[Footnote 3:  Wood’s Fasti, II. 195; and Gentleman’s Magazine for 1773, pp. 369-370.  In the last is given the autobiographic sketch of Du Moulin, transcribed from the copy of his Histoire des Nouveaux Presbyteriens (edit. 1660) in the Canterbury Library.—­The Mary du Moulin, the sister of Peter and Lewis, mentioned in the autobiographic sketch, died at the Hague in Feb. 1699, having, like most of the Du Moulins, attained a great age.  The father, Dr. Peter the elder, died in 1658 at the age of ninety; Lewis died in 1683 at the age of seventy-seven; and Peter the younger, of the Regii Sanguinis Clamor, died in 1684 at the age of eighty-four.—­The reader will have noted the Pompeo Calandrini mentioned as an official in the London Post Office in the time of the Civil War, and as secretly aiding Charles I. in his correspondence.  He was, doubtless, of the Italian-Genevese family of Calandrinis already mentoned, ante pp. 172-173 and footnote.]

Yet farther proof on the subject, also from Dr. Peter’s own hand.  In the Library of Canterbury Cathedral there is, or was, his own copy of the original edition of the Regii Sanguinis Clamor; and in that copy the preliminary Dedicatory Epistle in Ulac’s name to Charles II. is marked for deletion, and has these words prefixed to it in Du Moulin’s hand; “Epistola, quam aiunt esse Alexandri Mori, quae mihi valde non probatur” ("Epistle which they say is by Alexander Morus, and which is not greatly to my taste"),[1] All the rest, therefore, was his own.  But, to remove all possible doubt, we have the still more complete and exact information furnished by him in 1670, Milton then still alive and in the first fame of his Paradise Lost.  In that year there appeared from the Cambridge University Press a volume entitled Petri Molinaei P. F. [Greek:  Parerga]:  Poematum Libelli Tres.  It was a collection of Dr. Peter Du Moulin’s Latin Poems, written at various times of his life, and now arranged by him in three divisions, separately title-paged, entitled respectively “Hymns to the Apostles’ Creed,” “Groans of the Church” (Ecclesiae Gemitus), and “Varieties.”  In the second division were reprinted the two Latin Poems that had originally formed part of the Regii Sanguinis Clamor, with their full titles as at first:  to wit, the “Eucharistic Ode,” to the great Salmasius for his Defensio Regia, and the set of scurrilous Iambics “To the Bestial Blackguard John Milton, Parricide and Advocate of the Parricide.”  With reference to the last there are several explanations for the reader in Latin prose at different points in the volume.  At one place the reader is assured that, though the Iambics against Milton, and some other things in the volume, may seem savage, zeal for Religion and the Church, in their hour of sore trial, had been a sufficient motive for writing them, and they must not be taken as indicating the private character of the author, as known well enough to his