Five Men and Three Women Burnt at Troyes

About two years after Pope Innocent the Third had issued those three bloody letters for the persecution and suppression of the true, defenseless Christians, who were commonly called Waldenses, but by their enemies or persecutors, publicans and sinners, it happened, in the last year of the twelfth century, namely in the year 1200, that in the city of Troyes, in Champagne, eight persons were arrested by order of the pope and the ruling authorities, five men and three women, who made the same confession as was stated above regarding the Waldenses, contradicting the authority of the pope, infant baptism, the swearing of oaths, and the office of criminal authority, and whom the papistic author of the large Chronicle of the Netherlands calls Popelitatnos.

However, these persons were not accused by the papists of any evil works, but simply because of their faith; and in that faith they desired to remain steadfast until death, without departing from it in any way. So they were all sentenced to the fire in that same year, and offered up their bodies to God as a burnt sacrifice, having commended their souls into His hands.