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XXVII. Observations on the persons called Waldenses, who were formerly Tenants of the Manor of Darenth, in the County of Kent, By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S. in a letter to the Rev. Mr. Brand, Secretary

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In the Custumale Roffense lately published by Mr, Thorpe, under the title, Jurati de Derente; de consuetudinibus et redditibus, p. 5, col. 2. are mentioned the rents due and services to be performed by a class of tenants styled Waldenses; and in this paper, which I will trouble you to communicate to our Society, it is my purpose to hazard a conjecture who might be the persons here meant. A few months ago, when I cursorily hinted the subject to you, it seemed to be your opinion, if I did not misapprehend it, that they might have been natives of the Weald of Kent or of Wales; but I must own, their having acquired this name from either incident appears to me to be not a little questionable.

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page 294 note [a] Wilkins, Concil. Magn. Britan. I. p. 438.

page 294 note [b] P. 20.

page 294 note [c] P. 223.

page 294 note [d] Hist. of England by Tindal, fol. edit. v. I. p. 350.

page 294 note [e] History of the Life of Henry II. 8vo. edit. iv. p. 113, 392.

page 295 note [f] Cent. xii. part ii. v. 3. Xi. note g.

page 295 note [g] “Christianos se esse, et doctrinam apostolicam venerari responderunt. Interrogati per ordinem de sacræ fidei articulis; de substantia quidem supremi medicirecta, de cjus vero remediis, quibus humanæ infirmitati mederi dignatur, id est, divinis sacramentis, perversa dixerunt; sacrum baptisma, eucharistiam, conjugium detestantes.”

The words printed in Italics in this extract are not noticed by Lord Lyttelton.

The passage is rendered as follows by Rapin, Collier, and Dr. Henry.

By Rapin; being questioned upon the articles of the creed, their replies were very orthodox as to the Trinity, and Incarnation.

By Collier in Ecclesiastical History, v. i. p. 347. They answered, that they were Christians, and that the doctrine of the Apostles was their rule of faith.

Bat being thrown off this general answer, and questioned more particularly about the creed, they seemed sufficiently orthodox about the Trinity and Incarnation.

By Dr. Henry, in History of England, vol. III. p 241. Upon a more particular inquiry it was found, that they denied several of the received doctrines of the church, as purgatory prayers for the dead, and the invocation of saints.

page 297 note [g] Decem Script. p. 104. 512. 519.

page 297 note [h] Tanner Biblioth. Britan. & Hibern. p. 595, ex Lelando.

page 298 note [i] Iisdem diebus.

page 300 note [k] John, bishop of Chartres. Dupin's Eccles. Hist. 12 Cent. p. 17.

page 300 note [l] Hoveden, Annal. p. 299.

page 301 note [m] Publicani comburebantur in pluribus locis per regnum Franciæ, quod rex nullo modo fieri permisit in terra sua, licet ibi essent perplurimi. Annales. p. 352. b. sub ann. 1182. This incident, though so much to the credit of Henry II. is, I think, unnoticed by his noble Biographer.

page 301 note [n] Life of Bishop Pecock, p. 176.

page 301 note [o] Discrimen sanguinis et mortes hominum exhorrescens. L. iii, c. xxvi. p. 342.

page 303 note [p] Lord Lyttelton's Hist. of Henry II. ii. p. 288, 353, 380. Triveti Annales, i. p. 28.

page 304 note [q] Custumale Roffense, p. 5. & 9.

page 304 note [r] History of Kent, p. 92.

page 305 note [s] Bibliothec. Topogr. Britan. N° xxvii. Appendix, N° 1. Registrum Roffense, by Mr. Thorpe, p. 270.

page 310 note [t] W. Neubrig. edit. Hearne. Picardi Notæ. Solitaria litera E. deerat in vetusto codice Anglicano, quem notamus literis, v. c. Hæc autem litera E. signat Ealdredum, Capgravio Etheldredum dictum, abbatem Rievallis.

page 311 note [u] Literas sanctitatis vestræ suscepi, quibus mihi. studium et operam rerum memorabilium, quæ nostris temporibus copiosius provenerunt, ad notiriam cautelamque posterorum conscribendarum dignatur ingerere. Ibid. Dedicat. p. 1. Nostris autem temporibus tanta et tam memorabilia contigerunt, ut modernorum negligentia culpanda merito censeatur, si litterarum monimentis ad memoriam sempiternam mandata non fuerint. Et forte hoc opus ab aliquo seu aliquibus jam inchoatum est. Proem. p. 14.

page 312 note [x] X Script. c. 337—414.

page 312 note [y] Nempe Gulielmum nostrum obtulisse tantum Ealredo primum hujus historiæ librum et aliquot 2 lib. capita. Nec huic observationi prospicio quicquam obstare. Nam quod quinque reliquerit multis annis excedentes obitum Ealredi, coegit promissum, epistola nuncupatoria, ceu fide publica subnixum. Picard. Not. p. 602.

page 313 note [z] Ernaldus, sic enim Iegendum (non E. tantummodo ut in editionibus aliis) abbas Rievallis, qui ad opus aggrediendum impulit, cuique proinde dicavit consecravitque, licet librum primum, et aliquot libri secundi capitula duntaxat eidem offerre permissus fuerit, jam mortuo antequam ad umbilicum duceretur totum opus, ut rectee Nicholao Rievallensi observavit Picardus. Hearne Præfat. p. xiii.

page 314 note [a] Vacavit pastorali providentia eadem ecclesia per annos fere decem et septem; id est, ab anno ejusdem regis quarto decimo usque ad tricesimum.

page 314 note [b] Ira regis excanduit, multorum et enormium malorum quæ fecuta noscuntur insame principium, p. 156. fervor regius accenderetur ex quo tot mala postmodum pullullasse noscuntur.

page 314 note [c] Annales, p. 299.

page 315 note [d] Denique ergo processu temporis cum fama isla crebesceret, quendam virum magnum et grandævum, Rievallis monasterii monachum, jam valetudinarium et morti vicinum, qui eo tempore Eboracensis ecclesiæ canonicus, et memorato archiepiscopo familiaris extiterat, super hoc cum adjurationibus percunctandum putavi, qui constanter respondit, hoc esse mendacissimum conceptæ a quibusdam opinionis commentum.

page 316 note [e] De rebus angustis ad magnam jam amplitudinem peryenerunt sub patre Rogerio, mirandæ sinceritatis viro, qui aahuc superstes est, in senecta uberi, administrationis suœ annis circiter quanquaginta et septem exphtis: fuit autem monasterii bujus initium post venerabilis Turstini decessum.

page 316 note [f] Cujus anno primo ego Willelmus, servorum Christi minimus, et in Adam primo ad mortem sum natus, et in secundo ad vitam renatus. Proem.ad fig.

page 317 note [g] Litteræ capitales solitarie positæ sunt nomina prædictorum cœnobiarcharum. Ter denis, ternisque simul S. præfuit annis, p. 602.

page 317 note [h] Præfat. p. cxxi

page 318 note [i] Viri venerabiles, quibus mos gerendus est, hoc ipsum, et meæ parvitati dignantur injungere, ut et ego, quia cum divitibus non possum, saltem cum paupercula vidua aliquid de tenuitate mea mittam in gazophylacium domini. Proem. p. 14.

page 318 note [k] Nostræ enim parvitati nequaquam conceditur de tanti viri actibus temere judioare, lib. ii. c. 25. p. 185.