Martyrs Mirror 442FURTHER SPREADING OF THE AFORESAID PERSE; CUTION, IN WHICH THE WALDENSES WERE BURNT IN GREAT NUMBERS, A. D. 1284

P. J. Twisck gives the following account for the year 1284: "The Waldois or Waldenses, of whom, since the year 1159, much mention is made, increased at this time more and more, in France and other countries of Christendom, notwithstanding that they were craftily sought and cruelly persecuted, and that all diligence and every means had first been employed, utterly to exterminate them; which greatly astonished certain bishops and advocates of Avignon of that time." "They were burnt," he writes, "in great numbers." Chron., fol. 611, 612, from Henr. Boxhorn, fol. 26.