A.D. 1200.] OF A PRIEST AND SOLDIER. 229 around his neck ; the third bar, beginning at Ids middle, passed up his belly, and reached to the top of his head. After this wretch had been tortured for a length of time in the manner above described, ho was mercilessly thrust baek into his former seat, and when placed there, he was tormented in all parts by the burning nails, and by having his live lingers stretched : and after he had been thus taken from this place of punishment, ho was placed in the abode which he had made for himself wdien living, to await further tortures. Of a certain priest. A priest was next dragged forth with violence from his tiery seat to the sport, and placed before these inhuman goblins by the servants of sin, who forthwith, after cutting his throat in the middle, pulled out his tongue, and cut it off at the root. This priest had not, when he could, repaid the people entrusted to his care for their temporal goods which lie had taken from them, by holy exhortation, nor by an example of good works, and had not given them the support of prayers or of masses. Afterwards, as we have related of the proud man, they tore him limb from limb, and again restoring him entire, they placed him in a chair of torture. Of a certain soldier. After him was brought forward a certain soldier, who had spent his life in slaying harmless people, in tournaments, and robberies. He sat, accoutred with all his weapons of war, on a black horse, which, when urged on by the spur, breathed forth a pitchy flame, with stench and smoke, to the torture of its rider. The saddle of the horse was pierced all over with long fiery nails ; the armour and helmet, the shield and boots covered with flame, severely burdened the rider by their weight, and at the same time consumed him to the very marrow with no less torture. After he had, in imitation of his former custom in war, urged his horse to headlong speed, and shaken his spear against the devils who met him and derided him, he was by them dismounted and torn piecemeal, and his limbs were fried in the execrable liquid abovementioned ; and after having been fried, they were again joined together in the same way as with those who had ,