a town of Spain, in the province of La Mancha and the partido de Ciudad Real, of which partido it is the capital. It is surrounded with walls, is well built, having a college, three churches, nine monasteries and five hospitals, with about 9000 inhabitants. It has some manufactures of gloves and woollen goods, and some tan-

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1 A very able pamphlet was published in 1829, by Count Ferdinand dal Porzo, late Maitre des Requetes, and First President of the imperial Court of Genoa, entitled “The complete Emancipation of the Vaudois advocated.” In this the author maintains, that by the treaty of Paris, May 31, 1814, the Valdenses were put in possession of all the rights acquired by the inhabitants of Piedmont under the French dominion, and that, in violation of these rights, there are no Protestants now in Europe, in so low and degraded a position as they.

2 See Orders of the House of Commons, 15th May 1832, and Returns to an Address to his Majesty, dated 24th January 1832.

3 These, 1st, prohibit the Valdenses from acquiring landed property beyond certain limits, and from exercising certain professions; 2nd forbid them to make proselytes themselves, or to offer any opposition to the conversion of Protestants by Roman Catholics; 3rd, prevent their reclaiming their own children, when they have been taken into Roman catholic hospices or convents; 4th, prohibit the augmentation of churches or ministers of religion, even within their own valleys.