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
Witherley,
Leicestershire, in 1633, and of
Wheldrake,
Yorkshire, in 1641. During the
First English Civil War he was first in Ireland as tutor in the Boyle family, and was next tutor at
Oxford to the sons of
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington,
Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan and
Richard Boyle (d. 1665), frequently preaching at
St. Peter-in-the-East in
Oxford. He was rector of
Adisham, Kent, from 1646 (with a short intermission in 1660 on the reinstatement of
John Oliver) till his death. He sided, like his father, with the royalists, and wrote the scurrilous reply to Milton,
Regii Sanguinis Clamor, at the time mistakenly attributed to
Alexander More. Du Moulin concealed his authorship until the
Restoration, was consequently unmolested, and was in 1656 made D.D. at Oxford. At the Restoration he was rewarded by a chaplaincy to
Charles II and by succeeding in 1660 to his father's
prebend (Stall IV) at
Canterbury Cathedral. He took up his residence there. Du Moulin died 10 October 1684, and was buried in the Cathedral. Another brother, Cyrus, was for a time French pastor at Canterbury. ==Works==