and the Low Countries, whom the King’s enemies did chiefly labour to seduce and misinform.  To pay my vow, I first made this book” [entitled originally “Apologie de la Religion Reformee, et de la Monarchie et de I’Eglise d’Angleterre, contre les Calomnies de la Ligue Rebelle de quelques Anglois et Ecossois”; but in an imperfect English translation the title was afterwards changed into “History of the Presbyterians”, and in the second French edition, on a copy of which Du Moulin was now writing, it became “Histoire des Nouveaux Presbyteriens, Anglois et Ecossois"]—­which was begun “at York, during the siege [i.e.  June 1644, just before Marston Moor], in a room whose chimney was beaten down by the cannon while I was at my work; and, after the siege and my expulsion from my Rectory at Wheldrake, it was finished in an underground cellar, where I lay hid to avoid warrants that were out against me from committees to apprehend me and carry me prisoner to Hull.  Having finished the book, I sent it to be printed in Holland by the means of an officer of the Master of the Posts at London, Mr. Pompeo Calandrini, who was doing great and good services to the King in that place.  But, the King being dead, and the face of public businesses altered, I sent for my MS. out of Holland, and reformed it for the new King’s service.  And it was printed, but very negligently, by Samuel Browne at the Hague [1649?] ...  Much about the same time I set out my Latin Poem, Ecclesiae Gemitus (’Groans of the Church’), with, a long Epistle to all Christians in the defence of the King and the Church of England; and, two years after [1652], Clamor Regii Sanguinis ad Coelum.  God blessed these books, and gave them the intended effect, the disabusing of many misinformed persons.  And it was so well resented by his Majesty, then at Breda, that, being showed my sister Mary among a great company of ladies, he brake the crowd to salute her, and tell her that he was very sensible of his obligations to her brother, and that, if ever God settled him in his kingdom, he would make him know that he was a grateful prince.”  Here, then, in Dr. Peter Du Moulin’s own hand, though not till after the Restoration, we have the Regii Sanguinis Clamor claimed as his, with the information that it was one of a series of books written by him with the special design of maintaining the cause of Charles II. and discrediting the Commonwealth among Continental Protestants.[3]

[Footnote 1:  See close of Animadversions on the Remonstrant’s Defence.]

[Footnote 2:  Wood’s Fasti, II. 125-126; Whitlocke, II. 290.  The writings of Lewis Du Moulin I have here mentioned are known to me only by the titles and descriptions given by Wood and his annotator Dr. Bliss.]