Samuel Morland, an English diplomat and scholar, was sent to Piedmont in 1655 by Oliver Cromwell's government to investigate the massacre of the Waldensians and press the Duke of Savoy's government to stop it. His resulting book, published in London in 1658, compiles a village by village account of the killings from testimony and records gathered on the ground within weeks of the massacre, alongside a broader history of Waldensian belief and earlier persecution and a narrative of the diplomatic response through 1658. It remains the primary contemporary documentary source for the massacre's toll and course.
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PublisherHenry Hills for Adoniram Byfield, London, 1658 1 Publication Year URLhttps://archive.org/details/historyofevangel00morl 1 Assessment
Reliability TierA contemporary investigator's account compiled on the ground within weeks of the massacre by a government envoy sent specifically to document it, whose village by village casualty list remains the source every later account of the toll works from or against. Sources
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