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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. Waidenses in Lomubbv. The name Pateriue was usually reckoned similar to the name Waldensian, aud was viewed by the Romanists as a term of reproach. When Lewis IV. emperor of Germany, the Bavarian, wished to defend those measures which had been carried on against John XX. and Robert king of Sicily, he traduced them as heretics and Paterines, and sentence having been reported, he condemned them to the fire, as St Antoninus writes. While the emperor called the pope a Patcrine aud a heretic, we find the pope issuing out laws against the Waldenses. "The crusades which had been tried against the heretics of Languedoc," says Hal lam, "were now preached against all who espoused a different party from the Roman See in the quarrels of Italy. Such were those directed at Frederic II. at Momfred," &c.f Leger relates that he finds a papal bull fulminated particularly against the Waldenses of the Valleys, by pope John XXIL whom he should call John XX. because the dates given by Leger, exactly correspond to John XX The bull is dated at Avignon the 8th July, in the sixteenth year of his pontificate, which, as Leger remarks, falls on the year 1332. It is addressed to the most Rev. John Badis, inquisitor general of the city and diocese of Mar ceil le, in which the said pope complains bitterly of thu, that in the Valleys of Lucerna, of Angrogna and of Perosa, "the Waldensiau sect" was so greatly multiplied, that they had driven the catholic rector from one of his parishes, and had threatened to kill the inquisitor. This bull is inserted at length in the book of tlie historical memoirs of M. A. Rorenco, prior of St Hoc. J The Pope uses the following terms: --" John, &c. to our beloved son, John de Badis, of the order of Minor Brothers, inquisitor...