[29] The Author was shown this pool when he visited the chasm. None of the Waldensian valleys is better illustrated by the sad, yet glorious, scenes of their martyrdom than this Valley of Angrogna. Every rock in it has its story. As you pass through it you are shown the spot where young children were dashed against the stones—the spot where men and women, stripped naked, were rolled up as balls, and precipitated down the mountain, and where, caught by the stump of tree, or projecting angle of rock, they hung transfixed, enduring for days the agony of a living death. You are shown the entrance of caves, into which some hundreds of the Vaudois having fled, their enemies, lighting a fire at the mouth of their hiding place, ruthlessly killed them all. Time would fail to tell even a tithe of what has been done and suffered in this famous pass.
[30] Muston, p. 11.
[31] Leger, livr. ii., p. 26.
[32] Ibid.
[33] Leger and Gilles say that it was Philip VII. who put an end to this war. Monastier says they “are mistaken, for this prince was then in France, and did not begin to reign till 1496.” This peace was granted in 1489.
[34] Monastier, Hist. of the Vaudois, p. 138.
[35] Monastier, Hist. of the Vaudois, p. 138.
[36] Gilles, p. 30. Monastier, p. 141.
[37] Ruchat, tom. iii., pp. 176, 557.
[38] Hist. of the Vaud., p. 146.