Arguing that unflinching severity is more efficient, and in the broader view less bloody, than misguided leniency, Churchyard recounts how Gilbert caused the severed heads of slain rebels to "bee laied on the ground, by eche side of the waie leadyng into his owne Tente: so that none could come into his Tente for any cause, but commonly he muste passe through a lane of heddes, whiche he vsed ad terrorem ...