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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04810	The Christians calamities: or, The Protestants complaint, collected out of many severall letters that were sent from beyond the seas into England, and presented to His Highness the Lord Protector, of England, Scotland and Ireland ... / Faithfully collected, drawn up, and written by Laurence Price. 1655.	L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680?	1655 (1655)	Wing P3355B; ESTC R227727	5,290	36

THE Christians Calamities OR The Protestants Complaint Collected out of many severall Letters that were sent from beyond the Seas into England and presented to his Highness the Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland The very truth of the matter is plainly set down in this little Book to the end that whosoever either reads or hears it may take good notice of what is here set down And withall to pray unto the Lord that the like miseries may never befall us here in England Faithfully collected drawn up and written By Laurence Price 1655. From famine blodshed plagues and sudden death Good Lord deliver us whilst we are on earth London printed for Thomas Vere at the Angell without Newgate 1655 AN INTRODUCTION or Epistle to the Reader BEloved Friends Countrymen the reason why I drew up the copy of this little Book is because the world should know the truth of the mater how crueIly how barbarously our Christian brethren are dealt withall beyond the Seas by their blood-thirsty enemies It is a picture not drawn to the life but of the death of many thousands of true and Faithfull hearted Protestants and so hoping that example of them may be a meanes to make us turn from our wicked wayes and seeke the Lord whilst he may be found in mercy I remain your loving Friend and well-wisher L. P. A briefe Description of the Bloody Usage and cruel Persecutions done upon Protestants in the vallies of Piedmont and other places as you shall hear immediatly IN the famous and fruitful Countrey which is called The Vallies of Piedmont and Lucern under the command of the Duke of Savoy there lately inhabited a people called Waldenses famous for their constant profession of the Protestant Religion in all ages for about 500 yeares together to whom the blood-thirsty Papists have always born a most venemous spight and have often consulted amongst themselves how to get these Protestants quite rooted out and so to make themselves masters of all that they enjoyed In the pursuance whereof about the later end of January last the Duke of Savoy by the perswasion of the Romish Priests and Iesuits put forth a Proclamation that in case all of the reformed Religion both inhabitants and strangers should not in thrée dayes turn Papists they must for ever bid farewell to their native countrey houses lands and possessions and that it should be death without mercy for any to disobey the same Hereupon no sooner was the time limited overpast but immediatly Priest and Monks sent in upon them a world of cut-throats and villains who in the depth of Winter not sparing even women with child néer delivery nor those that had Infants hanging on their breast they were all without distinction both men women and children driven out to wander through frost and snow in a most bitter season to séeke for shelter in hollow caves and rocks and other desolate places The like cruelties have never béen acted since the worlds creation for why The Papists having gotten the upper hand of the Protestants they stole and tooke away their horses and cattell from off their ground they fired and burned the Rickes and Barnes of Corn they ravished and deflowred both Women and Virgins in such a most horrible and beastly manner which may be a shame to be spoken of and yet that was not the worst for when the distressed Protestants had béen by their Papisticall enemies at first so falfly and beastly betrayed and afterwards so terribly assaulted as many of them that could make any shift at all to escape away fled into the mountains with their wives and children but by the way were met withall by a great party of Irish Souldiers which were under the Dukes command who fell upon them with such violence that they murdred all both men women and children insomuch that they left not one of them alive that they could take or lay hands on saying that they would be revenged on them for the Romish Catholick blood that was spilt by the Protestants in Ireland Yet here followeth more sad and sorrowfull news which is worse then that which hath béen already spoken of the people which did yet remain in the vallies that had no time to shift for themselves ran some of them into Créeks and corners and hide themselves in caves and hollow places where many of them died miserable deaths for want of Food to sustain their hunger and them that remained in Towns and Cities were so cruelly murdered that the very Chanels in the stréets were filld with blood foure hundred men at one time were burned to death in a Church fiftéen hundred of women and small children on that same day slain at a Fort called Milbour the women had their throats cut and their childrens brains were dasht against the rocks and afterwards their Carkasses burnt to powder At the Towne of Bricherus all the men put to the sword and sixtéen great bellied women had their infants ript out of their wombs in a great Forrest that was very neare unto that place were two hundred men that fled for their lives overtaken and afterwards nayl'd to the trées alive some of them with their héels upward and their heads downwards towards she ground At the Citie of Turin was the Protestants Temple set on fire and burned to the very ground by Friers and Romish Priests The Ministers belonging to the same Mr. Gros and Mr Aghit with all the chiefest Gentlemen officers were carried to prison stifled to death in their beds Four Elders amongst which Paul de Rossan a man that was of very great note and estéeme with many others more hanged at la Tour. Some had their bowels pull'd out of their Bellies and thrown about the stréets for Dogges to gnaw upon The houses of Angrogue in which were thrée thousand Protestants got in for shelter was fired and never a man came out alive the Souldiers and Romish Priests Fryers and Iesuits in companies running up and downe from one house to another and never left off murdering whilst the day gave light Some Children by the Souldiers torn limb from limb and thrown at out anothers heads and some were tost upon the poynts of their pikes to and fro Many that were brought up high and mighty mountains were tied neck and héels together and tumbled down the stéep Rockes At a gallant Town called Tollareta they destroyed all the women and children that they could light upon and cut off the childrens heads and boyled them and eate the brains for sawce and all the men that they could take they stript them naked and cut slasht their bodies with Swords and Fanlchins and stopt up their wounds with Salt and Gunpowder They overtooke some in their running and staked them fast to the ground They hanged many up by the féet till they dyed and some they breched through with spits and roasted alive And thus were the poore Protestants put to most cruell and inhumane deaths both in