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  cKtnteh of St- John being shut up , the iiAiabiitants are compelled to go to their ancient church ( almost destroyed by an eirihduafce } Iii the ' commune of
  
  An-^ L Mi rfiri - * 100 » 150 Tfcavier&s ^ - ' - - u 100 - 30 ' ^ C&ajbrarit - - - - 60 - 50 « Total 19770 1725 - * lit this immbfer are not comprised about 50 Protestant families of difteVerit nifiofes , settle ^ at Tf urm , who have no om&r pastor ^ thtah the chaplain either of tKfe'English or Prussian envoy . Tile cdmihunes marked P . have Protestant c& ^ rch&s ; the others are obliged to attend ' the nearest church . JBut the
  
  gi ^ ogtite , which has consequently two in ~ ife district . To the more aistarit paife ' df tfte cotmtry , and tiibse seated aih ; ong the suinmits of the mountains , tHfe ininfi ^ ei % cati onfy go to ekercfee tl ^ r fori ^ tfens once or twice a year ^ in t $ 8 fiiqsfc ^ vdurabfe ^ weather , a * rid &ien piSfeKm % heopfen air . Inorfer toreesfe&lish tlhfe Very small cathoKc ^ rish ot * ik $ bh \ * thevcombelled two poor
  
  wi-< l 6 w& bTfsatstors who had anasjteni in tKfe' H 6 & $ ki iff the ancient ctire ^ , ^ 0 < ft # t tHeir atuation ^ ithdttt notice in the ^ Bflfe ttf ^ ecember , notwithstancRbg rfffitall toslble solicitatibns wer ^ made {< & \ Wilfbdtdxy rndtifeehce , and m * c ^ pfeiti ^^ wfrieh the writer of this DSKrmWrd to Mf . Hill . has been
  
  • i * TfTO g ^ o ^ drawn ujr n ^ Uaite , ^ fenfeins Only indisputable truths , as may be proved to conviction to ^ dWwhb WKI apply to M . Gevmet , a ^ tor , iii # ' chaplain-to 'Mr . hS , jgffidish- en ^ o ^ it Turin < fbrnierly nib-4 $ aWt > f ihfeVaudois cWorches ) add tft ^ -Ex-SWJPrefect of Pigtteroi , ef wftSich all ftie -Vaxidois communes a ^ e
  
  dfifendencfe ^ l . Itr is "necessa ry to sta fe tftSt M" tfife'pastor Bert of ti « a four , i s at this tfijlSe ^ engaged m Arawink iip another acfeotfnt of tne situation of tHc t * sftdois \ WKteh % annd « bi ! itf ^ E ? fii in ttte cWStents of Wiis , -of -whiclt he Ms rto kftWwIetige ^ ^ The Vtfud 6 is pe ^ siia ^ e
  
  tlHSbiselvesy ^ mat not-only all ihe W 6-t ^ $ fe . nt pow ^ d wiH favourably consider their case , 6 tt » also the trtagnanrrnois tdfiftferors ^ Wbcander and Francis ^ arid tif other ffi ^ tncms princ ^> \ t Wfbfrb <• . , - I / ' '' . - - - . ¦ ¦¦ : < . .., *) - V . ' . Yt ; ' > .- UiL . ^^^^^ f ^^ e * ci - i . ? . r - - - - ,. ¦; . -. „ V
  
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  e < 3 by tHecabiriet « if Loftdort , th ^ mo st powerful of £ & . ">* o » t v ¦ , Raynettis S « fc < i 6 v db tfctfuisitor , h ^ p ublished a book against the Vaudots , in which he giv ^ sr th&tn the name of Lie&msU 9 from orife of their ancient
  
  leaders called Leonywho lived towards the end of the third benfutfy . You may also see the -blasphemy of the church of Rome ag&inst thte Vatidois in Gretzer * s [ JBfbtmhejUey Wrttteri against that people * Ma ; ny writers pretend that the narrie Vaudois is derived
  
  from Peter Valdtf , whose ^ dhterent $ , pa ^ ecuted in Fralttfee ctetAgthe twelfth ceftskirf , fled forTeftige ^ Inlo the' retreats of the w > scutfe inlvabitants of Our valleys Who thfey knew piroie ^ ed the same r ^ li ^ on with theiftSelvefc . They were
  
  known b y this name , however , eighty years before the ^ rfte of V ^ db , as a ^ - pe ^ rs from a poem Written in the Patois of € he country : iHidti&n tjml es Vdudose , e degne de fMmr . > Fhi § poein is entitled La fiobla Eektin de 1100 ; arid it is said
  
  to ' exist in M . S . at CahietMge . The a ^ fffett * history dfthe Vaudois appear * like a dr € iam to'those wiio have to kriowledge of the i ^ Lrl ik e valour of this smftll , people , itffro have suffi&red persecutions , the recital of which rnii 9 t strike us < frith hon ? or : The following is ^ a list of the historians 6 ^ this
  
  unhatopy peo |> le , Bbye ¥ * $ (^ H EhglfohmanV ) sh 6 rt Hisfcdry of * hfe V ^ afe ^ ort ^ I 2 ma . Perrin ' s History of the Vaudois and Albigehses , gvb . I ^^ er ^ sr Geheral Histdry 6 f the V&uddi 6 v folio , Gite * s sllort History of rffe same people , 4 to . Brez' Abridgment of the History of th ^ "V ^ audois , 8 vo . Mar&rt&a * s Picture 6 ( Hedttiorlt , imperfect .
  
  * The situation df the ? pastors is truly deplorable . For the government have condemned Messrs . Vertu aafcd Brezzi ( who rented froirh the Pt 0 tes ^ tant minifet 6 ra the property granted by the French government of the value of 1000 franks t
  
  earfi ) to reimburse Che sum of abou teti thousand ftarikfe , AoVanced by them to the Prdtestaitt minfetem , 1 as they were authorized to do , and to ctaiiti the salme from the pastors , who ^ tre jfrosrtive * ly corhpelled to botro ^ r the irieaia s ot existence , and of Ootirse fittd it impossible to satisfy such a claim . * ¦ ' . . I ; , ¦ i ' - ' - - : ¦ ' . i . . •¦•' .. V j . 2 '• • • t ( ¦ : : ¦
  
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  S 5 & MHn 6 ^ r ^ me 4 & the Vaudoii /
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- Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/4/

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