Note 263 — PART III FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE PRESENT TIMES

See Milton's Sonnet XVIII., On the late Massacre in Piedmont, beginning—

This was in 1655. In the following year Cromwell, to whom the persecuted Vaudois subjects of the Duke of Savoy had appealed, interposed in their behalf. Nearly £40,000 were collected in England for their relief.—Ed.