the city was to order Dona Cancha to be burnt,
her punishment having been deferred by reason of her pregnancy. Like the
others, she was drawn on a cart to the square of St. Eligius, and there
consigned to the flames. The young creature, whose suffering had not
impaired her beauty, was dressed as for a festival, and laughing like a
mad thing up to the last moment, mocked at her executioners and threw
kisses to the crowd.

A few days later, Godfrey of Marsana, Count of Squillace and grand
admiral of the kingdom, was arrested by the king's orders. His life was
promised him on condition of his delivering up Conrad of Catanzaro, one
of his relatives, accused of conspiring against Andre. The grand admiral
committed this act of shameless treachery, and did not shrink from
sending his own son to persuade Conrad to come to the town. The poor
wretch was given over to the king, and tortured alive on a wheel made
with sharp knives. The sight of these barbarities, far from calming the
king's rage, seemed to inflame it the more. Every day there were new
accusations and new sentences. The prisons were crowded: Louis's
punishments were redoubled in severity. A fear arose that the town, and
indeed the whole kingdom, were to be treated as having taken part in
Andre's death. Murmurs arose against this barbarous rule, and all men's
thoughts turned towards their fugitive queen. The Neapolitan barons had
taken the oath of fidelity with no willing hearts; and when it came to
the turn of the Counts of San Severino, they feared a trick of some kind,
and refused to appear all together before the Hungarian, but took refuge
in the town of Salerno, and sent Archbishop Roger, their brother, to make
sure of the king's intentions beforehand. Louis received him
magnificently, and appointed him privy councillor and grand proto notary.
Then, and not till then, did Robert of San Severino and Roger, Count of
Chiaramonte, venture into the king's presence; after doing homage, they
retired to their homes. The other barons followed their example of
caution, and hiding their discontent under a show of respect, awaited a
favourable moment for shaking off the