Philip’s best interrogators, led by his personal confessor, the Dominican friar William of Paris. They had been deprived of sleep, starved, shackled, isolated, and beaten. Some had been burned with fire or stretched with the strappado. They had been physically and psychologically broken down until they agreed they were guilty. And now, in long and tragic sequence, these frightened men were brought out and deposed before the academics. One by one they recited their confessions. Then they were taken back to their cells.
