CHAPTER XIII.

THE GREAT MASSACRE.

Preliminary Attacks--The Propaganda de Fide--Marchioness de Pianeza--Gastaldo’s Order--Its Barbarous Execution-- Greater Sorrows--Perfidy of Pianeza--The Massacring Army--Its Attack and Repulse--Treachery--The Massacre Begins--Its Horrors--Modes of Torture--Individual Martyrs-- Leger collects Evidence on the Spot--He Appeals to the Protestant States--Interposition of Cromwell--Mission of Sir Samuel Morland--A Martyr’s Monument 132