At first they submitted sullenly to the
[Footnote 1: These were the four districts of Angrogna, Villaro, Bobbio,
and Rorata.--Siri, del Mercurio, overo Historia de' Correnti Tempi Firenze,
1682, tom. xv. p. 827.]
[Footnote 2: Gilles, Pastore de la Terre, p. 72, Geneve, 1644; and Rorengo,
Memorie Historiche, p. 8, 1649.]
[Footnote 3: The decree of Gastaldo is in Morland, History of the
Evangelical Churches in the valleys of Piedmont, p. 303. The grounds of
that decree are at p. 408, the objections to it at p. 423. See also Siri,
xv. 827, 830; Chiesa, Corona Reale di Savoia, i. 150; Denina, iii. 324;
Guichenon, iii. 139.]
[Sidenote a: A.D. 1655 June 19.]
judgment of Gastaldo, but sent deputies to Turin, to remonstrate; in a
few days a solemn fast was proclaimed; the ministers excommunicated every
individual who should sell his lands in the disputed territory; the natives
of the valleys under the dominion of the king of France met those of the
valleys belonging to the duke of Savoy; both bound themselves by oath to
stand by each other in their common defence; and messengers were despatched
to solicit aid and advice from the church of Geneva and the Protestant
cantons of Switzerland. The intelligence alarmed the Marquess of Pianeze,
the chief minister of the duke; who, to suppress the nascent confederacy,
marched from Turin with an armed force, reduced La Torre, into which the
insurgents had thrown a garrison of six hundred men, and, having made an
offer of pardon to all who should submit, ordered his troops to fix their
quarters in Bobbio, Villaro, and the lower part of Angrogna.
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