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Title: The Vaudois of Piedmont
A Visit to their Valleys

Author: John Napper Worsfold

Release Date: November 4, 2008 [EBook #27135]

Language: English

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THE VAUDOIS OF PIEDMONT.

[Illustration: MAP OF THE VALLEYS OF PIEDMONT

_STANFORD'S GEOGL. ESTABT. LONDON._]

THE

VAUDOIS OF PIEDMONT:

A Visit to their Valleys,

WITH A SKETCH OF THEIR REMARKABLE HISTORY AS
A CHURCH AND PEOPLE

TO THE PRESENT DATE.

With Map of the Valleys.

BY

REV. J. N. WORSFOLD, M.A.,

_Vicar of Christ Church, Somers Town, London._

_"TRITUNTUR MALLEI REMANET INCUS."_

LONDON:

J. F. SHAW & CO., 48, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1873.

PREFACE.

An eminent living scholar, Dr. Tischendorf, has remarked, that in these
days there is need of "little books on great subjects." It was something of
that feeling which led me to the idea of supplementing the large and
learned works of Muston, Monastier, Gilly, and others, by a pocket volume,
so small that the tourist might not feel it an incumbrance, and yet so
comprehensive, that those who have not the leisure for larger works, might
obtain useful knowledge of the Waldenses.

Whether I shall have succeeded in this aim the public must judge.

I may, however, add that the absorbing nature of my parochial work has
prevented my doing justice to the subject, from a literary point of view,
and, therefore, I must ask my readers to kindly think of it merely as an
earnest desire to diminish somewhat of the lack of information which I have
discovered even among educated and benevolent persons, with regard to the
histo