They ran into every house cursing and damning, threatening and terrifying the poor women most terribly, setting naked swords and pistols to their breasts. They fell to plundering all the town, picking purses and pockets, searching in holes and corners and every other place they could suspect for money or goods... They beastly assaulted many women... and bragged about it afterwards, how many they had ravished... The next day in every street they kindled fire with gunpowder, matches, wisps of straw and burning coals.'