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A09486	Luthers fore-runners: or, A cloud of witnesses, deposing for the Protestant faith Gathered together in the historie of the Waldenses: who for diuers hundred yeares before Luther successiuely opposed popery, professed the truth of the Gospell, and sealed it with their bloud ... Diuided into three parts. The first concernes their originall beginning ... The second containes the historie of the Waldenses called Albingenses. The third concerneth the doctrine and discipline which hath bene common amongst them, and the confutation of the doctrine of their aduersaries. All which hath bene faithfully collected out of the authors named in the page following the preface, by I.P.P. L. Translated out of French by Samson Lennard.; Histoire des Vaudois. English	Perrin, J. P. (Jean Paul); Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1624 (1624)	STC 19769; ESTC S114487	267,031	522

Driuing them out of the field of the Lord taking from them their lands and liuings in which the Heretikes being banished let Catholike inhabitants be substituted in their roome The Pope writ to all Christian Princes to frame themselues for the obtaining of that pardon against the Albingenses that they obtained if they passed beyond the Seas against the Turkes and particularly the author of the Treasure of Histories saith That the Pope intreated King Philip and diuers Barons that they would vndertake with him that enterprise against the Heretikes and get their pardons And that the King answered that hee was to bee excused by reason of his warres with the Emperour Otho and King Iohn of England Of the Barons saith hee there were many that yeelded to the enterprise for their pardon The Earle Remond being aduertised what was plotted against him in Europe at the instance of the Pope sent vnto him humbly beseeching him not to condemne him before he had heard him speake assuring him that he was no way culpable of the death of Frier Peter de Casteauneuf and that it was sufficiently verified that the murderer was fled to Beaucaire hee complained of the malice of his enemies who had made false informations against him touching the said murder But all was in vaine for before his excuses came to Rome the troopes of the Croises that is those that beare the badge of the Crosse vpon their coat-armour were come to powre downe their vengeance vpon him and his lands that is to say the Duke of Burgundy Earle of Enneuers the Earle of St. Paul the Earle of Auxerre the Earle of Geneua the Earle of Poitiers the Earle of Forests and the Earle Simon of Montfort The Lord of Bar Ginchard of Beauieu and Ganchier of Ioigui As also the Ecclesiasticall persons who had leuied in their Diocese a number of Pilgrims and wandering people they were the Archbishop of Seus the Archbishop of Rouan the Bishop of Clermond the Bishop of Enneuers the Bishop of Lizieux the Bishop of Bayeux and the Bishop of Chartres with diuers others Pelerins euery Bishop with the Pilgrims of his iurisdiction to whom the Pope promised Paradice in Heauen but gaue them not one peny vpon earth onely hee did let them know that in such a warre there were more blowes than pardons This Leuy of Pilgrims or wandering persons 1209. was in the yeere 1209. There was now a necessitie either of opposing violence against violence or to come to submissions The latter was thought the more easie but yet dangerous For to yeeld himselfe to the discretion of his enemies was to bring himselfe into the danger of his owne ruine The Count Remond therefore came to Valence before the Popes Legat named Milo Being entred the toile he began to excuse himselfe saying That it seemed strange vnto him that so great a number of men should come in armes against him that vsed no other armes to defend himselfe than his owne innocencie that hee was much wronged by those that perswaded the people that hee was guiltie of the death of the Monke Frier Peter of Casteauneuf that before they had thus moued Heauen and Earth as it were they should haue enquired of the truth of the fact and nor condemne any before he were heard That he had there many witnesses of the death of the said Monke slaine at St. Giles by a certaine Gentleman whom the said Monke pursued who presently retired himselfe to his friends at Beaucaire That this murder was very displeasing vnto him and therefore he had done what lay in his power to apprehend him and to chastise him but that hee escaped his hands That had it beene true which they laid to his charge that hee had embrewed his hands in that bloud yet the ordinary courses of iustice were to be taken against him and not to haue wrecked their anger vpon his subiects that were innocent in this case And therefore saith he to the said Legat forasmuch as vpon an assured trust and confidence armed onely with the testimonie of a good Conscience I am come to yeeld my selfe vnto your hands what need is there any more of the imployment of these Pilgrims or wandering people against him whom they had in their owne power That it was promised him that when his honestie should bee knowne they that were in armes to fight against him would defend him And therefore he humbly intreated the said Legat to send a Countermand to his Souldiers before they approched any further into his lands and territories promising to iustifie himselfe of whatsoeuer was laid to his charge in such a manner that the Pope and the Church should rest contented That his owne person might serue for a sufficient pledge for the performance of these his promises The Legat answered that the Earle Remond had done well in presenting himselfe before him and informing him of his innocencie whereof he would aduertise his Holinesse and become an Intercessor for him but yet the businesse was of such an importance that he durst not rely onely vpon his owne knowledge much lesse send backe his Souldiers of the Crosse that had cost so much labour and lost the gathering together except hee would giue such assurances of his words as might take away from the Pope and the Church all shew or shadow that hee may hereafter deale falsely with them that put their trust in him And therefore hee should not thinke it a difficult matter to deliuer into his hands seuen of the best Castles he had in Prouence that is to say in the Count Venessin which was then annexed vnto Prouence which should serue for an Hostage The Earle Remond knew well the error he had committed by putting himselfe vnder the batches but it was too late to bee readuised because the counsels which the Legat gaue him were as commands Hee knew himselfe to be a prisoner and that hee must now receiue the Law of him into whose power he had vnwisely cast himselfe and therefore he made a shew of great willingnesse to obey to whatsoeuer was prescribed by the Legat acknowledging that both his person and his processions were at the seruice of his holy Father onely beseeching the Legat that his subiects might receiue no more damage by the Souldiers The Legat promised all the fauour that hee desired in this regard and presently sent to the Countie Venessin Master Theod Canon of Gennes The Monke of the Valley Seruay in his History of the Albin cap. 11. fol. 23. to put a Garison into the Castles and places of importance in the said Countie and to giue commandement to all the Consuls of the Cities thereof to make their repaire presently to the said Legat before whom being come they were giuen to vnderstand that the Earle Remond had deliuered vp his Castles to the guard and power of the Pope for proofe of his fidelitie to the Church whereof they were to be aduertised to the end likewise that they from thence

things sacramētall Tit. 12. Chap. 10. Le Sieur de la Popeliniere in his hihorie of France l. 1. Claud. Rubis saith that the heresies that haue bene in our times haue bene grounded vpon the heresies of the Waldenses and he cals them the reliques of Waldo Aeneas Syluius who was afterwards Pope Pius the second of that name And Iohn Dubrauius Bishop of Olmusse in their histories of Bohemia make the doctrine taught by Caluin all one with that of the Waldenses Thomas Walden who writ against the doctrine of Wickliffe saith that the doctrine of Waldo crept out of the quarters of France into England Whereunto agrees le Sieur de la Popeliniere who addeth that the doctrine of the moderne Protestants differs very little from that of the Waldenses which saith he being receiued into the parts of Albi the Albigeois communicated it vnto the English their neighbours who then held Guienne from whence it was dispersed into many parts of England and so at the last as it were from hand to hand it came to the vnderstanding of Wickliffe a famous professour of diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Oxford and Pastor of the parish of Luterworth in the Diocesse of Lincolne who for his eloquence and rare gifts wonne the hearts of many of the English euen of the greatest men amongst them insomuch that a certaine scholler carried vnto Prage a booke of Wickliffes called the Vniuersalities which being diligently read ouer by Iohn Hus he increased and explaned the doctrine long before sowed in Bohemia by the Waldenses and was in a manner hid from the time of Waldo in such sort that many of the people schollers Nobles and Ecclesiasticall persons themselues followed the same doctrine The Cardinall Bellarmine saith Bellar. Tom. 2. lib. 1. Chap. 26. col 86. Ecchius in his common places Chap. 28. that Wickliffe could adde nothing to the heresie of the Waldenses Ecchius layes an imputation vpon Luther that he hath done nothing else but renew the heresies of the Waldenses Albig Wickliffe and Iohn Hus long since condemned Alphonsus de Castro saith Alphonsus lib. 6. against heresies pa. 99. that Wickliffe hath done nothing else but brought to light the errours of the Waldenses Arnold Sorbin priest of Monteig reprocheth the cities and townes of Saint Antonin Montauban Millan In the historie Frier Peter of the valleys Sernay fol. 172. Castres Puylorens Gaillac and others of the Albigei and Languedoc that they haue done nothing but reuiue the errours of the Albigeois Iohn de Cardonne in his Rimes in the forefront of the historie of the said Monke of the valley Sernay saith thus In the historie of the Monke of the valleys Sernay What the sect of Geneua doth admit Th'hereticke Albigeois doth commit Anthony d'Ardene of Tholouse in the same booke saith Ibid. Wherewith our Hugonites seasoned were The same intention the selfesame care We need not therefore dispute any longer of the antiquitie of this doctrine but onely of the puritie thereof since that not onely by the affirmation of those that were aduersaries to the Waldenses and the last reformation there are whole ages during the which the substance of that beleefe hath remained in diuers persons who crying out against the abuses which haue crept into the Church haue bene oppressed by persecutions And for as much as it is denied that we haue had a succession of such instruments who haue opposed themselues from time to time against those corruptions and errours which haue borne sway we will produce in the Chapter following a catalogue both of those which our aduersaries haue named and put to death and of those whom the Waldenses haue had for their Pastors for these foure hundred and fiftie yeares last past at leastwise of as many as haue come to our knowledge CHAP. IX The names of those Pastours of the Waldenses who haue instructed them for foure hundred yeares last past and haue come to our knowledge WAldo from whom the Waldenses tooke their name began to teach the people in the yeare of our Lord a thousand one hundred and sixtie In his first table of Differ pa. 150. Le Sieur de Sancte Aldegonde obserueth that at the same time that Waldo began to shew himselfe and to teach at Lions God raised others in Prouence and Languedoc among whom the principall were Arnold Esperon and Ioseph of whom they were named Arnoldists Iosephists Esperonists though because their doctrine was first receiued in Albi in the countrie of the Albigeois they were commonly called Albigeois in such manner that on the one side the Waldenses and on the other the Albigeois were as the two Oliues or the two lampes which Saint Iohn speaketh of whose light did spread it selfe through all the corners of the earth At the same time saith he followed Peter Bruis whereupon many called them Peter Brusiens To whom there succeeded in doctrine one Henry the one being a Priest the other a Monke and they taught in the Bishoprickes of Arles Ambrun Die and Gap from whence being chased away they were receiued at Tholouse There was a certaine man saith he called Barthelmew borne at Carcassonne Idem ibid. p. 151 that ordered and gouerned the Churches in Bulgaria Croatia Dalmatia Hungaria and appointed Ministers as Mathew Paris reports naming him their Pope or Bishop and alledging to that purpose the letter which the Bishop of Portuense Legate to the Pope in the parts thereabouts writ to the Archbishop of Roan and his suffragans demanding succours and assistance against them insomuch that they were at the last constrained to retire themselues into desarts following that prophesie in the 12 of the Reuelation which saith that the woman great with child that brought forth a man child which is the true Church of God should in such sort be persecuted by the Dragon which cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood so that she was constrained to flie into the wildernesse where she should be nourished for a time and times and halfe a time or for the space of forty two moneths or a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes Rainerius makes mention of two famous Bishops of the Waldenses viz of one Belazinanza of Verona one Iohn de Lugio who taught amongst them after the abouenamed about the yeare a thousand two hundred fifty Arnold Hot pastor amongst the Waldenses maintained the disputation at Mont Real whereof we shall make mention in his due place Lollard was also in great reputation amongst them both for a Commentary which he had written vpon the Reuelation as also for that he had giuen knowledge of their doctrine in England of whose name the Waldenses were called Lollards The Waldenses of the valleys of Angrongne of Dauphiney Prouence and Calabria haue had for their Pastors these whose memories they haue preserued for aboue three hundred yeares past that is to say

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 Legat and the Earle Simon had inuaded his lands he knew not wherefore since he had neuer bin but obedient to the Church of Rome relating at large the euils murders saccages robberies burnings which the said Legat and Earle vnder the cloake of the seruice of the Pope and the Church had done and therefore it was necessarie that that maske should be taken away which would otherwise turne to the dishonour of the Pope and the Church and some speedy course should be taken for the establishing of peace and procuring the good of the Church Remond of Roquefeuil of the Country of Querci Chass lib. 4. Ibid. related also many villanies committed by the said Earle of Montfort beginning with that which had beene done against the Earle of Beziers whom he caused miserably to die in prison inuaded his Lands and ruinated his Subiects and so proceeded to all that had passed against the other Lords who were constrained to defend themselues against his violences The Pope was much moued with these outrages and would willingly haue done some iustice but that it was told him that if hee should cause the Earle of Montfort to make restitution of that which was taken for the seruice of the Church that he should not from hence-forward finde any that would fight either for the Pope or the Church As also that if hee should determine the restitution yet the Earle Simon had reason not to giue ouer his hold vntill hee were fully satisfied for his trauels and expences The Pope returned these affaires to the Legat commanding him in generall termes to restore the Lands to all those that shewed themselues faithfull to the Church and as touching the sonne of the Earle Remond The Monke of the Valleis Sernay Chap. 152. his pleasure was that that Land that the Earle Remond had in Prouence that is to say The Earldome of Venisse should be reserued either in part or all for the maintenance of his sonne prouided that he gaue good and assured testimonies of his loyaltie and good conuersation shewing himselfe worthy of diuine mercy They being returned demanded of the Legat the execution of their Bulls requiring the restitution of their Lands The Legat answered that he had certaine restraints for the determining whereof there needed some time that therefore they should in the meane time shew fruits worthy their amendment and that then they should receiue what the Pope had decreed otherwise not When the Earles saw how they were deluded they resolued to come to blowes CHAP. II. Remond the sonne of the Earle Remond tooke Beaucaire The Bishop of Tholouze betrayeth the Citizens of Thoulouze The Earle Simon vseth the Inhabitants of Tholouze very ill They defend themselues to his confusion A new expedition Remond taketh Thoulouze Simon of Montfort comes thither and after many combats he is in the end slaine with a stone cast by a woman His armie is put to flight THe first exploit of warre of Remond the the sonne of the Earle Remond was the taking of Beaucaire where hee made himselfe Master of the Citie afterwards hauing almost famished those in the Castle the Earle Simon being no way able to succour them made a composition for those that were within it that is that they should depart onely carrying with them their baggage and necessary furniture The Earle Simon lost at that place a hundred Gentlemen which he laid in ambush neere the Citie which they within perceiuing made a salley forth and cut them in peeces The young Earle Remond wonne great renowne at this siege and gaue the Earle Simon to vnderstand that his sonne Aimeri should haue in this young Lord a thorne in his foot that should make him smart as much as in his time he had giuen cause of trouble and vexation to his father The Earle Montfort went from hence to rauage and make spoile at Thoulouze The Bishop was gone thither before and told the Consuls and Principall of the Citie that they were to make their appearance before the Earle Simon They went vnto him but to their great losse for they