ment: and hauyng sent backe one whiche conducted him, was murdered soone after, at the foote of Angrongne, by ij. of Angrongne, whiche otherwise seemed to be honest, and of good parentage. Soone after, one of the ij. whiche had committed this facte, entred into the Medowe of Tour, & was immediatly apprehended & bound. He confessed the facte, without any further delay. Immediatly the other also was taken.

The Waldoys were maruelously troubled and agreued with this fact, and wrote to the Lord of Raconis, declaryng vnto him the whole circumstaūce of the fact, and that they had the offenders in warde, and that, if it would please him to send certeine to examine the matter, they for their part, would so execute iustice, in the punishment of them, that their innocencie to all men should appeare. The Lord of Raconis, wrote vnto them, that they should deliuer vnto him þ^e offenders, and that he would do such iustice vpon them, as the cause required. MarginaliaThe iuste dealing of the Angronians.To the whiche they of Angrongne aunswered, that vpō three condiciōs, they should be deliuered, accordyng to hys request. First that the prisoners should be compelled to do nothyng agaynst their consciences, and as touchyng religion, nothyng should be spoken vnto them, but out of the worde of God. Secondly that spedy, and sharpe Iustice should be executed vpon them: and that hereafter this should be no preiudice to the liberties and priuileges of the people of Angrongne. The third that the execution of thē should be vpon the borders of Angrongne, for an example to all other. This being accorded with one assent (yea without contradiction of their parentes) they sent them prisoners accompanyed with thre score gonners, to the confines of Luserne, and there deliuered them into the handes of the Lord of Raconis. This redounded to the great commendation of them of Angrongne.

After this the Lord of Trinitie, hauing left certein Garisions about Angrongne, and the valley of Luserne: went to Perouse, nere to the Valley of S. Martin, to succour the Garrison there, being in great daūger, and there remayned a moneth. Duryng whiche time, they of Angrongne, and of the Valley of Luserne, lyued in more quietnes thē afore: MarginaliaScarsenes of vitaile among the Angronians.but yet they were so afflicted, by reason of the scarcitie of vitailes, whiche sore pressed them, and namely those of the Medowe of Tour, for they were spoyled of their vitailes. This poore people liued with milke and with herbes, hauyng very litle bread. MarginaliaGods mercye towarde hys people.But afterwardes, when they were euen like to bee famished, God of his goodnes, sent them better succour, both of corne & bread, then they had before. The enemies thought to haue takē the Medow of Tour by famine: for they tooke away the vitailes that were to bee had in all places rounde about. Euery houshold was suffered to haue no more, then should susteine thē that day, and that also was very litle: to the end þ^t they should not succour this poore people.

After that, the Lorde of Trinitie MarginaliaNote how this bloudye wretch pretending agreement, peace, and quietnes: immediatly seeketh the destruction of this poore people.beyng returned from Perouse to Luserne, sent certeine to entreate of an agreement, and required to common with some of the people. Then they beganne to consulte and deuise by all meanes, how they might come to some good agreemēt. But on Mondaye beyng the xvij. daye of Aprill, by breake of day, hee sent certeine bandes of Spanyardes, whiche hee had there, with the Garrison of Tour, to the mountaine of Tailleret, by that way whiche leadeth to the Medow of Tour, on the South side. MarginaliaThe people of Tailleret cruelly murdered of the Spanyardes.They murdered mē, wemen and children of Tailleret, whom they founde in in their beddes. Then they marched on along vpon the mountaine, towardes the Medow of Tour. Anone after the people perceiued ij. other cōpanies of souldiers marchyng by Angrongne, by ij. seuerall wayes, to assaulte the Medow of Tour. MarginaliaThe trumpettes of the Waldoys.In the mornyng, as soone as they rose, they blew their hornes, for they sawe the Spanyardes already entred. When they had made their prayers, euery man ranne to meete the enemyes, some on the East side, & the other on the South. They which first resisted the Spanyardes (who were already past the bulwarkes) were in the begynnyng, but xij. gunners, and a fewe other, whom they caused to go vp to the hill, and role downe great stones. These xij. hauing foūd a fitte place for their purpose to stay þ^e Spanyardes, begā to shoote of their harquebushes at them. MarginaliaThe Spainardes beaten backe.The Spanyardes seyng them selues so sore assailed both aboue and beneath, and the place so narrow, and so strait, reculed backe, and retired as fast as they could, by the same way, by the whiche they came. If they had taried a litle longer, they had ben enclosed betwene the ij. mountaines: whiche place was so straite that they could not haue escaped. The people chased thē vnto their campe, whiche was at Tour. As they fled, they found often, some Fortes, where they did resiste for a litle while: but they were alway beaten out. MarginaliaGod geueth victorye to the Waldoys, against the Spanyardes.In this combate God gaue victorie to the poore Waldoys, with great slaughter of the Spanyardes: where also very many of them were sore hurt and wounded.

The sayd L. of Trinitie sent vnto the Spanyardes, that they should not faynt and giue ouer, but sticke to it lyke men, and he would shortly send them succour: but they would not. Those of the Valley of Luserne, hearyng of this cōflict, came in the meane time, to helpe their neighbours. Amongest other, there was one slayne in that battaile, for whom the L. of Trinitie much lamented, saying that he would rather haue lost a whole bande, then that man. The other ij. companies, whiche marched by Angrongne, perceiuyng the Spanyardes to bee so beaten and put to flight, and seyng also those of the Medow of Tour commyng to encounter with them, retired in hast. Vpon that, the Lord of Trinitie went to Cauors, three myles frō Luserne, beyng in a great perplexitie: and as hee was about to send succour to the Spanyardes, he heard the sound of a drumme aboue Luserne, and suspected that there was an armye of the Waldoys commyng against hym. MarginaliaGod taketh the hartes frō hys enemyes.Vppon this, diuers of the souldiers fled away by the playne, crying that all was lost. It was certeinly reported that if the Waldoys had pursued the armye, as they might easely haue done, the campe had that day, ben chased out of Luserne. The poore people lacked no courage so to do: for albeit they had neither eaten nor drunkē, all that day before, & had sore traueiled & fought: MarginaliaGod geueth courage to the poore Waldoys.yet they sayd, that if they had but a litle refreshed thē selues with a morsell of bread, & a glasse of wine, they durst take vpon thē, to enter into the campe of their enemyes.

Within a few dayes after, they of Angrongne were aduertised by the Lord of Trinities letters, that he fully determined to cut downe their trees, and vynes, and destroy their corne beyng on the ground: and furthermore, that two Fortes shoulde be builded at Angrongne. The daye was assigned, and horsemen appoynted, with all speede to execute thys mischieuous enterprise. The poore people thought that they should be assailed as sore as euer they were, and fight as hard as euer they did before. But God preuented this cruell attempte. MarginaliaThe mischieuous purpose of Trinitie, stayed by the prouidence of God.For the night afore that this should bee executed, the Lord of Trinitie receaued certeine letters from the Duke, whiche stayed this enterprise. They of þ^e Medow of Tour, beyng aduertised that the Lord of Trinitie did nowe entend to send ordinaunce to beate downe the bulwarkes, whiche were made of stones: they made a Bulwarke of earth, whiche was in compasse, aboute fyue hundreth pases: Whiche they might easely see from Luserne. They of the Medowe of Tour told the Lord of Trinities men, that if they brought any artillary, they should not so soone cary it awaye agayne, and shortly, the ordinaunce was sent backe agayne.

MarginaliaThe Waldoys send a supplication to the Duchesse.About this ceason, the chiefe Rulers and Ministers of the Waldoys requested earnestly, the Lord of Raconis, to present a supplication whiche they had made, to the Duchesse of Sauoye. For they had intelligence that she was sore offended, that her subiectes were so cruelly handled. In the whiche supplication they declared the equitie of their cause, protestyng all due obediēce to the Duke their souereigne Lord: MarginaliaThe Waldoys offer to be iudged by the worde of God.and if it might bee proued by the pure word of God, that they held any errour, they would with all humble submission, receiue correction and bee reformed, humbly besechyng her grace to appease the displeasure, whiche the Duke had conceaued agaynst them, by the vntrue surmises of their aduersaries: and if there were any thyng wherin they had offēded him, they most humbly craued his gracious pardon.

MarginaliaThe L. of Trinitie sore sicke.About this tyme, the Lord of Trinitie, by sicknes, was in great daunger of hys life. Soone after the supplicatiō was deliuered: the Duchesse sent an aunswere to the Waldoys, by the sayd Lord of Raconis. The effect therof was, that she had obteined of the Dukes grace, all that they demaunded in their supplication, vpon such conditions as the sayd Lord Raconis would propound vnto them. MarginaliaAn other supplicatiō sent to the Duchesse.But when they vnderstode that the sayd condiciōs were very rigorous, they sent an other supplication vnto the Duchesse, wherein they humbly besought her grace to be a meane, that the sayd condicions and Articles might be moderated: whiche Articles here folow.

First, that they should banishe their Ministers.

Secondly that they should receaue the Masse, and other ceremonies of the Romishe Churche.