Protesting that he had not so much as known the fact of Milton's blindness at the time of the publication of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_, and therefore could not have been guilty of the heartless allusion to it in the Dedicatory Epistle, he there said, "_If anything occurred to me that might seem to look that way, I referred to the mind_,"-- a phrase which it is difficult to construe otherwise than as an admission that he had written the Dedicatory Epistle, but had employed the familiar quotation there ("_monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum_") only metaphorically.

All in all, then, the authorship of the Dedicatory Epistle, as well as the editorship and adoption of the whole anonymous book, is fastened upon Morus.

With this amount of responsibility fastened upon him, however, Morus must be dismissed, and another person brought to the bar.

He was the Rev.DR.PETER DU MOULIN the younger.
The Du Moulins were a French family, well known in England.

The father, Dr.Peter Du Moulin the elder (called _Molinaeus_ in Latin), was a French Protestant theologian of great celebrity.