daughters (who had been captured at Rora) if he would renounce his
"heresy," but threatening him if he refused with the severest treatment. To
this Janavello nobly replied, "That there were no torments so cruel, nor
death so barbarous, which he would not prefer to abjuration; that if the
marquis made his wife and daughters to pass through the fire, the flames
could only consume their bodies; that as for their souls, he commended them
to God, trusting them in His hands equally with his own, in case it should
please Him to permit his falling into the hands of the executioners."

Janavello's troop, led by himself and his lieutenant, Jahier, had many
successful contests with the enemy during the months of May, June, and
July. They captured the town of Secondo, occupied by their enemies, and
while putting to death large numbers of the Irish soldiers who had been
guilty of such enormities, they yet spared the sick, aged, and children,
unlike the treatment accorded to themselves. One of their chief services,
however, was to keep in check the garrison which had been placed in the
fort at La Torre. A splendid victory on the heights of Angrogna was sadly
clouded by a wound received by Janavello. For a time it was thought to be
mortal. However, Janavello, being removed to a distance, gradually
recovered; but a yet worse thing happened later in the day. Jahier, to whom
the command had been entrusted by Janavello, with the request to cease the
conflict for that evening, was induced by a traitor to disregard that
instruction, and fell, with fifty of his men, into an ambush of the enemy.
Jahier, his son, and all his companions but one, fell, covered with wounds,
and fighting with the courage of heroes. Leger speaks of Jahier as a
perfect captain, had it not have been for his imprudent boldness.

However, Janavello mercifully recovered from his wound, and when the
Vaudois, wearied beyond endurance by the cruelties inflicted upon them by
the successive governors of that fort at La Torre which had been most
unjustly restored in 1655 after its destruction by the French in 1593,
could no longer submit, the hero of Rora (notwithstanding a price was set
upon his head) assembled some two or three hundred patriots to resist the
plundering bands of De Bagnol and Paolo de Berges. Such was the terror
caused by these wretches that the people of Giovanni, La Torre, Rora, and
Lucerna, fled to the mountains on the French territory. Then, as if
disap