God, by His Holy Spirit, has inspired my brother Cavalier and me with the purpose of entering your town in a few days; however strongly you fortify yourselves, the children of God will bear away the victory.

If ye doubt this, come in your numbers, ye soldiers of St.Etienne, Barre, and Florac, to the field of Domergue; we shall be there to meet you.

Come, ye hypocrites, if your hearts fail not.
"COMTE ROLAND." The second letter was no less violent.

It was as follows:-- "We, Comte Roland, general of the Protestant troops of France assembled in the Cevennes in Languedoc, enjoin on the inhabitants of the town of St.Andre of Valborgne to give proper notice to all priests and missionaries within it, that we forbid them to say mass or to preach in the afore-mentioned town, and that if they will avoid being burnt alive with their adherents in their churches and houses, they are to withdraw to some other place within three days.
"COMTE ROLAND." Unfortunately for the cause of the king, though the rebels met with some resistance in the villages of the plain, such as St.Germain and St.
Andre, it was otherwise with those situated in the mountains; in those, when beaten, the Protestants found cover, when victorious rest; so that M.de Montrevel becoming aware that while these villages existed heresy would never be extirpated, issued the following ordinance:-- "We, governor for His most Christian Majesty in the provinces of Languedoc and Vivarais, do hereby make known that it has pleased the king to command us to reduce all the places and parishes hereinafter named to such a condition that they can afford no assistance to the rebel troops; no inhabitants will therefore be allowed to remain in them.

His Majesty, however, desiring to provide for the subsistence of the afore-mentioned inhabitants, orders them to conform to the following regulations.