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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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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 concl•ded with the death of the archbishop, which happened A. D. 1487.
POPE Innocent the eighth, A. D. 1488, determined to persecute the Waldenses. To this end he sent one Albert de Capitaneis, archdeacon of Cremona, to France. When Albert arrived in Dauphiny, he craved the assistance of the king's lieutenant to exterminate the Waldenses from the valley of Loyse. The lieutenant very readily granted his assistance, […] marched a body of troops to the place. When they arrived at the valley, they found that it had been deserted by the inhabitants, who had retired to the mountains, and hid themselves in caves, caverns, &c. The archdeacon and lieutenant immediately followed them with the troops, and catching many, they cast them headlong from precipices, by which they were dashed to pieces. Several, however, retired to the farther parts of the caverns, and knowing the intricacies better than the troops, they were able to conceal themselves. The archdeacon and lieutenant, not being able to come at them, ordered the mouths of the caves to be filled with faggots, which being lighted, those within were suffocated. On the cave's being afterwards searched, 400 infants were found smothered, either in their cradles or their mother's arms; and, upon the whole, about 3000 men, women, and children, were destroyed in this persecution.