# Joyful Going Out Of These People To Corporal Punishment, And Their Miserable Death.

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This sentence having been pronounced, they were
led out to punishment. They went with gladness
and in great haste, their leader, namely, Gerard,
going before them, singing: “Blessed are ye,” says
the Lord, “when men shall hate you, for my
sake.”

They were then, according to the rigor of the
sentence, branded on their foreheads, their leader
receiving a double brand, one on his forehead, the
other on his chin, as a sign that he was their leader.
Thereupon their upper garments, to the waist,
were cut from their bodies, and they were publicly
scourged, and cast out of the city. But it being
a bitter cold winter, and no one showing them the
least mercy, they miserably perished by the intense
cold, which they were unable to bear on their naked
bodies. William Neubrig. Hist. Engl., lib. 2,
cap. 13, 8th year of Henry II. King of England.



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