Matchlesse crueltie declared at large in the ensuing history of the Waldenses apparently manifesting unto the world the horrible persecutions which they have suffered by the papists, for the space of four hundred and fifty years : wherein is related their original and beginning, their piety and purity in religion, both for doctrine and discipline : likewise hereunto is added an exact narrative of the late bloody and barbarous massacres, murders and other unheard of cruelties committed on many thousands of the Protestants dwelling in the valleys of Piedmont, &c. by the Duke of Savoy's forces, joyned with the French army and several bloody Irish regiments / published by command of His Highness the Lord Protector.
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Matchlesse crueltie declared at large in the ensuing history of the Waldenses apparently manifesting unto the world the horrible persecutions which they have suffered by the papists, for the space of four hundred and fifty years : wherein is related their original and beginning, their piety and purity in religion, both for doctrine and discipline : likewise hereunto is added an exact narrative of the late bloody and barbarous massacres, murders and other unheard of cruelties committed on many thousands of the Protestants dwelling in the valleys of Piedmont, &c. by the Duke of Savoy's forces, joyned with the French army and several bloody Irish regiments / published by command of His Highness the Lord Protector.
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Perrin, J. P. (Jean Paul)
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London :: Printed for Edward Brewster ...,
1655.
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Waldenses.
Albigenses.
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"Matchlesse crueltie declared at large in the ensuing history of the Waldenses apparently manifesting unto the world the horrible persecutions which they have suffered by the papists, for the space of four hundred and fifty years : wherein is related their original and beginning, their piety and purity in religion, both for doctrine and discipline : likewise hereunto is added an exact narrative of the late bloody and barbarous massacres, murders and other unheard of cruelties committed on many thousands of the Protestants dwelling in the valleys of Piedmont, &c. by the Duke of Savoy's forces, joyned with the French army and several bloody Irish regiments / published by command of His Highness the Lord Protector." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54403.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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CHAP. XVIII.
Of the VValdenses inhabiting in Spaine, and that they were there persecuted.
IN the time of the warres against the Earle Re∣mond of Toulouze, and the Earle de Foix, and comming when the Waldenses were persecu∣ted by the Popes Legates, many of them went into Catalogne, and the Realm of Aragon. This is that which Math.
Paris sets down, saying, that the time of Pope Gregory the 9, there were a great number of Waldenses in Spaine, [ 1214] & about the yeer 1214, in the time of Alexander the fourth, who complained in one of his Bulles, that they had bin suffered to take such foo∣ting
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& that they should haue so much leasure as to mul∣tiply as they had done. For in the time of Gregory the 9. they so far forth increased in number and credit, that they ordained Bishops ouer their flockes, to preach their doctrine, which the other Bishops taking notice off, there followed a gricuous persecution.