In the early 17th century English-speaking scholars took great interest in Waldensian history. James Ussher, later to become Archbishop of Armagh, published an important monograph in 1613. Meanwhile French Protestant scholars collected an archive of manuscripts originating both from the barbes (from a collection in the Val Pragelato) and from the inquisition at Embrun, seized during the Wars of Religion in the 1580s. When Samuel Morland went to Savoy to express Oliver Cromwell’s displeasure at the 1655 massacre, he collected a large archive of these manuscript books, through connections with the Vaudois pastor Jean Léger, and some Genevan Protestant ministers.
Most of these manuscripts ended up in the Cambridge University Library. James Ussher, very late in life, appears to have asked Morland for anything else that he could find. Some copies of the Cambridge manuscripts were sent to the library of Trinity College, Dublin; but some originals also found their way to Dublin, most importantly MS 259, the dossier of the correspondence between barbe Morel and Oecolampadius and Bucer, which also contains the notes of the disputation in Angrogna from 1532. The libraries in Cambridge and Dublin remain some of the most important repositories for Waldensian history.