MarginaliaThe poore Christians runne through the pikes.enemyes, saued them selues: some runnyng throughe the myddes of their enemyes, and other some into the rockes. The enemyes beyng entred into Rosa, consumed all with fire and sword. MarginaliaThe Angronians with their younge infantes, flye into the moūtains.The residue of the people fled by a secret way, leadyng to the Valley of Luserne, & wādred al that night vpō the moūtaines full of snow, loden with their stuffe, carying their litle infantes in their armes, & leadyng þ^e other by þ^e hands, with great payne & trauell. When they of the Valley saw thē, they ranne vnto thē, praysyng God for their deliueraunce: for they thought they had bene all slayne. Albeit this poore people were here, in such great extremitie, yet they were ioyfull, & cōforted them selues, without any lamentation or mournyng, excepte the litle poore infantes, whiche cryed out for cold.

A fewe dayes after, the Lord of Trinitie, entred into the Valley of Luserne, by three seuerall wayes: that is to saye, by Rosa, by the Playne, and by the sydes of Tailleret. MarginaliaThe Waldoys again assaulted by the L. of Trinitie.They which kept the passages, at the first, resisted their enemyes valiantly: but perceiuyng that they were assayled on euery side, they retired to Villars, and there defended them selues a while. But because they sawe that their enemyes had already passed the Playne, and gotten aboue Villars, towardes Boby: they gaue ouer & left Villars, & fled into the moūtaines. The souldiers beyng entred, burned houses, and slue all that they could finde. The poore people whiche were fled to the mountaines, seyng the village on fire, praysed God, and gaue him thankes, that had made them worthy to suffer for hys name, and for his cause: and also they were glad to see the village on fire, lest that their enemies should encampe there, them selues. Then the souldiers, in great rage, mounted the hilles on euery side, pursuyng this poore people, in great fury: but a few of thē, after they had ardently called vpon God, tooke courage and beate backe their enemyes to Villars. This done, the armye retired.

Few dayes after, the Medow of Tour was assaulted by iij. seuerall wayes, on the East side. The combate dured a lōg ceason: where diuers of the enemyes were hurt, and many slayne: but none of this poore people were slayne that daye: onely two were hurte, which were soone healed again. But to declare the conflictes, assaultes, skirmishes, and alarmes, which were at Angrongne and other places thereabout, it were to long: for breuities sake, it shall be sufficiēt to touch the most principall & those whiche are most worthy of memory.

On Saterday, whiche was the xiiij. day of February, the people which were in þ^e vppermost parte of the Medowe of Tour, perceiued that a company of souldiers were ascended vp the hill to Angrongne, and burnyng the rest of the houses there. They doubted that it was a policie of their enemyes, to draw them thether, and in the meane tyme: to set on them behynde, & so to wynne the Medow of Tour, from them. Therfore they sent onely six harquebushes agaynst those souldiers, the whiche hauyng the higher ground, and not espyed of their enemyes, discharged their gunnes altogether. MarginaliaThe wicked flyeth, whē no mā pursueth hym.Whereupon incontinent the souldiers fled, albeit no man pursued them. Whether they fled of policie, or for feare, it was not knowne. Shortly after, they of the ward of the Medow of Tour, which were in the watch on the toppe of the moūtaine (because euery mornyng there was a Sermon made, wherunto the people resorted, & they might see a farre of, round about them) espyed a troupe of souldiers marchyng on that syde of the hill, whiche is betwen the East and the North, and soone after that, discouered an other company, whiche marched on the North syde, towardes the said troupe. The first were ascended an houre before the other, and fought on the toppe of the moūtaine called Melese, but they were soone discomfited: MarginaliaThe persecuters pursued.and because they could not runne fast, by meanes of the deepe snow, and difficultie of the wayes: in flying, they fell often down vpō the ground. Whiles they that pursued them were earnest in the chase, & had taken from them their drumme: behold there came certeyne vnto them, crying out, that the other troupe was entred into þ^e Medowe of Tour: by meanes wherof they gaue ouer the chase, or els not one of their enemies had escaped, as they whiche were there, reported for a truth. Not one of Angrongne was slayne or hurt.

The other troupe which came by þ^e North syde, toke a hygh hill, in the toppe of the mountayne, the whiche semed to bee almost inaccessible, by reason of the snow and yce, which was there. The chiefest of this compa- were Ludouicke of Monteil (which had ben before, Maister of the campe in the kynges warres) and Charles Truchet. When they were come to the toppe of the hill, they caused seuen souldiers to goe downe the hill, and to vewe þ^e way, & to see whether the troupe might descend that way or no. These vij. went downe almost to the houses. They sent also other, to occupie the rest of the highe places, whiche were nere to the foote of the hill and the rockes. In the meane tyme, the Ministers and the people, whiche were in the myddes of the Valley of the Medow, saw all this & were much discouraged therwith: MarginaliaGods people fight with prayer.Wherfore they fell to praier & called vpon God ardently, not without great sighes, lamentation, and teares, euen vntill night.

The vij. spyes whiche came downe to discouer the wayes, cryed vnto their Captayne Truchet: come downe, come downe Seignior Charles. This day Angrongne shalbe taken. The other cryed to them agayn: ascend, ascend, and returne, or els ye shalbe slayne euery one of you. Immediatly issued out fiue against these spyes, and tooke certeine, and chased the rest. The first of the fiue whiche set vpon them, cast ij. of them downe vpon the ground with a forke of fire. Soone after, viij of Angrongne issued out agaynst the whole troupe, which was wonderfull to see them go with such courage and boldnes, to assaile such a multitude, and it semed that they should haue ben all destroyed & hewen in peeces. MarginaliaThe courage of Gods people agaynst their enemies.The first of the eight went a good way before the other, to discouer the enemies, and caryed a great staffe, whiche they call a Rancon, and is somwhat bigger then a halbard. The other folowed by ij. and two together, with harquebushes. These eight went frō rocke to rocke, frō hill to hill, about þ^e mountiane, & chased their enemyes valiauntly. Then came twelfe other, the whiche ioynyng with the rest, fought with a wonderfull courage, and made great slaughter of their enemies. Soone after, there came frō the Valley of Luserne, an hundreth harquebushes, with one of their Ministers, accordyng to their maner, whiche are wont to send out a Minister withall, aswell for prayer and exhortation, as to kepe the people in order, that they excede not measure, as it came to passe that day.

At the length, they sawe them also commyng, whiche returned from the disconfiture of the former troupe, makyng a great noise, & hauyng a drumme soūdyng afore them, whiche they had taken from their enemyes: which ioyned with them of the Valley of Luserne, and hauyng made their earnest prayer vnto God, immediatly they came to succour the other, that now were encountryng valiaūtly with their enemyes. MarginaliaA conflicte betwene the Angronians & the enemies.Then the enemyes seyng such a company marchyng agaynst them, with such courage and boldnes: after the other had once called vppon God, their hartes were so taken from them, that suddenly they fled, and as soone as the other began to pray, they began also to flye. But because they could not well saue them selues by runnyng away, they turned backe twise and fought, and some in the meane tyme fled.

He that caryed the Rancon, and discouered the enemies, was but a very young and a simple man, and was estemed to be one that could do nothyng but (as they say in their language) handle La Sappe, that is to say, a hatched, and kept cattell: & yet he with those that folowed, so discomfited the enemyes, that it was wonderfull to behold. He brake his great Rancon, with layng loade vpon them, and after that, hee brake also foure of their owne swordes in pursuyng of them. MarginaliaThe maruelous workes of the Lorde.There was a boy of xviij. yeares of age, and of small stature, which alone slue the Lord of Monteil, Maister of the campe (as is sayd) to the kyng: wherewith the enemyes were meruelously astonished and discouraged. An other simple man, who a man would haue thought, durst not once haue looked Charles Truchet in the face (because hee was a very bygge man, stronge, and puissant, and one of the chiefest Captaynes of the whole armye) MarginaliaDauid with hys slynge kylleth Goliath.threw down the sayd Truchet, with the stroke of a stone. Then a yong man leapt vpon hym, and slue hym with his owne sword, whiche was iiij. fyngers broad, and cleaft his head in peeces.

MarginaliaThe crueltie of thys wretched Truchet agaynst thys poore people, appeareth before in thys storye.This Truchet was one of the principall authors of this warre, & one of the chiefest enemies of true religion, and of the poore Waldoys, that could then be founde. It was sayd also that hee vaunted & promised before, to the said lord of Trinitie, that he would deliuer into his hāds, the medow of Tour. But God soone brought hys proude bragge to nought, and for his spoyling, pillyng and polyng of the poore people, he lay spoyled and naked lyke a beast, in the wold mounteyne of Angrongne. Two of the