Swiss envoys appealing to Oliver Cromwell for help for the Waldenses aka Waldensians, after the massacre known as the Piedmont Easter, by the Duke of Savoy in 1654. The Waldensians were a Christian movement founded by Peter Waldo in the 12th century, the Duke of Savoy wished to convert them to Catholicism. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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