Peter du Moulin
Peter du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the
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, 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
He sided, like his father, with the royalists, and wrote the scurrilous reply to Milton, Regii Sanguinis Clamor, at the time mistakenly attributed to
At the Restoration he was rewarded by a chaplaincy to
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.
He translated his father's work, Tirannie que les papes ont exercé depuis quelque siècles sur les roys d'Angleterre [Tyranny that the Popes exercised for some centuries over the kings of England] (1674).
Notes
- ^ Robertson, Rev. Canon Scott (1882). "Forty rectors of Adisham". Archaeologia Cantiana. 14: 166–67.
- ^ John Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Series 1541-1857, III, iii. 23: 'Canon of 4th preb., Canterbury, 1660-1684', ([1]).
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Moulin, Peter du". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
