He had resided for a good while in England in the reign of James I., officiating as French minister in London, and in much credit with the King and others; but, on the death of James, he had returned to France.

At our present date he was still alive at the age of eighty-seven, and still not so much out of the world but that people in different countries continued to think of him as a contemporary and to quote his writings.

There are references to him, far from disrespectful, in one of Milton's Anti-Episcopal Pamphlets in reply to Bishop Hall.[1] Two of his sons, both born in France, had settled permanently in England, and had become passionately interested in English public affairs, though in very different directions .-- The younger of these, LEWIS DU MOULIN, born 1606, having taken the degree of Doctor of Physic at Leyden, had come to England when but a young man, and, after having been incorporated in the same degree at Cambridge (1684), had been in medical practice in London.

At the beginning of the Long Parliament, he had taken the Parliamentarian side, and had written, under the name of "Irenaeus Philalethes," two Latin pamphlets against Bishop Hall's _Episcopacy by Divine Right_--pamphlets very much in the same vein of root-and-branch Church Reform as those of the Smectymnuans and Milton at the same time.

Since then, still adhering to the Parliament through the Civil War, he had become well known as an Independent--much, it is said, to the chagrin of his old father, who was a Presbyterian, with leanings to moderate Episcopacy; and in 1647, in the Parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford, he had been rewarded with the Camden Professorship of History in that University.