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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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Volume 1 › Chapter 3 › An Account of the PERSECUTIONS of the WALDENSES, in FRANCE.
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IN the year 1400, the Waldenses, who resided in the valley of Pragela, were at the instigation of some priests, suddenly attacked by a body of troops, who plundered their houses, murdered many, and drove others into the Alps, where great numbers were frozen to death, it being in the depth of winter.
A. D. 1460, a persecution was carried on in Dauphiny against the Waldenses, by the archbishop of Ambrune, who employed a monk, named John Vayleti; and this monk proceeded with such violence, that not only the Waldenses but even many papists were sufferers. For if any papists expressed compassion or pity for the inoffensive people, who were so cruelly treated, they were sure to be accused of favouring the Waldenses, and to be punished for commiserating the miseries of their fellow-creatures. At length Vayleti's proceedings became so intolerable, that a great number of the papists themselves wrote a petition against him to •ewis the Eleventh, king of France. The monarch, on receiving this petition, granted the request of the petitioners, and sent and express order to the governor of Dauphiny to stop the persecution.
VAVLETI, however, by the order of the archbishop, still continued the persecution; for taking advantage of the last clause of the •dict, he pretended, he did nothing contrary to the king's precept, who had ordered punishment for such as affirmed any thing against the holy catholic faith. This persecution at length concluded with the death of the archbishop, which happened A. D. 1487.
VAVLETI, however, by the order of the archbishop, still continued the persecution; for taking advantage of the last clause of the •dict, he pretended, he did nothing contrary to the king's precept, who had ordered punishment for such as affirmed any thing against the holy catholic faith. This persecution at length conclded with the death of the archbishop, which happened A. D. 1487.