poore Taillerets yet more cruelly, sent his armye agayne before day, to the moūtaine, and into the same place: And because the people of the sayd village, were retyred towardes Villars, and scattered about the borders therof, in the highe mountaines: MarginaliaThe Village of Tailleret, sacked and spoyled.the souldiers not yet satisfied with spoyling and sackyng the rest that they found in the sayd Tailleret, raungyng about the confines therof, rauened, and made hauocke on euery side, of what soeuer they could lay handes on, takyng prisoners both mē and women, which were loden with cariage. The poore prisoners were cruelly handled. MarginaliaThe crueltie of Papistes.Amongest other there was one, whose eare a souldier of Montdenis, in a raging fury, bitte cleane of, with these wordes: I will cary (sayd he) the fleshe of these wretched heretickes with me, into my coūtrey. They of Villars also complained of the great crueltie that was shewed vnto them, duryng the tyme of the agreement. The which, when the Lord of Trinitie vnderstode, to make a shewe that he was offended therewith, he came to his souldiers (which were so wearye, þ^t they could scantly go, not with fighting, but because they were so heauely loden with the spoyle, that they were not hable to carye it) and pretendyng to be in a great coler, some he beate, & somethynges also of small value, he caused to be restored, but all the rest was kept backe, & caryed away. MarginaliaTwo wemen, the mother & the daughter, Martyrs.The same day, ij. wemen, the mother and the daughter, were found in a caue, in the mounteine, wounded to death by þ^e souldiers, & dyed immediatly after. MarginaliaThe grandfather and hys nyce dyed Martyrs.So likewise a blynd man, a hundreth yeares of age, whiche was fled into a caue, with his sonnes daughter, beyng xviij. yeares old, whiche fed him, was slayne by the enemyes, and as they would haue forced the maiden, she escaped from them, and fell from the toppe of the mounteine, and died.

At that tyme also, a great company of wemen of Tailleret & Villars, were takē as they fledde, with their goods, and brought to the campe, and sent away emptie. There was at the same tyme, a certeine souldier whiche promised the Lorde of Trinitie, to finde out the Minister of Tailleret, and to deliuer him into his owne handes. And to bryng his purpose to passe, hee neuer ceased, vntill hee had found him, and after that he pursued him, a lōg time. MarginaliaA wicked persecuter killed with stones.But as hee was pursuyng and chasing him, certeine at vnwares, commyng out of the mountaine, rescued the poore Minister and killed the souldier with stones.

But this especially is to bee noted, that duryng these troubles, diuers of the Papistes had sent their daughters into the mountaines, vnto the Waldoys, to be kept, fearyng least they should haue bene rauished by the souldiers, beyng wholy giuen ouer, as to all cruelly and rauine, so to all vilanie and abomination: by whom they were before threatned to be so abused.

All this beyng done, þ^e sayd Lord of Trinitie caused the head officers & chiefest of þ^e people, to assemble together, and declared vnto thē that þ^e mainteynyng of the armye was a great charge vnto the Duke: and that it was meete that they should beare the one halfe of þ^e charges. For this cause, hee demaunded of them twenty thousand crownes. But by the meanes of his Secretary Gastaut, who was promised a hundreth crownes for hys wyne (that is to say, for a bribe) iiij. thousand of those twentye, were abated, MarginaliaThe poore Waldoys pressed at xvj. thousand crownes.so that they graunted vnto him, xvj. thousand: of the whiche summe the Duke released the one halfe. Thē the Lord of Trinitie pressed this poore people, to deliuer the eight thousand, out of hand, to pay the souldiers their wages (as he said) and so to withdraw his armye. The yeare before, corne was excedyng deare: for a sacke was commonly sold for vi. crownes, yea and some, for viij. crownes, and also they had very litle corne growyng vpon their mountaynes: wherfore they were now very bare of money. But they being in this perplexitie, and desiryng nothyng more then to lyue in peace and quietnes, went about to sell their cattell, to pay this money. But the Lord of Trinitie had giuen out a commaundemēt, that none should bye any cattell of the Waldoys, without his licence. MarginaliaThe Papistes false of promise.Then licence was giuen out to certeine, to bye great store of cattell, and that for a small price: and the common brute was, that he had part of the gayne. When this money was payed, yet the armie notwithstandyng, retired not.

After this, the Lord of Trinitie commaunded the Waldoys, to surrender vp all their armour, to furnishe the Dukes Fortes: otherwise, he threatned to send his souldiers amongest them: and in dede hee constrayned many so to do. Then he demaunded moreouer, the eight thousand crownes, whiche the Duke had remitted, and constrayned them to promise the payment therof. After that he commaūded that the Ministers should be sent away, vntill the matter were determined before the Duke: otherwise hee would send his souldiers to dislodge them out of hand: wherupon with one common assent and accord, they determined, that their Ministers should withdraw them selues for a space, vntill the armye were retired: Whiche was not done without maruelous sighes, lamentation, and teares. At that season there fell such abundance of snow, that the like had not bene seene of a long tyme before: so that the people were constrayned to make away, with great trauell and payne, through the toppe of the mountaine of S. Martin, for their Ministers to passe. Now, thought þ^e Lord of Trinitie, so to haue enclosed them, hee kepyng the playne, and the mountaynes beyng couered so thicke with snow, that by no meanes they shoulde haue escaped his handes. MarginaliaThe care of the Waldoys for their Ministers.But the people caused them to passe the toppe of the mountaine: and at their departure, there flocked out of euery quarter, great multitudes, to the village of Boby, & came together into a secrete place there, called Le Puis, not without great grief and sorrowe: For they founde them altogether in teares and mournyng, that their Ministers should so be taken from them, and they now left as lambes amongest wolues.

MarginaliaGods prouidence for hys Ministers.The armye was aduertised that the Ministers were assembled together, and incontinent, a great troupe of harquebushes were at hande, whiche sought them euen to the very toppe of the mountaine, in so much, that if they had remained there but one houre longer, they had bene all taken. From that tyme, for certaine dayes after, they did nothyng but raunge about in all places, seeking for the Ministers, and there was no house, chamber, caue nor secret corner, into the whiche they did not enter, vnder pretence to seke the Ministers. There was neither cheest, nor any thing els so strong, but they brake it open, saying: that the Ministers were hidden therein, and by that meanes, they tooke, spoyled, and caryed away what so euer they would.

The Lorde of Trinitie promised often tymes, that, although it were forbidden to all the Ministers, to preach, yet the Minister of Angrongne, should bee excepted: and furthermore, sent the sayd Minister woorde, that if hee would demaunde any thyng of the Duke, it should bee graunted him. Wherupon, the sayd Minister made this request, that the poore people might lyue peaceably in their religion. A while after, he sent for the said Minister to conferre with him priuatly, vpon certeine poynts of religion. The Minister went vnto him, hauyng therto, þ^e consent of þ^e people. The Lord of Trinitie propoūded vnto him iij. pointes. The first, cōcerning þ^e supremacy of the Pope: the other concerned transubstanciation. Of the which ij. poyntes, the Minister then immediatly declared his opinion, and he semed to agree therunto, and required him to put the same in writyng. MarginaliaMarke here the faire pretence and traiterous meaning of the Lord of Trinitie, which by and by after, seeketh the death of this good Minister.The last (whiche was his whole drift) was to persuade the Minister to go to the Dukes Court, and there to defende the cause of the people, alledgyng certeine reasons to persuade him so to do. Wherunto the Minister aunswered, that hee was bound to God and hys Church: and if it semed conuenient to the Ministers and people, that he should go, hee would be content to do the same, and therof he promised to send him aunswere immediatly: with the whiche aunswere he semed to be contented.

Shortlye after, the foresayd Lorde, not tarying for an aunswere, sent his armie to the Temple of S. Laurence in Angrongne, pretending to sing a Masse there, and sodenly the souldiers besieged þ^e Ministers house. The Minister beyng warned therof, assayed to escape. The souldiers attempted nothyng by force, but vsed gentle persuasions to the contrary, for there were not yet many of thē. But the Minister pushed on further, & the souldiers followed him halfe a myle: but fearyng the people, durst go no further. The Minister withdrew hym selfe into the rockes vpoō the mounteine, accōpanied with fiue other. MarginaliaThe Minister of Angrōgne pursued of the souldiers.The armye was by and by at his heeles, and sought a good while, in the houses & cotages, on euery side, cruelly handlyng the people whom they tooke, to make them cōfesse where their Minister was, spoyling their houses, takyng some prisoners, and beatyng other some: but yet they could not learne of thē where their Minister was. At the length, they espyed hym amongest the rockes, where they thought to haue enclosed him, & so they pursued him in the rockes, all couered with snow, vntill it was night, and could not take him. MarginaliaThe Ministers house spoyled.Then they returned and spoyled his house, and diligently searched out