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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30351	The history of the persecution of the valleys of Piedmont containing an account of what hath passed in the dissipation of the churches and the inhabitants of the valleys, which happened in the year 1686.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5796; ESTC R4741	43,851	53

them they ravished them and at length shot them to death and hack'd them in pieces Four Women falling at the same time into the hands of these Barbarians had the same fortune with this difference only that before they were ravished and massacred they saw their Childrens Throats cut at a place called the Fountains They cut open the Body of a Mother and her Child and tore out their Entrails which they burned in the Fire They killed a great number of Children in the same place because they were sick and had not strength to follow them into the Prisons where they would have carried them Twenty two Persons who were for a long time hid in the Woods the greatest part of whom were Women and Children were found by these Murtherers on the Mountain of Pelue and flung down headlong into dreadful Abysses cross the points of the Rocks where the Entrails of these Martyrs were seen a great while after In the Valley of Lucerne Susanna the Wife of Daniel Violin Katharine the Wife of Iames Negrin and Anne Melanote and her Daughter had their Throats cut with a Baionet Some Soldiers having used their utmost endeavours to flea Daniel Pellene alive and not being able to pull the Skin over his Shoulders laid him along upon the ground put a great Stone upon his Belly and caused him to expire in this condition Daniel Blumerol lost his life by the means of a Cord that they tied violently about his Head his Belly and his Privy Members Anne and Magdalen Vittorie and several others were burnt The Wife of Daniel Monin was massacred with a Back-Sword and had her Head chopt in pieces Anne Bastianne was tumbled down the Precipices David Moudon had his Head cleft asunder with a broad Sword. Margaret Salvajote being stript stark naked was run through with a Dagger in several parts of her Body but she did not suffer only this cruel Death in her own person for before they cut her Throat these Russians mortified her little Daughter about seven months old before her face and dashed her Head against the Rock till all her Brains flew out They cut Mary Salvajot in pieces with a Scimeter They pierced Mary Duraud through with a Dagger because she resisted their design to ravish her They cut the Throat of the Mother of the Sieur Bertrand a Minister a Person that was 80 years old and lay Bed-rid through extreme old Age. A certain Maiden of Boby was tyed stark naked cross a Mule with her Privy-parts exposed to publick view and was led about in this condition through the City of Lucerne Amongst a great number of Waldenses whom they hanged at Boby there was one called Anthony Malanot whom the Soldiers shot at several times after he was dead taking for their Mark those parts of his Body that modesty forbids to name The Soldiers having found a Woman named Iaimonate in a hole in a Rock on the Mountain of Carbonnieres brought her to the Marquess de Bevil Colonel of the Regiment of Savoy who demanded of her how long she had been in that Cavern and what Food she got there she made Answer that she had been there eight days and that she nourished her self with a little Milk of a Shee-Goat that shee took along with her They would force her at length to discover where the Waldenses were that hid themselves in the Rocks but she protesting that she knew nothing of them the Soldiers having put her to a sort of Torture by fastening their Matches to her fingers to make her speak tied her Feet to her Head backwards and in this posture hurled her down a Precipice but as she was stopped in falling the Soldiers flinging Stones and Brick-bats at her caused her Bowels to drop out of her Belly and thrust her down headlong in the presence of the Marquess de Bevil A young Lad of the Valleys by name David Magnot whom the said Marquess took for his Domestick Servant and who had afterwards made his escape was an Eye-witness of and related this horrible Action Daniel Moudon an Elder of the Church of Roras after he had been spectator of the Death of his two Sons Iohn and Iames Moudon whose Heads the Soldiers cut off having seen Iohn's Wife cleaved asunder from her Breast to the bottom of her Belly her Child also knock'd on the Head that was but six weeks old and Iames's two Children cut in pieces one whereof was four years old and the other but fourteen months was constrained by these Butchers to carry the Heads of his two Sons on his shoulders and to travel thus bare-foot two hours till they came to Lucerne where he was hanged in the middle of these Heads that were stuck upon the Gibbet I shall pass over an infinite number of examples of Barbarity of the like nature not to mention the miserable Death of so many old Men Women young Infants and sick persons that died with cold and hunger in the Woods or in the clefts of the Rocks Not to mention an incredible number of Prisoners that were hanged without form of Justice on the branches of Trees or in the Towns and Villages among whom there was one Paul Megle aged 27 years whom they carried from his Bed to the Gallows At present I shall content my self with what I have already related which may be sufficient to shew how far the fury of the Enemies of the Waldenses proceeded I shall only add here the Death of the Sieur Leidet that equally deserves pity and admiration He was Minister of Pr●be in the Valley of S. Martin who had escaped at the subduing of the Valleys and had hid himself for some time within the Caverns of the Rocks He was taken by a Detachment of Soldiers and carried to Lucerne into the Palace of the Marquess of Angrogne where the Duke of Savoy was at that time He was put in prison within a Tower of this Palace and fetter'd with a kind of Stocks that were made with two thick pieces of Timber between which they lock'd his Legs He remained a great while in this condition fed with Bread and Water not being able to lie down by reason of the weight of those Shackles it was reported that he had taken up Arms but it was a false Accusation from which he was cleared even by the Testimony of those that apprehended him They let him lie several months in Prison without bringing him to his Tryal and some Judges themselves desired to be excused from being concern'd in his Process In the mean time there was not a day passed wherein he was not exposed to the Persecutions of the Monks and Priests and had great Disputes with them about matters of Religion wherein he came off always victorious They caused one day two Bibles to be brought wherein he demonstrated to them so clearly the truth of his Belief that being ashamed and put to confusion they retired after a Conference of four hours They often threatened him with Death