[The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 CHAPTER II 131/279
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.
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