ant, et
semper amant antiqua. In Suaviam, Bavariam et Italiam borealem saepe
intrant illorum (ex Suicia) mercatores, qui biblia ediscunt memoriter,
et ritus ecclesiae aversantur, quos credunt esse novos. Nolunt imagines
venerari, reliquias sanctorum aversantur, olera comedunt, raro
masticantes carnem, alii nunquam. Appellamus eos idcirco Manichaeos.
Horum quidam ab Hungaria ad eos convenerunt, &c." It is a pity that the
quotation has been broken off, as it might have illustrated the
connexion of the Bulgarians with these sectaries.

[747] The Waldenses were always considered as much less erroneous in
their tenets than the Albigenses, or Manicheans. Erant praeterea alii
haeretici, says Robert Monachus in the passage above quoted, qui
Waldenses dicebantur, a quodam Waldio nomine Lugdunensi. Hi quidem mali
erant, sed comparatione aliorum haereticorum longe minus perversi; in
multis enim nobiscum conveniebant, in quibusdam dissentiebant. The only
faults he seems to impute to them are the denial of the lawfulness of
oaths and capital punishment, and the wearing wooden shoes. By this
peculiarity of wooden sandals (sabots) they got the name of Sabbatati or
Insabbatati. (Du Cange.) William du Puy, another historian of the same
time, makes a similar distinction. Erant quidam Ariani, quidam Manichaei,
quidam etiam Waldenses sive Lugdunenses, qui licet inter se dissidentes,
omnes tamen in animarum perniciem contra fidem Catholicam conspirabant;
et illi quidem Waldenses contra alios acutissime disputant. Du Chesne,
t. v. p. 666. Alanus, in his second book, where he treats of the
Waldenses, charges them principally with disregarding the authority of
the church and preaching without a regular mission. It is evident
however from the acts of the Inquisition, that they denied the existence
of purgatory; and I should suppose that, even at that time, they had
thrown off most of the popish system of doctrine, which is so nearly
connected with clerical wealth and power. The difference made in these
records between the Waldenses and the Manichean sects shows that the
imputations cast upon the latter were not indiscriminate calumnies. See
Limborch, p. 201 and 228.

The History of Languedoc, by Vaissette and Vich, contains a very good
account of the sectaries in that country; but I have not immediate
access to the book. I believe that proof will be found of the
distinction between the Waldenses and Albigenses in t. iii. p. 446. But
I am sati