their companie to consent to haue their throts cut one at an others
hands, [Sidenote: Fiue hundred saith _Houeden_ and _Textor_] he himselfe
cutting his wiues throt first, whose name was Anna, then his childrens,
one after another, and last of all slue himselfe onelie rather than he
would fall into the hands of the christians, that had thus long besieged
them. The rest perceiuing what their great Rabbi had doone, set fire
vpon all their goods and substance, which they had gotten into the tower
with them, and so consuming the same, would haue burnt also the residue
of their fellowes which would not agrée to the Rabbies counsell, in the
cruell murthering of themselues, if they had not taken a strong turret
hard by within that tower, and defended themselues both from the fire
and crueltie of their brethren, who had made awaie themselues in such
manner as I haue said: and that to the number of foure hundred, or (as
some write) fiue hundred at the least.

On the morow, those that were saued, called out to the people, and not
onelie shewed how and after what sort their fellowes were dispatched,
but also offered to be baptised, and forsake their Judaisme, if they
might haue their liues saued from the imminent & present danger wherein
they saw themselues to be wrapped, through the furie of the people. To
be short, this thing was granted, and they came foorth, howbeit they
were no sooner entred into the prease, but they were all slaine, and not
one man of them preserued.

After this also, the people ran to the cathedrall church, and broke into
those places where their bonds and obligations laie, by the which they
had diuerse of the kings subiects bound vnto them in most vnconscionable
sort, and for such detestable vsurie as (if the authors that write
thereof were not of credit) would hardlie be beleeued. All which
euidences or bonds they solemnelie burned in the middest of the church.