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A54403	Matchlesse crueltie declared at large in the ensuing history of the Waldenses apparently manifesting unto the world the horrible persecutions which they have suffered by the papists, for the space of four hundred and fifty years : wherein is related their original and beginning, their piety and purity in religion, both for doctrine and discipline : likewise hereunto is added an exact narrative of the late bloody and barbarous massacres, murders and other unheard of cruelties committed on many thousands of the Protestants dwelling in the valleys of Piedmont, &c. by the Duke of Savoy's forces, joyned with the French army and several bloody Irish regiments / published by command of His Highness the Lord Protector.; Histoire des Vaudois. English. 1655	Perrin, J. P. (Jean Paul); Stoppa, Giovanni Battista. Collection or narative sent to His Highness the Lord Protector ... concerning the bloody and barbarous massacres and other cruelties.	1655 (1655)	Wing P1592; ESTC R40064	291,424	521

armes he had recourse to his ordinary wiles and subtilties hoping to worke his ruine vnder a pretence of amitie He caused therefore the Legat Bonauenture to write vnto him that he had compassion on him for that he was so obstinate in so great a warre to his great charge and the losse of the bloud of his Subiects which if he would he might end in a short time by taking his iourny to Rome declaring his innocency to the Pope that he would giue him his best assistance as far forth as possibly he could to procure the restitution of all his Lands But yet it was very necessarie that the Church should haue some gages of his fidelitie that is that he should deliuer into his hands the Castle of Foix the one onely meanes to take away all shadow and shew of false play and that incontinently after his returne turne it should be restored vnto him with the rest of his houses He suffered himselfe to be cheated and gulled by these promises deliuered vnto him the Castle of Foix and tooke his iourney to Rome but if he went a foole thither a foole he returned For the Legat had written to Rome to the Conclaue and to the Pope that the Earle of Foix was one of the most dangerous Heretiques that was amongst the Albingenses a man of great courage and valiant and most to be feared that if he were subdued the Earle of Toulouze would be much weakned that he had gotten from him the meanes to doe any hurt by obtaining by faire words those places which the Church would neuer haue gotten by armes namely the Castle of Foix and that they were to take heed that they made no restitution of his lands which if they did it would bee impossible that the Church should euer bring the Albingenses to their vtter ruine The Pope was willing enough to ioyne in his ouerthrow but because hee came vnto him with submissions he feared least it might bee a meanes to hinder others from euer putting any confidence in the Pope He was prodigall of his Crosses his Bulls and his Words but in effect he commanded his Legat that he should not restore vnto him those places vntill hee had giuen good proofes of his obedience and iustification Presently vpon his returne hee addressed himselfe to the Legat to enioy the effect of his faire promises The Legat gaue him to vnderstand that his hands were bound by the Pope because there were some clauses in his Bulls that did binde him to a new proceeding and to know in good earnest what his innocency was but yet he should assure himselfe of his affection and that he should not attribute to him if he receiued not his full content and that he would doe his best endeuour to make loue and friendship betwixt the Earle Simon and himselfe The Earle of Foix by little and little with-drew himselfe fearing to be arrested walking about the fields and houses of his Subiects as for his owne they were all in the hands of the Earle Simon There he cursed his owne facilitie to suffer himselfe to be gulled by a Priest bites his singers for anger to see himselfe so blockishly abused after so many trickes and stratagems plaid against him The Earle of Toulouze and the King of Aragon resolue to make a leuy of their Subiects and presently to build a Fort at Montgranier a place very strong by nature In a few daies they made it a place of defence by the means labours of their poore subiects who bewailing their own miseries their Lords trauelled day night very willingly to bring the work to an end This place being built he put therin a garison left there his son Roger. The Earle Simon besieged it in the end took it by famine The cōposition was that Roger should not beare armes for one whole yeare against the Church An Article that troubled much this valiant Lord. For he withdrew himselfe for the same yeare into a house where he counted the moneths and the daies till the time was expired wherein he might either die valiantly in fight or vanquish his enemies And to this purpose he many times conferred with the sonne of the King of Aragon lately slaine how he might carrie himselfe to finde a meanes to be reuenged of his Fathers death The Legat Bonauenture in the meane time vseth the same subtletie with the Earle Remond of Toulouze He perswadeth him to goe to Rome to determine his affaires with the Pope more peaceably than with the Earle Simon The Monke of the Valley Sernay Chap. 133. especially because he was charged with the death of his owne Brother the Earle Baudoin taken in the Castle d'Olme in the Country of Cahors because he had there borne Armes against him an action that had made him odious both to God and men and which his enemies did exaggerate to the end they might stirre vp the Pilgrims to take vengeance on him saying That at the very point of death they had denied him a Confessor and that the said Bodoin prayed vnto God that he would raise vp some good Christians to reuenge the wrong done vnto him by his brother as by another Caine. The son of the Earle of Toulouze named also Remond vnderstanding that his Father was to take his iourney to Rome he went with letters from his Vncle the King of England to the Pope intreating him to doe iustice to his brother in Law The young Lord had beene brought vp vntill then in England where he could no longer spend time seeing his Father oppressed with warres and continuall trauels he therefore resolued to vse his best endeuours for his deliuerance either by composition or by armes The cause of the Earle Remond was debated before the Pope There was a Cardinall that maintained Idem Chap. 152. that great wrong had beene offered those Lords who had many times giuen of their best lands to the Church to witnesse their obedience The Abbot of St. Vberi also tooke their part with great courage and resolution The Earle Remond likewise defended his owne cause charging the Bishop of Toulouze with many outrages and that if hee had beene constrained to defend himselfe he must accuse those that had driuen him to that necessitie for had he not made resistance he had long agoe beene vtterly ouerthrowne That the Bishop of Toulouze had many times caught vnto him the fairest of his reuenewes and being neuer satisfied did still continue to vex him parting his goods with the Earle Simon of Montfort and that their onely auarice had beene the cause of the death of ten thousand men of Toulouze and of the pillage of that faire and great Citie a losse which could neuer be repaired The Charterie of Lion did also shew vnto the Pope that the Bishop of Toulouze had alwaies kindled the fire and warmed himselfe at the flame Arnaud de Villemur did also present himselfe before the Pope demanding Iustice for that the

death as VValdenses that is to say eleuen yeeres after the dispersion of the VValdenses of the Citty of Lion For Waldo departed out of Lion in the yeere one thousand one hundred sixty three Math. Paris in his History of England the said yeere and Mathew Paris reports that the Monkes Inquisitors caused some of the Waldenses to be burnt in England in the yeere 1174. And Iohn Bale makes mention of a certaine man that was burnt at London in the yeere 1210 that was charged with no other matter then that hee professed the Religion of the Waldenses Iohn Basle in the Chronicles of London Thomas Walden in his sixt volume of things sacramentall tit 12. chap. 10 Thomas Walden an English man hath writ that in the time of Henry the second the Waldenses were grieuously persecuted and that they were called Publicans And as for those in whom they found not cause enough to condemne vnto death they marked them in forhead with a burning key to the end they might be knowne of euery man This beliefe of the Waldenses was better known in the time of the wars against the Albingenses insomuch that as le Sieur de la Popeliniere hath well obserued the proximity of the lands and possessions of the Earle Remod of Tholouze La Popiliniere in his History of France l. 1. with Guienne then possessed by the English and the aliance of the King of England brother in law of the said Remond made the way more easie to the English not onely to succour one another in their wars but also to take knowledge of the beliefe of the said Albingenses which was no other but that of the Waldenses to the end that they might support them though the violence were vniust and extreame against those whom the English were many times constrained to defend against those who vnder the pretence of Religion inuaded his lands Frier Rainard Lollard was then the most powerfull instrument which God vsed by exhortations and sound reasons to giue knowledge to the English of the doctrine for which the VValdenses were deliuered to death This doctrine was receiued by Wicklif as it is noted in the Booke of the Beginning and confession of the Churches of Bohemia who thereby obtained much helpe for the increase of his knowledge in the truth He was a renowned Theologian in the Vniuersity of Oxford and parson of the parish of Luterworth in the Diocesse of Lincolne an eloquent man and profound Scholler He won the hearts of many English euen of most honorable of the land as the Duke of Lancaster vncle to King Richard Henry Percy Lewes Gifford and the Chancellor the Earle of Salisbury By the fauour of of these great personages the doctrine of the VValdenses or of Wicklif tooke footing and had free passage in England vntill Gregory the eleuenth persecuted those that receiued it with allowance by meanes of his Monkes the Inquisitors the fiers being kindled in England for many yeeres to stay the course thereof but it was all in vaine for it hath been maintained there maugre Antichrist vntill his yoke was wholly shaken off True it is that the bones of Wicklif were dis-interred aboue thirty yeeres after his death and condemned to be burnt with such bookes as his aduersaries could recouer but he had before enlightned so great a number that it was beyond the power of his enemies altogether to depriue the Church of them For by how much the more they indeauoured to hinder the reading and knowledge of them by horrible threats and death it selfe the more were the affections of many sharpned to reade them with greater ardency It is likewise said that a certaine Scholler hauing carried into Bohemia one of the books of the said Wicklif intituled His Vniuersals and deliuering it to Iohn Hus he gathered that knowledge from it that made him admirable in Bohemia and edified all those who together with him did very willingly free themselues from the seruile yoke of the Church of Rome Lib. de Origine Confes Eccl. Bohemiae Wiclefus à Waldensibus adiutus Hussium nostrum excitauit pa. 264. From hence it was said to the Husites that Wicklif had awakened their Iohn Hus. This Wicklif writ aboue a hundred volumes against Antichrist or the Church of Rome the Catalogue whereof is in the booke of the Images of famous men that haue combated with Antichrist CHAP. XIII Of the Waldenses that did flie into Flanders and were there persecuted AFter the great persecution of the Waldenses in the time of Phillip the faire S. Aldeg in his 1. Table of the diff fol. 149. Iohn Dubrauius in the Hstory of Bohemia lib. 14. Historigraphers make mention of their repaire into Flanders whether he pursued them and caused a great number to bee burnt And because they were constrained to retire themselues into the woods to flie from those that pursued them they were called Turlupins that is See before l. 1. c. 1. dwellers with wolues as you haue heard before in that Chapter where we haue shewed what names were giuen vnto them Mathew Paris saith that a certaine Iacobin Monke Math. Paris in the life of Henry 3. named Robert Bougre had liued amongst the Waldenses making profession of their Religion but hauing afterwards forsaken them became a Monke and a very violent persecuter in such sort that he caused many to be burnt in Flanders Now his owne friends hauing taken knowledge that he much abused the power and authority of his office laying to their charge many things whereof they were innocent and executing his authority against many that were altogether ignorant of the beliefe of the VValdenses he was not only depriued of the office of an Inquisitor but cast into prison and being conuicted of diuers crimes was condemned to perpetuall prison CHAP. XIV Of the VValdenses that were persecuted in Poland ABout the yeere of our Lord 1330 there were many that made profession of the Religion of the Waldenses in the Kingdom of Poland The Bishops had recourse to the meanes established by the Pope that is to say Flac. Illy in his Catol of the wit pa. 539. the Inquisition whereby they deliuer many of them into the hands of the executioner The Author of the Catalogue of the witnesses of the truth hath written that he hath lying by him the forme of the Inquisition which the Inquisitors made vse off in this persecution Vignier saith Vignier in his Biblio pa. 130. In his History lib. 1. that at their departure out of Picardy many of them that were persecuted there retired themselues into Poland Le Sieur de Popeliniere hath set downe in his History that the Religion of the Waldenses hath spred it selfe almost into all parts of Europe euen amongst the Polonians and Lutherans and that after the yeer one thousand one hundred they haue alwayes sowed their doctrine little differing from that of the moderne Protestants and maugre all the powers and Potentates that haue

of the Prefect of that Province who is a Romish Cathosike and had already slain another Priest in the same place A young man of the Reformed Religion having been accused to have been partaker with him therein hath been delivered by the said Reformed into the hands of Justice and of the Delegate of his Royall Highness who having deposed there that the said Secretary called Pagot had perswaded him to go along with him in that horrid execution promised to give him three hundred Pistolls but that he had refused to do it and took onely two to bind him not to say a word of it hath been released and declared not guilty After this considering the scruples of some yet the same man hath severall times presented himselfe to Madame Royall and the cheifest of her Ministers and the Reformed have still represented him upon all occasions to be examined and brought face to face before the parties but they still refused it holding him as sully justified and the other convicted Besides though among the Reformed there should have been found a Thiefe neither their Concessions nor their Laws do suffer the innocent to be punished for the guilty Such Assassinations were never commited by order of the Reformed and could have no advantage by the death of an inconsiderable Country Priest who could never do them neither good or evill Secondly Some say that at La Tour an Asse hath been dressed like a Monk It is a Diabolicall invention In a word it was thus The Youth of the place partly Papists partly Reformed to jeere and mock at a very Heteroc●iticall Marriage made a Charivary as they call it and tooke the asse or the Bridegroome whom they did set on the topp of the Oven in a publick place where it was seen of all all the day long and nothing therein touched the Monks nor the Masse nor the Host The Roman Catholikes in such occasions have often set up Asses upon the top of their Pinacles in those places Thirdly Therefore the published Order alledges no such reasons onely the Marquess● de Piannesa as appears in the answer he got M G●beline the Roman Catholike Atturney of the the Reformed at Turin to make said that his Royall Highues was willing to abase their pride for having craved the Protection of the Forraign Princes because the Lords of Zurick and Berne after the Order published against them though not required but out of their own inclinations had sent to his Royall Highnes some Letters in their behalf Let the Reader judge of the validity of this Reason This Fourth is most cryed up in Piedmout viz. That the Reformed have cruelly murthered the Catholiques in Ireland and have wholly expelled them and that they ought to murther the Reformed in Piedmont and clear the State of them to lodge the Irish in their place Let yet the Reader Judge of this reason Besides it is false the Reformed have murthered the Catholicks in Ireland but to the contrary Therefore it remains that there hath been no other true cause of this but the hatred they bear to the Religion it being known to all the world that no Subjects have ever been true or more obedient to their Prince than they who never stirred when all the rest of the State was up in Arms who still payd their Taxes though over burthened have borne extraordinary Winter Quarters afforded their men for the war as often as demanded and even some few days afore their desolation sent their Militias for the service of his Royall Highness upon the seceipt of his very first command I have hastily given you a Copy of this tract of the horrible furies of the Adversaries desiring you to see if his Highness the Serenissinie Lord Protector could take occasion to insert in the Treaty with France the re-establishment of our Brethren escaped from the Massacres which they have caused the Irish to do as in revenge of their being banished out of their Country for Massacring the Protestants there Your Brother hath assured us he will give us the Charity ordained by your Church A generall Collection in your Quarters will be necessary there being so many thousands despolld of all that are seeking for refuge There are two Ministers viz. Master Gross and Master Aghit Prisoners at Turin God strengthen and deliver them and conserve you and your Colleagues whom I salute remaining May 8. 1655. Most honoured Brother wholy yours A Letter written to his Highness the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. about the said Murthers Massacres and cruelties sent together with the said descriptions To his Highness My Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland ALthough his Highness the Lord Protector be well informed of whatsover comes to pass in most places of the world yet we have thought he would not be sorry to see as in a contracted picture the horrid crueltie pra●●sed by the Duke of Savoy's men upon the Faithfull in the Valleys of Piedmont That it to say upon such people that if any in the world did live in the greatest purity and the greatest innocency whose onely crime is that neither they nor their Fathers nor their Auncestors 500 years since would ever pollnte themselves with the Roman Superstitions and Idolatries The whole Christendome have their eyes fixed on his Highness and all good men hope that he will avenge or rather God will avenge by his hand such a hellish barbarousness If we should have a less knowledge of his Zeal and of his Heroicall courage we would tell him what once Mordecai said to the Queen Esther Esther c. 4. v. 14. If thou holdest thy peace at this time then shall their enlargement and deliverance arise from another place But thou and thy Father's house shall be destroyed And who knoweth whether thou art come to such a high dignity for such a time as this But as his Highness possesses lights altogether extraordinary he will of himself consider that God hath given him a great power to imploy it to his glory and that he hath put a victorious sword in his hand Rom. c. 13. v. 4. to be a revenger to execute wrath upon those that do evill So that as since the Creation of the World nothing hath been seen so dreadfull so nothing shall be punished in such an exemplary mander It is hoped that with him severall Protestant Princes will imbrace so just a cause But if there be any that be not sensibly moved by so deep and so sharp a wound and that having power yet be not willing to prosecute and pursue those Murtherers and those Incendiaries that saying will be applyed unto them of the Prophetess Deborah Curse ye Meroz Iudges c. 5 v. 23. curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord with the mighty In the mean while your Highness will spread through the whole earth the sweet savour of his name and as it hath been said The sword of the Lord and of Gideon so hereafter they will say the sword of the Lord and of OLIVER His praises will be celebrated to the world's end and they will say that the Protector of Great Brittain is become the Protector of all those that are persecuted for righteousness sake All those that do sincerely love God and that are sick because of the bruise of Joseph will heartily pray unto God that he might be pleased to prolong the days of his Highness to settle his Government and to pour upon his posterity his most holy and most precious blessings Let his Highness be assured that this draught hath been made by a faithfull hand and let him have the goodness not to enquire who he is that sends it It is not so much the voice of men or the blood of the Martyrs as the voice of God himself who crys for vengeance for the injury done to his great name and who commands him to work the deliverance of those that are Prisoners for the Lord Jesus and to restore to their Native Country the poor banished men who like the faithfull of old are mandring in the wildernesses in the Dens in the Mountains and in the clefts of the earth That they might sing as those that returned from the Babylonian Captivity Psal 126. v. 1.2 When the Lord turned again the Captivity of Zion we were like them that dream Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing c. 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