Persecution of the Waldensian Brothers, in the Year 1365

In the year 1365, it is recorded that Pope Urban the Sixth charged all the prelates in France, and the inquisitors of the faith there, by an express bull, that they should not allow the heretics (the Waldenses, who were then called Beghards and Beguines) to live unpunished, but should exterminate these erring spirits (so he calls these pious people), together with their errors, with the sickle of ecclesiastical discipline. See the papistic writer Bzovius, for the year 1365, article 8; also the Calvinist Mellinus, second book, folio 488, column 1.

As to how the Waldenses in those times were called Beghards, and were persecuted, see A. M., same book, folio 479, below in the fourth column. [n485-1]

We have shown the confession of faith of these people in its proper place, and there is no need to repeat it.