places he wil reserve and chuse for that purpose, and accordingly
his Royal Highness did chuse places in Vale Luserna.) This
novelty puts the people into despair, and I know not what will
be the issue of it; we do wait, with great longing and hopes
for the new Mediators; but if under a pretence, that we have
not well acted, our friends do forsake us, Let them remember
that it is the thing our Adversaries do desire most, who to
that purpose have imployed all their craft and cunning. In
the mean time Diseases do continue, and many have not so
much as a winding-sheet for their dead. I heard but now,
that under pretence of a Well that hath been found a good
way from the Fort, they are enlarging the same by the half,
so that it takes up almost all the Mountain, and they say, That
there shall be placed six great Peeces therein, wherewith they
will be able to stop the whole passage or coming in of the
Valley of Angrogne. Mr. Masse (who sent us word, that he
had promised that no opposition should be made to the building
of the Fort, adding falsly, That he had done it by the order
of the Lords Ambassadors of Switzerland) was one of
the Deputies sent to Turin, for to urge the demolishing of the
Fort of La Tour, and a Cessation of building the other, In
observation of their promise to the Deputies at the Treaty,
which was, That there should be no For at all, and also to entreat
the said Ambassadors not to give the Letters, unless they
saw all things well establishing. Item, for to demand the things
promised concerning Bricheras, and withal a Confirmation
of the Decree, and of the Market to be at La Tour.
An Extract of another of Octob. 9. 1655.
If the Poten[unr]es do not continue their cares in the behalf of
these poor people, all the Protestant Churches in Europe shall
have cause to lament for the brethren of that Union, which did
rended them considerable; and it is feared, that in case any
others should be assaulted at home, they would find a great
coldness in those that were nothing but zeal heretofore.
From [unr]rancfort, September 29.
Sir, Four days before I went from Hanaw, which was on
the fist of this moneth, I wrote last, and told you, that I