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A28933	The history of the Vaudois. Wherein is shewn their original; how God has preserved the Christian religion among them in its purity, from the time of the Apostles to our days; the wonders he has done for their preservation, with the signal and miraculous victories that they have gained over their enemies; how they were dispersed, and their churches ruined; and how at last they were re-established, beyond the expectation and hope of all the world. / By Peter Boyer ... ; and newly translated out of French by a person of quality.; Abrégé de l'histoire des Vaudois. English	Boyer, P. (Pierre), 1619-ca. 1700.; Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.; Person of quality.	1692 (1692)	Wing B3918A; ESTC R5697	97,378	276

put in Prison making use of the secular power to this end and when they had them there they either let them perish there or else condemned them to Death The Inquisitors likewise by threatnings forced Margarite de Foix Soveraign Lady of the Marquesate of Saluzzo to persecute the Vaudois that were in her Marquisate the Persecution was so great and so cruel that these poor Protestants were forced to leave house and home and to save themselves in the Valely of Lucerne without carrying any thing off but their precious Souls there they stayed five years in this miserable Condition during which time they perpetually plyed the Duke of Savoy with humble Supplications that he would be pleased to mediate for them that they might berestored to their own Country and that the unjust Usurpers of their Lands and Goods might be forced to restore But at last seeing all Prayers and Submissions did serve to no purpose because of the opposition of the Pope the Clergy and above all of the Inquisitors they resolved to take up Arms and to endeavour to repossess themselves of their Lands and Goods and that which gave them the greater courage and boldness to do it was because they were chased out by Force without any order of their Soveraign Lady This Enterprize was attended with a happy Success on a sudden they invaded the Usurpers of their Goods they chased them away and frighted them so that they never attempted more a return and these poor Vaudois after this happy Exploit for at least a hundred years after enjoyed a profound Peace and Liberty of their Religion through all the Marquisate CHAP. VI. Of the Second War against the Vaudois of Piemont by Charles I. Duke of Savoy PHilip VII Duke of Savoy being dead Charles his Son succeeded him This Prince was mightily importuned by the Archbishop and Inquisitor of Turin to deliver over to the secular power his Subjects of the reformed Religion he gave commission to Don Pentaleon Bressour Lord of Rocheplate to war against them in the Year 1534. This Nobleman having chosen 1500. select men out of all the Troops of the Duke when the Vaudois thought themselves most secure having not the least Suspition of their Enemies Intention he suddenly attacqued them surprizing killing and massacring all that came in his way without sparing Age or Sex which caused a great consternation in these Valleys but at last these people resuming their innate courage mustered together and put themselves in so good order that the day following as their Enemies thought of marching on and continuing their Butcheries all along the Valley of Lucerne they charged them so couragiously in the Rear and in the Front and in the Flank that a great number of these Massacrers were killed upon the field others saved themselves by flight leaving behind them the booty and the Prisoners they had taken from the Vaudois When the Duke of Savoy saw that the Skin of a Vaudois cost him twenty Roman Catholicks he would not permit they should be any more persecuted by open force of Arms but that more secret means should be taken as less dangerous to bring this about he established certain Troops of Highway-men and Assassins who laid in Ambuscado in places proper for their design and when the Vaudois descended from the Mountains or went out of the Valleys about their affairs they were presently seized on many for a long time fell into these Snares and became the Prey of those Villains who after they had ransomed them notwithstanding took away their lives by most exquisite torments Catalan Gerard of St. John in the Valley of Lucerne was one of those who fell into their hands he was burnt alive at Revel a City of Piemont and suffered death with an admirable constancy CHAP. VII Of the third War against the Vaudois of Piemont and the Persecution that they suffered from the Parliament of Turin FRancis the First King of France having made himself Master of Piemont and dispoiled the Duke of Savoy of his Principality in the year 1536. as well he as the Pope incited the Parliament of Turin to proceed against the Vaudois as against Pernicious Hereticks in obedience to whom they raised a great persecution imitating in that the Parliaments of France who persecuted those of the Reformed Religion These poor people had recourse to the King presenting him an Humble Petition hoping to obtain some favour from this their new Lord and Master and so much the more because it 's the custom among Princes to pretend a great kindness and tenderness for their new subjects to engage them the more in their service But this did but worsen their condition for the King commanded them to live according to the Laws of the Roman Church telling them that if they did not obey his Order he would severely punish them as obstinate Hereticks telling them that he did not burn them in France to suffer them in the Alpes The Parliament of Turin being encouraged by this severe Answer presently enjoyned the Vaudois to put away from them their Ministers and to receive in their places Priests who should come and say Mass to them They answered it was impossible to obey Orders so contrary to the Word of God that they were willing to give Caesar what appertained to Caesar as they had always done but that they would likewise give to God the things that belong to God and that in this case they were resolved according to the examples of the Apostles rather to obey God than man and rather hold themselves to the Word of God than the traditions of man The King then having many affairs upon his shoulders the Parliament judged it not proper to undertake an Open War against them but they contented themselves to give Orders to the Judges and Magistrates to assist vigorously the Monks and Inquisitors and to burn all the Vaudois that should fall into their hands many laid down their lives this way but with admirable constancy above all Bartholomew Hector who was publickly burnt at Turin in the year 1555. who by an edifying death drew a flood of tears even from the multitude of the Papists and not content only with tears they greatly murmured and made sharp invectives against the cruelty of the Monks and Inquisitors In the year 1557. Mr. Varaille an excellent Minister of Angrougne unfortunately falling into their hands was publickly burned in the Castle-yard singing with a loud voice the praises of God in the middle of the flames even to the last breath This same year Nicholas Sartoris Student in Divinity at Geneva having a mind to visit his Country was taken in the Valley of Auste and accused of Heresie and the enemies of the truth seeing they could not draw him by flattery nor shake him by threats ordered him to be burnt alive and so he died a glorious death CHAP. VIII Of the fourth War against the Vaudois of Piemont by Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy after the General Peace in

Lucernette St. Iohn de la Tour de Bubbian de Fenil de Campligon de Briguieras and of St. Secundus the Commssion was dispatched the 13th of January 1655. and the 25th day of the same Month Gastaldo gave Orders and a strict command to all the Protestants of the foresaid places to abandon them and to retire with their Families within three days after the publication into places which his royal Highness did tollerate which are Bobbi Villar Angrogne Roras and the Country of the Bonnets under the pain of Death and confiscation of all their Goods if they found them in the aforesaid Limits if within twenty days they do not make it appear to us that they are become Roman Catholicks or that they have sold their Goods to Catholicks Those that gave this pernicious Counsel to the Duke knew that the Protetestants were time out of mind established there even before the Dukes of Savoy were Princes of Piemont and the Predecessors of Charles Emanuel II. who had given this commission to Gastaldo had maintained them by divers declarations and grants but they belived that the Vaudois who were well established in those places that they were commanded to quit would not obey the unjust command of Gastaldo and that so they would take their disobedience for a pretence to destroy them or if they obeyed and they could not be destroyed or chased out of the rest of the Valleys the places they should quit would be enough to receive the Irish who being a people that had been long trained up in the wars would be a bridle upon the Vaudois and put them upon an impossibility of ever recovering their former habitations Although the Protestants well knew the injustice of this order and that they had sufficient reason not to obey it nevertheless to take away all pretence from their Enemies of rendring them odious to their Prince and to make them pass for Rebels they quitted the places named by Gastaldo and retired into those assigned in the Proclamation after which they sent Deputies to the Duke who should go and cast themselves at his Feet and by a most humble petition which they presented him they supplicated him with a most profound respect to revoke the Orders given to Gastaldo as being conrrary to their Priviledges and the Grants but their request was without any answer The Vaudois seeing that they had no compassion of their miseries had recourse to her royal Highness his Mother to whom they presented a petition full of Respect and Submission this Princess sent them back to the Council of the Propagation their sworn Enemies and most cruel Persecutors and this Council sent them back to the Marquess de Pianesse who long before had received ordets to go and massacre them as the event made most evidently appear CHAP. XII The sixth war against the Vaudois of Piemont by the Dutchess of Savoy ' and Charles Emmanuel her Son WHile the Vaudois laboured by their humble Supplications and Submissions to sweeten the Spirit of their Prince and to incline him to maintain their rights and priviledges having done nothing that could forfeit them their Enemies laboured with the Duke with all their power to destroy them they raised for this purpose an Army of 15000 men formed of all the Troops of the Duke of four Regiments of French of one Regiment of Germans and twelve hundred of the Irish they were all old Troops Prince Thomas who then commanded the army of the King in Italy sent to the Duke his Nephew four of the best Regimnets of the Army with the Irish the Duke of Bavaria his Brother in Law sent him one of his best Regiments the Army was ready the 15th of April 1655. and in a condition to execute their wicked design against these innocent people who seeing the Enemies army approach their Valleys began to stand upon their Guard In the interim the Marquess of Pianesse who commanded the army amused their Deputies at Turin till they were marched near the Valley and ready to enter them the sixteenth he departed incognito and gave orders before his departure to stop the Deputies till they had received advice that he with his Army was entred the Valleys which would have been executed if a Person of Quality who did not approve the Perfidiousuess and Treachery that was made use of to destroy these poor people had not whispered them in the ear to be gone quickly the Marquess is in the Valleys in short he got into the Valley of Lucerne the day after his departure which was the 17th of the Month of April the 18th the Army foraged and sacked all the Communities and Countrys of St. Iohn and de la Tour without any resistance the 18th the Army going about to force the Vaudois that were retired into the places limited by the order of Gastaldo after they had implored the aid and assistance of the God of battle defended themselves couragiously against all this great Army which attacked them in four several places they repulsed them vigorously and after having killed a great number of their Enemies they put them to the rout though they were an hundred against one CHAP. XIII Of the abominable means that the Marquess of Pianesse made use of to surprize the Vaudois of Piemont and to enter into the Valleys and of the cruel Massacre he made of these poor Innocents after his Entry in the year 1655. THE Marquess of Pianesse seeing that he could not destroy the Vaudois by force of arms had recourse to a most strange and detestable piece of Perfidiousness which Satan had suggested to him He sent a Trumpeter to them to tell them that they should send their Deputies and hear from his Mouth the will and pleasure of his royal Highness that all was for their good and advantage and that they might come with a full assurance the Vaudois desiring nothing more than peace were presently taken in this gin the the Marquess had laid for them they sent away their Deputies with the Trumpet and were received with all demonstrations of Kindness Monsieur de Pianesse entertained them splendidly at Dinner made a thousand protestations of Amity and most endearing Caresses but this was all to surprize them and betray them them as Iudas did with a kiss After he had cast a mist before their Eyes by his Peotestations and deceitful Caresses full of Snares he told them he had nothing to do but with the Inhabitants of those places forbid by the order of Gastaldo but as for other places they had nothing to fear if they would only in sign ofObedience and Fidelity receive and quarter for 2 or 3 days in every one of their Communities a Regiment of Foot and two Troops of Horse the Deputies who believed the protestations of the Marquess were sincere and far from all Treachery and Perfidiousness when they returned to those that had deputed them they so strongly perswaded them to do what the Marquess of Pianesse had counselled them that

to gain so many Victories over their enemies which were expert and tryed Souldiers as we have seen they have done to the 15th of July when they fought alone without the aid or assistance of any foreign help and that which is considerable they had to do with their Prince whom the emissaries of the Pope had armed against them only in hatred of their Religion Their Prince was assisted by the King of France and the D. of Bavaria of which the one was his brother-in-Brother-in-law and the other his Cousin-ge●…man The Vaudois were not the hundredth part of his Subjects and Estates The Prince and all his other Subjects were armed against them and notwithstanding they gained no advantage but on the contrary they were foyled and in most occasions most shamefully put to flight The Protestants of France hearing of the cruel Massacre that was committed upon their Brethren of Piemont made extraordinary prayers to God for them and large Collections to assist those that had escaped Some Provinces celebrated a Fast for them and that of Cevenne celebrated one by order of the Synod assembled at Sale in the month of June 1655. Upon the News that was divulged that those that had escaped the Massacre were re-entered into the Valley and defended themselves there couragiously many Officers and Soldiers of Cevenne and the lower Languedoc went to the succour of their Brethren who in little Companies by several ways got into the Valleys and so the Army of the Vaudois that had not been till the 14. or 15. of July above 600. men consisted of 1800. the 17th or 18th of July The Lord of Combies of the City of Anduse in Cevenne was of the number of those that went to succour their Brethren and because he had had considerable imploys in the Armys of the King of France he was by general consent chosen General of the Army after the example of those of the lower Languedoc and Cevenne many Soldiers out of the Delphinate came and joined them in the Vallies The Army being two thirds stronger than it was it was resolved in a council of War to go and force the Town and Fort of Tour they departed at night the 18th of Iuly for this expedition and they arrived the day following before day within a mile of Tour where they halted till day break and then Monsieur Combies sent some to view the Fortifications of the Fort and those that were sent made a report to the General that the place was impregnable against a greater Army upon which Monsieur Combies ordered to sound a retreat being apprehensive of ill success in his first design But Captain Bertin who was of a contrary opinion would not retreat with his Company but desperately assaulted the Town he was soon followed by the rest of the Vaudois and some two or three French men this Captain who was a Townsman of Tour knew all the weak places about it and presently broke through the Wall near the Convent of Capuchius before the Enemy took the Alarm made himself Master of the Borough and of the Convent which he burnt down to the Ground and there is no doubt to be made that if all the Army of the Vaudois had followed Captain Bertin but that they had taken the Fort notwithstanding the Succours that Maroles Governour of Lucerne brought as soon as he had News of the attempt Monsieur Combies having seen what Captain Bertin had done was much concerned that he had sounded a Retreat And here ends the War of the year 1655. which was followed by a cruel Massacre that was made of the Vaudois in the month of April in the same year but before we speak of Peace it 's necessary that we make some Reflections upon this War CHAP. XVI Reflections upon the War in the year 1655. and of the ensuing Peace made at Pignerol by the mediation of the Ambassador of France and the Ambassadors of the Protestant Cantons IT 's certain that the Duke of Savoy had no better nor more faithful Subjects than the Vuudois who always followed their Prince as well in his wars abroad as at home They never took up arms but when they would force their Consciences and deprive them of the free exercise of their Religion This appears in this that every time that war was made upon them they were commanded first to renounce their Religion and go to Mass and that they let alone in peace all those that obeyed and gave them several priviledges and immunities all the crime the Vaudois for which they were so severely handled was because they would not abandon their Religion which they had received from Father to Son from the time of the Apostles and was in every thing conformable to their Doctrine Those that escaped out of the Massacre had just reason to take up Arms the Enemies had unjustly murdered the Fathers and Mothers of some the Wives and Children of others some had lost their Brothers and Sisters and they would have done the same to them if they had fallen into the hands of these cruel Butchers So much Blood unjustly spilt cryed to Heaven for vengeance and God would make use of the hands of those that escaped to revenge it as the event shewed by the victories they gained over their Massacrers and by the great slaughter they made of them though they were inferior in number and that which is more they were driven from their own Houses Goods and Country against the Laws of Nature and Nations which orders that every one enjoy his own in quiet if he have committed no crimes that make him unworthy of it Now these poor people had committed no crime they were of the Religion they professed before the Dukes of Savoy had any thing to do with Piemont and besides it was confirmed to them by divers grants and priviledges If God had not been willing to re-establish them in their Country would he have given them courage to return without being recalled by their Prince after having been driven out by a cruel Massacre and a puissant Army When Captain Ianavel returned home which was about fifteen or twenty days after he was driven from Roras he had but about 200 men and they had established in the Valleys 1200 Irish all Soldiers there were besides that 3000 men of the old Troops of the Duke of Savoy and all the Inhabitants were Papists so that there were more than an hundred against one But though their Enemies were in so great a number and were Masters of the Country Ianavel notwithstanding returned and not barely content to make excursions but they carried away a good Booty from Lucernette which was a place full of the Enemies and scituate between the Towns of Lucerne and Bobiane where the Duke had strong Garrisons If God had not given the Vaudois courage how would they have undertaken the enterprize of St. Secundus where there were 800 Irish and 650 Piemonteses in garrison strongly fortified and intrenched and they were not