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    Monies «* iH harassed him with disputes till tiiefciflie of execution , which took place at Fort St . Michael , arrived * On quitting the prison , he said , * it was a day of double deliversince , * teat of his body from captivity , and that of his soul from imprisonment In the body ; for he cherished the expectation of partaking shortly in fall liberty of the joys of the blessed . " At the foot of * Jie scaffold he

    prayed in a manner that very much affected the bye-stauders , and on the ladder said * My God , into thy hands I commend my spirit . "— -A martyr worthy of the best ages of irhe church of Christ !—Even his enemies were compelled to admit that Le died like a saint .

    About fifteen thousand of the Waldenses , men , women and children , who threw themselves on the Drake ' s clemency , were confined in fourteen castles and prisons of Piedmont , with a scanty allowance of bread and water > and various means were used to render this bread and water

    unwholesome . They always lay upon bricks or rotten straw , and so many together that ihe very air ^ v as infected : aeventy-five mdk have been reckoned ma single room at onetime . Eight thousand persons died in consequence

    of these . barbarities . After suffering nine months , those who survived were permitted to retire ittto Switzerland ; but not befpre tnreat ; enings and allurements had been artfully employed to induce them to forsake their

    religion—in general without effect : and those who did apostatize , instead of recovering their houses and property , according to a specious promise made to them , were conveyed to the distant province of Verceil . A great number of children , however , taken

    away and dispersed in Piedmont , were not allowed io accompany their relatives to Switzerland ; and the nine pastors were removed to Verrue * Nice , and Montmeillan , deprived of the privilege of imparting religious consolation to their beloved people .

    Eighty of the men were forced to work in . chains for three years in the < &a , del of Turin . Even those perfitted to seek refuge in Switzerland ^* i * edgreM calamities . One comity was require ^ £ o , set put late in J ^« ^ v ^ nil ^ fr » n 4 wrtk live f leagues w& snow andioe : more than one tafad and fifty &td in the way

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    withont succour . Another company foreseeing dreadful weather , entreated the officer who conducted them to stay till after the storm ; hvtt he obliged them to set out , and eightysix persons perisiied in consequence on Mount Cenis . Their friends were

    not suffered to remain and bury them . Others of the Waldenses , who £ < b 1 lowed , found their bodies amidst the snow ; several women with their ia ^ fants stftl in their arms . Many expired by the time * they reached the

    gates of Geneva , and all exhibited marks of peculiar suffering . These poor destitute fugitives , while they remained in Switzerland , were supported by the charitable contribu * tiom of the English and Dutch , which were administered with so much

    fidelity by Isaac Behaghel , Minister of Frankfort , that he was afterwards presented with a gold medal by William III . Through the generous mterference of M * Valkenier , they obtained grcfunds in the dominions of the Duke of Wirtemberg , on the

    estates of the Margrave of Dourlach ^ the Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt , and the Count of Hanau , where they established fourteen churches , naming their villages after the beloved spots they once inhabited in the valleys . Seven ministers and schoolmasters

    were there supported by his Britannic Majesty . Others of the Vaudafe went to the marquisate of Brandenburg ; others settled in the county of Neufchatel , at Bienue , and at Schaffhausen . In 1689 a party of somewhere between six and nine hundred , joined , I believe , by three hundred

    French exiles , resolved to ve-occupy the houses and lands of which they had been so unjustly deprived . For this purpose they met by agreement in a wood between Nyon aud Rolle , towns situated on the lake of Geneva ^ aud on the 17 th of August , at ten

    o ' clock at night , crossed the lake and landed in Savoy . They then directed their course through Cluse , Magian , and Salenches , forced their way at the point of * the sword - 9 took hostages , in order to secure a free passage through the towns where they met yvith

    opposition ( -yet paid for the provisions the , y took on their journey ) 9 and in this manner passed through En ^ gne * Xegue , Mont JV $ arienu <* , gonpeya ^ Bexaw , Mont Cenis , m ^ r ^ hwg eye snow , climbing up rocks * guataitting

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    M&noir respecting ihe WaMemes * 151

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/3/