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    events and their present condition , it shall be my object to present a series of remarks under the following heads i 1 . Modern " ^ History . 2 . Description of the Valleys . 3 . Character and ? Manners of the Waldenses . 4 . State *

    of their Schools . 5 . Number and Condition ,, of their Ministers and Churches 1 . 1 . The pathetic details of their sufferings during the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , when tha

    malice of the Court of Rome , the fury of the Inquisition , the weakness at one time , at another time the perfidy of their Sovereigns the Dukes of S «*» voy , conspired to render them , if ia this life only they had bope , of all men most miserable , have been

    already rcorded by their historiaria * The wolves that infest the neighbour * ing Alps were , in fact , less cruel tQ their defenceless prey than the bruta soldiery employed to lead these sheep

    of Christ ' s pasture to the daughter $ they massacred those whom age and infirmity compelled to remain in the valleys , pursued others who had fledP for / safety to the hills , plunged the steel into their bosoms , threw them

    down precipices i in short , committed outrages of various kinds , at whicb humanity recoils . Their more recent history may be said to commence at the last dreadful persecution of 1686- Louis XIV . not content with destroying and banishing his own subjects , f ? Cirtlre > wellknown revocation of the Edict of

    Nantfc ) fesfeated the Court of , Turb to a 4 i > p . t J he same cruel measures ** A minisJt « j « L . Qf the valleys has Keen so kiad as $ p make me a present ojjNan affectiqg relation of the si ^ feriugg of the Waldenses at that period . It is a manuscript of about one hundred " years old ; like EzekieFs roll , full of lamentations and mourning 5 and the truth Qi its content * i * attested by tea

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    _ No . CXXIH . ] MARCH , 1810 . [ Vol . XL

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    Brief Memoir respecting the Walden ~ ses , or Yaudois , Inhabitants of the Valleys of Piedmont ; the result of Observations made during a short residence amongst that interesting People in the Autumn o /* 1814 . JBy a Clergyman of the Church of England . THE sympathy of the Christian has been often powerfully excited by , a description of the sufferings of disciples of an earlier day in the cause of their Lord and Saviour .

    Among these persecuted disciples the Waldenses , it is on all hands acknowledged , are entitled to very high reapect , since they were eminently our Redeemer ' s witnesses , and advocates

    for the purity of Christian doctrine and worship , during those emphatically termed the dark ages , when the introduction of uuse riptural tenets and ostentatious ceremonies had so much

    contributed to seduce people ia general from the simplicity of the gospeL They were , in short , if the expression may be allowed , Protestants before the Reformation took place : and

    some have even supposed that the <« norning-starof that bright day , Wickj liffe himself , derived some portion of ithe light of religious knowledge from tthem .

    The writer of these remarks had , iin common with others , long revered tthe nanre , and often read with interest the history of the Waldenses ,

    vwhen a tour on the Continent afforded hhim an opportunity of becoming personall y acquainted with them : and Ihhe will esteem it a happy circumstance aiif this brief Memoir , the fruit of

    observations made whilst in the valleys * akhould induce benevolent persons in ^ England to make some efforts in their bbehalf . The ancient history of this peopleT p ^ ' . . £ ^ more generally known to BBritish ChrifiitiaHjp than iwre rwent

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/1/