[Footnote 22:  “The bailiff said that the magistrates had determined to search all the stables, cellars, and gardens, to discover whether the ground in any of these places had been recently dug.”—­E.  Van Meteren, History of the Low Countries.]

[Footnote 23:  “Simon Turchi was known to be a perverse and immoral man; in a word, he was a compound of every vice and every evil inclination.”—­Matteo Bandello.]

[Footnote 24:  “Go and do what I have commanded you.  Disinter the body, take it on your shoulders and cast it into the sewer which is in the square where the three streets meet.”—­Simon Turchi.—­Matteo Bandello.]

[Footnote 25:  “I will send Bernardo to help you, and I will order him to obey you, whatever you may command.  When you have thrown the body into the sewer, you can, by a quick movement, push Bernardo in also.  The sewer is deep, and whoever falls into it is immediately drowned.”—­Matteo Bandello.]

[Footnote 26:  “Simon Turchi begged Julio to take the crime upon himself.”—­Van Meteren, History of the Low Countries.]