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| | German Society at the Close of The Middle Ages by E. Belfort Bax |
 | | Just as all was prepared for the projected stroke, the Bundschuh shared the common fate of similar movements, and was betrayed; and this in spite of the terrible threats that were held out to all joining, in the event of their turning traitors. |
 | | Those concerned had their property confiscated, their wives and children were driven from the country, and they themselves were in many, cases quartered alive; the more prominent men, by a refinement of cruelty, being dragged to the place of execution tied to a horse’s tail. |
 | | This Bundschuh, like the previous one in Untergrünbach, had its countersign, which, to the credit of all concerned, be it said, was never revealed, and is not known to this day. |
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