[122] The sum collected in England was, in round numbers, £38,000. Of this, £16,000 was invested, on the security of the State, to pension pastors, schoolmasters, and students in the Valleys. This latter sum was appropriated by Charles II., on the pretext that he was not bound to implement the engagements of a usurper. [123] _The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piedmont_: containing a most exact Geographical Description of the place, and a faithful Account of the Doctrine, Life, and Persecutions of the ancient Inhabitants, together with a most naked and punctual Relation of the late bloody Massacre, 1655. By Samuel Morland, Esq., His Highness’ Commissioner Extraordinary for the Affairs of the said Valleys. London, 1658. [124] Leger, part ii., chap. 11, p. 186. [125] Leger, part ii., pp. 186-7. [126] Leger, part ii., p. 187. Muston, pp. 146-7. [127] Leger, part ii., p. 188. Muston, pp. 148-9. [128] Leger, part ii., p. 189. Monastier, p. 277. [129] Leger, part ii., p. 189. [130] Leger, part ii., p. 275. [131] Monastier, p. 311. [132] Monastier, p. 317. Muston, p. 199. [133] Muston, p. 200. [134] Muston, p. 202. [135] Monastier, p. 320. [136] Monastier, p. 336. [137] So named by the author of the _Rentrée_, from the village at its foot, but which without doubt, says Monastier (p. 349), “is either the Col Joli (7,240 feet high) or the Col de la Fénêtre, or Portetta, as it was named to Mr. Brockedon, who has visited these countries, and followed the same road as the Vaudois.” [138] Monastier, p. 352. [139] Monastier, p. 356. [140] Monastier, pp. 364-5. [141] The Author was conducted over the ground, and had all the memorials of the siege pointed out to him by two most trustworthy and intelligent guides--M. Turin, then Pastor of Macel, whose ancestors had figured in the “Glorious Return;” and the late M. Tron, Syndic of the Commune. The ancestors of M. Tron had returned with Henri Arnaud, and recovered their lands in the Valley of San Martino, and here had the family of M. Tron lived ever since, and the precise spots where the more memorable events of the war had taken place had been handed down from father to son. [142] Monastier, pp. 369, 370. [143] Cannon-balls are occasionally picked up in the neighbourhood of the Balsiglia. In 1857 the Author was shown one in the Presbytère of Pomaretto, which had been dug up a little before. [144] Monastier, p. 371.