Peter du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the

Huguenot The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...

pastor

Pierre du Moulin Pierre Du Moulin ( Latinized as Petrus Molinaeus; 16 October 1568 – 10 March 1658) was a Huguenot minister in France who also resided in England for some years. Life Born in Buhy in 1568, he was the son of Joachim Du Moulin, a Protestant min ...

and brother of

Lewis du Moulin Lewis Du Moulin (''Ludovicus Molinaeus''; pseudonym: ''Ludiomaeus Colvinus''; 1606–1680) was a French Huguenot physician and controversialist, who settled in England. He became Camden Professor of History at the University of Oxford. Life ...

. He was the anonymous author of ''Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus paricidas Anglicanos'', published at

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in 1652, a royalist work defending Salmasius and including a strong attack on

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and politica ...

Life

He was born at Paris on 24 April 1601. After studying at Sedan and Leyden, he spent time at Cambridge, where he received the degree of D.D. About 1625, after an imprisonment at

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, he was appointed to the living (refused by his father) of

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, but there is no record of his having resided there. In 1640, however, on becoming D.D. at Leyden, he described himself as holding that benefice. He was rector of Witherley,

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, in 1633, and of Wheldrake,

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, in 1641. During the

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he was first in Ireland as tutor in the Boyle family, and was next tutor at

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to the sons of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington,

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and Richard Boyle (d. 1665), frequently preaching at St. Peter-in-the-East in

. He was rector of

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, Kent, from 1646 (with a short intermission in 1660 on the reinstatement of John Oliver) till his death. He sided, like his father, with the royalists, and wrote the scurrilous reply to Milton, ''Regii Sanguinis Clamor'', at the time mistakenly attributed to Alexander More. Du Moulin concealed his authorship until the Restoration, was consequently unmolested, and was in 1656 made D.D. at Oxford. At the Restoration he was rewarded by a chaplaincy to Charles II and by succeeding in 1660 to his father's

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(Stall IV) at

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John Le Neve John Le Neve (1679–1741) was an English antiquary, known for his '' Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ'' ("Feasts of the Anglican Church"), a work of English church biography which has been published in many subsequent editions. Origins He was born on 2 ...

, ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae'', Series 1541-1857, III, iii. 23: 'Canon of 4th preb., Canterbury, 1660-1684',

. He took up his residence there. Du Moulin died 10 October 1684, and was buried in the Cathedral. Another brother, Cyrus, was for a time French pastor at Canterbury.

Works

He published ''A Treatise of Peace and Contentment of the Soul'' (1657),
A vindication of the sincerity of the protestant religion in the point of obedience to sovereigns
' (1679) and about twenty other works in English, French, and Latin.

Anthony à Wood Anthony Wood (17 December 1632 – 28 November 1695), who styled himself Anthony à Wood in his later writings, was an English antiquary. He was responsible for a celebrated ''Hist. and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon''. Early life Anthony W ...

styles him "an honest, zealous Calvinist".

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* ;Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Du Moulin, Peter 1601 births 1684 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests French Anglican priests French emigrants to the Kingdom of England Clergy from Paris People from Adisham