Peter du Moulin
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Peter du Moulin was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the Huguenot
Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

 pastor Pierre du Moulin
Pierre Du Moulin
Pierre Du Moulin 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 minister in the Orleans area...

 and brother of Lewis du Moulin
Lewis Du Moulin
Lewis Du Moulin 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 The Hague
The Hague
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 in 1652, a royalist work defending Salmasius and including a strong attack on John Milton
John Milton
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.

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 Dunkirk, he was appointed to the living (refused by his father) of St John the Baptist's Church, Chester
St John the Baptist's Church, Chester
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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
Witherley
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, Leicestershire
Leicestershire
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, in 1633, and of Wheldrake
Wheldrake
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, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
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, in 1641. During the First English Civil War
First English Civil War
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 he was first in Ireland as tutor in the Boyle family, and was next tutor at Oxford
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 to the sons of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, 2nd Earl of Cork was Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier.-Early years:...

, Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan
Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan
Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, 3rd Baron Clifford, FRS , was a British peer and politician...

 and Richard Boyle (d. 1665), frequently preaching at St. Peter-in-the-East in Oxford
Oxford
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. He was rector of Adisham
Adisham
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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
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, was consequently unmolested, and was in 1656 made D.D. at Oxford.

At the Restoration he was rewarded by a chaplaincy to Charles II
Charles II of England
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 and by succeeding in 1660 to his father's prebend (Stall IV) at Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral
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. He took up his residence there, 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 styles him 'an honest, zealous Calvinist.'
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