The peasants went off, without further deliberation and unarmed except for pikes and knives, to the house of a knight who lived nearby. They broke in and killed the knight with his lady and their children, big and small, and set fire to the house. Next they went to another castle and did much worse; They seized the knight and bound him securely to a post. Several of them raped his wife and daughter before his eyes. They then killed the wife who was pregnant, the daughter, and all the other children. The they killed the knight. They did similar things to other knights in other castles. Soon their numbers swelled to 6000. They killed ladies and girls without mercy, like mad dogs.
Jean Froissart, Chronicles after the translation of Geoffrey Brereton (Penguin 1968) p. 151