VALENCE, an arrondissement in the department of the Drome, in the south-east of France. It is thirty-five and a-half square miles in extent, is divided into ten cantons, distributed into 101 communes, and in 1836 contained 138,546 inhabitants. The capital of the same name stands on the left bank of the Rhone, is surrounded with walls, and has an ancient castle, in which pope Pius the sixth died in 1799. In 1836 it contained 10,967 inhabitants. They carry on cotton manufactories on a large scale, and make
See Stephen de Borbone, ut supra.
"Viduas, illiteratos, ineptos. Hii certa nusquam habent domicilia, bini et bini circumdantur: nudi pedes, laneis induti, habentes sibi communia tanquam Apostoli, nudi nudum Christum sequentes." See Gualt. Map. MS. Bodl.
Sunt certe temporibus nostris licet a nobis damnati et derisi, qui fidem servare velint et si ponantur ad rationem ut dudum, ponant manus suas pro pastore suo Domino Jesu." Ibid.
Liber secundus Alani insig. Theol. contra Vald. p. 175. edit. Par. 1612.
Moneta contra Valdenses, lib. v. * Petri Monachi Hist. Albig., p. 8. edit. Trever. 1615.
The Greek ritualists inform us that the sandal was a mark of sacerdotal dignity. Some very curious mistakes have occurred from the use of Xabatari and Sabatari applied to the followers of Valdo. The term is derived from sabat, a sandal.
Resurcus de Sectis Antiq. Her. c. 4, 5. Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. iv.
Valencia, gloves and silk hoes, and trade extensively in wine. Lat. 44. 55. 59. Long. 4. 47. 20. W.