On the orders of the Earl, both lovers were dragged, naked from the bed by the soldiers and taken down to the dungeons to be placed in separate quarters. Hot irons seared her flesh and the torturer’s blades sliced, one slice at a time, from her breasts. Xnx The poor lady was left in this distress until cock crow the next morning when she was taken down and, barely aware, carried into the basements of her inquisitors. No window was large enough to permit escape and the windows were set high in the walls. She must not be suffered to live and, were she to die, her lands would, of course, come to your Lordship’s royal estate.”
The Royal official took this little speech most seriously. Before her eyes, her lover was thrust onto a large cartwheel which lay on the floor and his limbs were bound
