[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). [9] _The Romaunt Version of the Gospel according to John, from MS. preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, and in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Paris._ By William Stephen Gilly, D.D., Canon of Durham, and Vicar of Norham. Lond., 1848. [10] Stranski, _apud_, Lenfant’s _Concile de Constance_, quoted by Count Valerian Krasinski in his _History of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Reformation in Poland_, vol. i., p. 53; Lond., 1838. Illyricus Flaccius, in his _Catalogus Testium Veritatis_ (Amstelodami, 1679), says: “Pars Valdensium in Germaniam transiit atque apud Bohemos, in Polonia ac Livonia sedem fixit.” Leger says that the Waldenses had, about the year 1210, Churches in Slavonia, Sarmatia, and Livonia. (_Histoire Générale des Eglises Evangéliques des Vallées du Piedmont ou Vaudois_, vol. ii., pp. 336, 337; 1669.) [11] M’Crie, _Hist. Ref. in Italy_, p. 4. [12] Compare Antoine Monastier, _History of the Vaudois Church_, p. 121 (Lond., 1848), with Alexis Muston, _Israel of the Alps_, p. 8 (Lond., 1852). [13] Monastier, _Hist. Vaudois Church_, p. 123. [14] Monastier, p. 123. [15] _Ibid._ [16] Monastier, p. 123. [17] _Histoire Générale des Eglises Evangéliques des Vallées de Piedmont, ou Vaudoises._ Par Jean Leger. Part ii., pp. 6, 7. Leyden, 1669. Monastier, pp. 123, 124.