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    ministers , assembled in synod , the 19 th Oct . 1716 . As it refers to a persecution subsequent to the age of some of the best historians of the WaldensesyJ will here insert the substance of

    the manuscript , premising , however , that whilst every thing material is extracted , there are circumstances connected with the sufferings of some of the martyrs , refinements in the art of cruelty , of so horrid a description , that I forbear to relate them . *

    On the 3 rd of January , 1686 , appeared an edict forbidding religious worship , requiring their temples to be destroyed , their ministers banished and their children baptized and educated in the Roman Catholic Church . Shortly afterwards the troops of Savoy attacked the valley of JLuzerne , and those of France the valleys of St . Martin and La Perouse . The

    Vaudois made at first considerable resistance , but , deceived by a false promise , that their persons and fauiilies should be safe , they threw themselves on the I ? uke of Savoy ' s clemency . This , however , proved no security . Their enemies still breathed

    threatenings and slaughter , and events conti-Suall y occurred to remind them that ley must take up their cross , nor love even life itself , if they fneant to preserve an unshaken attachment to f the truth as it is in Jesus , " The following cruelties , amongst others , were exercised : —

    J . and Marguerite Maraude , of St . Jean , were murdered while defending Marguerite Maraude , a child aged Jourteen . Susanne Olivet , of St . Jean , and Marguerite Belin , of Latour , each , in resisting brutal violence , lost her life .

    Jos . David was first wounded , then conveyed to a house and burnt . Four women and three children , of Prarustix , were murdered in a cave where they had concealed themselves . Marie Roman , of Rocheplate , a young person promised in marriage to J * Griot , lost her life in defending her honour .

    At Puinian were found numbers of little children cut in pieces , and wofnen who had been massacred . In the village of Perouse six n * en were killed in the presence of their J * aq l UWt ^ t , q £ MW& * r << t * iugr ty

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    change his religion , had his legs and arms burnt . A poor infirm man was tied to . a horse ' s tail , and dragged till he j&x pired . An aged blind woman was hanged before her own house .

    Four women were violated and hewi ^ in pieces , after first seeing their children massacred , at Fontaines ; whei * $ also a great number of sick children were murdered , because they could not follow others to prison . Twenty-two persons , chiefly wo * men and children , were thrown over precipices at Mount Pelvon ^

    David Grand , of Bobbi , was hanged , and sang praises to God whilst led to execution . Daniel Negrin , aged eighteen , and Pierre Mentinat , aged fifty , ( of

    Bobbi ) were led to the Alp of Pra * but so ill-treated because they would not change their religion , that they died on the way . Their dead bodies were then hanged and burnt *

    Anne and Madeline Victoria , and several others , were burnt . ' Daniel Moudon , elder of the church of Hora , after seeing his two sons beheaded , the wife and child of the one ,

    and the two children of the other * massacred , was compelled to carry the heads of bis sons upon his shoulders * to walk two hours barefooted , and was afterwards hanged . Mr . Leydet , Minister of £ ral , hid himself in caves , but was at length taken , and conveyed to Luzerne , to the palace pf the Marquis D * Angrogne , where the Pake of Savoy was also at , the sajpae tiine . He wai imprisoned and fed on bread and water ; and , in addition to other

    hardships , was constantly assailed by tha Monks , over whom he as constantly triumphed in argument . When threatened with death if he did not abjure his faith , he replied , that he could not ,

    be justly put to death * since he wai not armed when taken prisoner ; be * sides , the Duke of Savoy ^ ad promised a pardon to all his subjects : " Still , " said he , " I am reaOv to d » for the name of Jesus Christ . " H *

    example and exhortations exceedingly fortified hia fellow-prisoners . When the sentence of death was pronounced * he heard it with Christian jresignattofr Although he begged to b $ left ajQB * ii ) wdw tQ pr ^ y witU freafo ** * ^

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    ISO Memoir respecting the Waldenses *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/2/