History of the Waldenses

by J. A. Wylie

CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO., BELLE SAUVAGE WORKS, LONDON, E.C.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Petrus Damianus, Opusc., p. 5. Allix, Churches of Piedmont, p. 113. M’Crie, Hist. of Reform. in Italy, p. 2.

[2] Recent German criticism refers the Nobla Leyçon to a later date, but still one anterior to the Reformation.

[3] The new and elegant temple of the Waldenses now rises near the foot of the Castelluzzo.

[4] This short description of the Waldensian valleys is drawn from the author’s personal observations.

[5] This disproves the charge of Manicheism brought against them by their enemies.

[6] Sir Samuel Morland gives the Nobla Leyçon in full in his History of the Churches of the Waldenses. Allix (chap. 18) gives a summary of it.

[7] The Nobla Leyçon has the following passage:—“If there be an honest man, who desires to love God and fear Jesus Christ, who will neither slander, nor swear, nor lie, nor commit adultery, nor kill, nor steal, nor avenge himself of his enemies, they presently say of such a one he is a Vaudés, and worthy of death.”

[8] See a list of numerous heresies and blasphemies charged upon the Waldenses by the Inquisitor Reynerius, who wrote about the year 1250, and extracted by Allix (chap. 22).