230 ΙίΟΟΓ.Γ. OF WF.XDOA'F.U. [A.D . 1200. come before, and were fastened by three bars, ami when thus restored he was violently thrust back into bis own seat. Of a certain pleader. After the soldier, a man well-skilled in worldly law was dragged forth into the midst with great torture, which he had brought on himself by a long course of evil living, and by accepting presents for perverting judgment. This man was well known throughout the English territories amongst the higher ranks, but had closed his life miserably in the year in which this vision was seen; for, dying suddenly without executing any will, all the wealth that he; had amassed by his rapacious greediness, was entirely alienated from him, and spent by strangers to him. He had been accustomed to sit in the king's exchequer, where be had oftentimes received presents from both of the litigating parties. lie, too, being dragged forth to the sport, in the presence of the wicked spirits, was compelled by the insulting goblins to imitate the actions of his former life; for, turning himself at one time to the right, at another to the left, he was teaching one party in setting forth a cause, and another in replying to it ; and whilst doing this, he did not refrain from accepting presents, but received money at one time from one party, at another from the other, and after counting it, put it in his pockets. After the demons had for a length of time looked on at the gestures of the wretched man, the money suddenly becoming hot, burned the wretch in a pitiable manner, and be was forced to put in his mouth the pieces of money, burning as they were, and afterwards to swallow them : after swallowing them, two demons came to him with an iron cart-wheel, studded all round with spikes and nails, and, placing it on the back of the. sinner, they whirled it round, tearing away his whole back in its quick and burning revolutions; and compelled him to vomit forth the moneys which he. had swallowed with great agony, in still greater torture ; and after he had vomited them up, tilt! demon ordered him to collect them again, that IK; might in the same way again be fed with them ; afterwards, the servants of hell becoming enraged, exhausted on him till the tortures which have been mentioned above. The wife of this man was sitting in one of the fiery spiked seats, because