Joyful Going out of These People to Corporal Punishment

When this sentence had 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 you," says the Lord, "when men shall hate you, for my sake."

Then, according to the severity of the sentence, they were 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. After that their upper garments, down to the waist, were cut away from their bodies, and they were publicly scourged and cast out of the city. But it was a bitterly cold winter, and no one showed them the least mercy, so that they miserably perished from the intense cold, which they could not bear on their naked bodies. William Neubrig. Hist. Engl., book 2, chapter 13, 8th year of Henry the Second, King of England. [n407-1]