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passions must be at work Among the defiles of the Alps as ia the streets and chapels of London , I fete apprehensive as to the reception which an Unitarian might meet with amongst such zealous professors of an opposite system of religious belief . On entering the populous town of Pignerolp , I inquired if there were any inn kept by a Vaudois , by which term is always understood a Protestant of the Valleys . I was shewn a comfortable house ,
where the people were all full of civility and attention on being informed J was a Protestant . I inquired of ray landlord how many Vaudois there wer £ in the town . He said four families , but they lived there at some hazard since the restoration of the King of Sardinia , as it was a little without the limits to which the law confined them . " Po you live on good terms with your neighbours , the Catholics ? " " There are , to he sure , " Ije replied ,
" some bad people , but for my part I have never received any injury on account of my religion . People frequent my inn just as soon as those of the Catholics . " Having inquired what religious or other instruction his family enjoyed , he informed me that he might have them educated gratis at the Catholic schools , because they would be very glad to make converts of them ; but as he wished them to be brought up in the same faith as himself , they had not so much instruction as he could wish . The nearest Protestant
school was at San Giovanni , nine miles off , where twenty-four children were instructed gratis . One of his four children was there , and the others would go , but the number was full , and they would have to pay thirty sous ( Is , 3 d , ) per month for instruction in reading , writing , and other elements , and six francs ( 5 s . ) per month to the person who boards all the children at this school . This makes a total of only £ 3 . 15 $ . per annum for each child , exceeding in cheapness even our Yorkshire schools . But when I saw the
children next morning getting their breakfast , I did not wonder at the cheapness of their board . A sous' worth of bread and a sous' worth of grapes make the morning meal of a growing lad . Younger children have a small bunch of grapes , three of which make about a pound , at a sous per lb . For dinner , their only hearty meal , they have a basin of polenta , a sort of soup or hasty pudding made of chesnut flour , and perhaps a little boiled meat , and a tumbler of poor wine . I mention this to shew how the poor ( whether
Protestant or Catholic ) live in this part of the world . They certainly eat exceedingly sparingly .- ^ -Nothing but the Piedmpntese is spoken at Pignerolo , except by the Protestants , who also speak F < rench , but with difficulty . A respectable elderly Vaudois was , I was informed , going to La Torre , eleven miles distant , where the Moderator resides , and would f > e glad of my company , and I jni gbt have his horse , while he accompanied me on foot . I accepted the offer , and found him ,, though poor in appearance , very intelligent , and , what I wanted , completely versed in the ancient history of his country , connected with the places we had to pass . At the chance of
about a couple of miles from Pignerolo , we . passed a bridge of the river Clusone , on the eastern bank of which no Protestant is allowed by law to reside , and entered on the territory of the Vaudais , As we passed along , my aged and respectable companion pointed out many spots where his ancestors had been compelled to maintain a bloody conflict with their oppressors in
the six months' war which they carried on after their , triumphant retwrn in 1690 , to take possession of their ancient abodes , and which is always called , " La cj lorieuse nrewtrte" They had for their Colonel and Pastor , at the same time , \ Henry Arnaud , alike femed for this impassioned mode of address and his courage in the field . He shewed apie dhe gitufttioft where Arnau ^ l
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/19/
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