William
Stephen Gilly was a Church of England priest who come to the valleys to
meet and bring help to the Vaudois, protestant inhabitants of the
valleys. Like
this,in
his "Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont and
researches among the vaudois, or waldenses protestant inhabitants of
the Cottian Alps" he introduces the
inhabitants of the Vallyes to the reader in 1823.