dragooning. 
wood ; for which he was cited before the archbishop of Bourdeau%, 
suspended from his functions, and even threatened with chains and 
perpetual imprisonment. It little availed him to cite the bishop of 
Meaux’s distinction ; it was answered, that the c/mrcA allowed it not. 
Dragooning. 
This w as one of the methods used by papists for converting refrac- 
tory heretics. The following account of the dragooning of the French 
Protestants after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, under LOuis 
XIV., is taken from a French piece translated in 1686 . The troopers, 
soldiers, and dragoons went into the Protestants" houses, where they 
marred and defaced their household stuff, broke their looking-glasses 
and other utensils and ornaments, let their wine run about their cellars, 
and threw about their corn and spoiled it. Those things which they 
could not destroy in this manner, such as the furniture of beds, linens, 
wearing apparel, plate, &c. they carried to the market-place, and sold 
them to the Jesuits and other Roman Catholics. By these means the 
Protestants, in Montauban alone, were in four or five days stripped 
of above a million of money. But this was not the worst. They 
turned the dining-rooms of gentlemen into stables for their horses, 
and treated the owners of the houses where they quartered with the 
highest indignity and cruelty, lashing them about from one to another 
day and night w ithout intermission, not suffering them to eat or drink ; 
and when they began to sink under the fatigue and pains they had 
undergone, they laid them on a bed, and, when they thought them 
somew’hat recovered, made them rise, and repeated the same tortures. 
When they saw the blood and sweat run down their faces and other 
parts of their bodies, they sluiced them with water, and, putting over 
their heads kettledrums turned upsieje down, they made a continual 
din upon them till these unhappy creatures lost their senses. 
When one part of these tormentors w'ere weary, they were relieved 
by another, who practised the same cruelties with fresh vigour. At' 
Negreplisse, a towm near Montauban, they hung up Isaac Faviri, a 
Protestant citizen of that place, by his arm-pits, and tormented him 
a whole night by pinching and tearing off his flesh with pincers. 
They made a great fire round a boy about twelve years old, who, 
with hands and eyes lifted up to heaven, cried out, ** My God, help 
me !” And when they found the youth resolved to die rather thau 
renounce his religion, they snatched him from the fire just as he was 
on the point of being burnt. In several places the soldiers applied 
red-hot irons to the hands and feet of men, and breasts of women. At 
Nantes they hung up several women and maids by their feet, and 
others by their arm-pits, and thus exposed them to public view stark 
naked. They bound to posts mothers that gave suck, and let their 
sucking infants lie languishing in their sight for several days and 
nights, crying, mourning, and gasping for life. Some they bound 
before a great fire, and, being half roasted, let them go: a punishment 
worse than death. 
Amidst a thousand hideous cries, and a thousand blasphemies, they 
hung up men and women by the hair, and some by the feet, on hooks 
