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    © XIVEH CROMWELL AND THE WALBENSES * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir * 1

    Your readers in . general , must feel themselves highly obliged to Mr , W . H . Reid , for a very interesting letter of his which appeared in the last Number of your valuable Magazine * The deliverance of the Waldenses from those most cruel persecutions which they have been exposed to , " with littJe intermission through several centuries / ' is indeed an " astonishing , " as well as a most happy event , and must receive the full approbation of every sincere Christian ! € i

    As the Emperor Napoleon is the prime cause of this act of charity" and justice , so it is not a little remarkable that Olive * Cromwell was the First Protestant Governor , whose interference in behalf of these miserable people , obtained any regard from their detestable oppressors . In the year 1655 ^ he nominated

    Samuel Moreland , Esq . to go in quality of Envoy to the Duke of Savoy , for the express purpose * of entreating him to recal his unmerciful Edicts / 7 against these conscientious Christians , € C and to restore the remnant of them to their ancient liberties

    and habitations / ' He also caused a collection , for their relief , to be made in every parish throughout this kingdom , himself setting an excellent example , by the liberal donation of 2 , 0001 . The sum total thus raised , amounted to 38 , 0971 , ( a large sum indeed in those days ) which was faithfully transmitted to the

    worthy sufferers , and received by them with the most lively expressions of gratitude and admiration . It appears too from Moreland ' s History of these transactions , that their situation was rendered more comfortable , tranquil and secure , during the short remaining period of the life of the Protector , who considered himself as the head of the Protestant Interest in Europe .

    After the Restoration , affairs would of course return again jinto their former channel , and persecution revive in all its ac ~ customed glory . Indeed , nothing different could be expected : for as among the many advantages our ancestors obtained

    along with their " most religious and gracious king , a predilection for Popery was most conspicuous , and also a severe persecution against the English Nonconformists , it would have been truly absurd for the court to interfere , when foreign despots were only amusing themselves in somewhat a similar mode , by hanging or banishing a few thousands of their own

    Protestant subjects . They might justly have retorted , " You are punishing men for differing from yourselves in matters of mere ceremony and indifference—acknowledged to be such by

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/13/