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 Services, and treacherous Barbarity in that Massacre.

But not to be thought too prolix, in the Enumeration of such instances of the same Kind, during their Civil Wars in those Parts: I will only add that late and terrible Persecution, during the latter Part of the late Lewis's Reign; when he sent his Mission of Dragoons against the Camisars, commanded by the Mareschals de Villars, and Berwick; whose infamous Villanies, and unheard-of Cruelties, back'd by the scoffing Insolencies of Jesuits, and other Priests, has not been parallel'd in any Age.

I have here premised these foregoing Transactions, because I would not incur the Censure of Atheism, by ascribing too much this Pestilential Distemper to Second Causes, as some Physicians have already done in their late Books upon the same Subject; and I hope I may be the rather excused, in that I have not by more particular Recitals of all those other remote Regards I am acquainted with, drawn this Treatise, as I might have done, out into the needless Lengths of some Writers.

These Provinces in the Southern Parts of France, which are infected by the Plague, and at present lye miserably Waste, for want of People to manure and dress the Ground; gives me Occasion to publish some small Description of that Paradise of Europe: Whose Rh