and high-flown epitaph” was erected over his grave. So says Anthony a Wood. As to the epitaph, my readers can form their own opinion. Here it is:—
Ita semper valeas, lector!
ejus venerare monumentum per quern tarn multi valuerunt.
Qui nunc cinis est, hoc marmore conditus, nuper fuit ille ingens
THEODORUS MAYERNUS
magnum nomen — alter Hippocrates — orbi salutifer —
saeculi sui decus — anteactorum pudor — futurorum exemplar.
Peritiae in re medicâ incomparabili, scientiaeque naturae arcanorum profundissimae,
accesserat
incredibilis politicarum rerum usus, prudentia, facundia, ingenii lepos,
usque ad miraculum.
Erant vivi sermones merae gratiae, sentential gemmae, consilia oracula.
Eminebat verò tenax sanioris pietatis professio et vindicatio.
Non alius apud reges ingenua ΠAΡΡHΣIA felicior,
aut proceribus meritò acceptior, aut tenuibus opem ferre paratior.
Inter diversos personarum gradus et varias temporum vices,
ubique idem sibique similis,
sapiens, commodus, fortis, inconcussus,
ut genio suo turn res turn homines ipsamque adeo fortunam subjecisse videatur.
Quid de Mayernio plura?
Mayernium dixeris, omnia dixeris.
Anima coelo, ossa huic tumulo, nomen immortali famae relinquuntur.
Lector! vive et vale.
Qui sape in mortem, solers, sua tela retorsi —
Morborum ad curas ipsa venena trahens —
Vel, moriens, similem per Christum exerceo praxin,
Qua-que est mors aliis est medicina mihi.
His portrait was prefixed to his Syntagma praxeos in morbis internis (printed by his godson, Sir Theodore de Vaux in 1690) with the following abridged epitaph:—
Theo : Turquet : De Mayerne, Eques Auratus,
patriá Gallus, Religione Reformatus, Dignitate Baro,
Professione alter Hippocrates, ac trium regum (exemplo rarissimo) Archiater
Eruditione incomparabilis, experientiâ nulli secundus,
et,
quod ex his omnibus resultat, famâ latè vagante
perillustris.
Anno aetat : 82.
Adriana, his heiress, was married at Chelsea in 1659, to Armand de Caumont, Marquis de Monpouillan. The Messieurs Haag have memorialized a nobleman of these names and title, as a brother of the Marquis de Cugnac (husband of Elizabeth De Mayerne), and have stated that he was born in 1615, and died a refugee at the Hague, 16th May 1701.[1] They name two wives, but not Adriana. As to this (probably his first) wife, there can be no doubt. In the register of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, the intended marriage is published (after the Commonwealth form) for the last time on 18th January 1656-7, thus: — “Arnaunt de Chaumont Marquise of Mount Pelian, of this parish, and Adriana Demiyerne of Chelsea, singlewoman.” Two years and a half afterwards, the marriage is registered at Chelsea, thus: — “1659 July 21. The Right Hon. Armond de Coumond Lord Marquest of Mompolion and Mrs. Adriana de Miherne.”[2] The long interval may be explained by his military campaigns under Turenne.
The married life of Adriana, Marchioness de Monpouillan, like her sister’s, was brief. She died at the Hague in 1661. Her husband visited England in that year, and was naturalized at Westminster on the 8th of August.
III. Du Moulin.
The family of Du Moulin has produced illustrious men in successive generations. There were two Protestant branches — the branch of Mignaux and the branch of Lorme-grenier. To the former belonged Charles Du Moulin, the celebrated jurist, who was born in 1500, joined the Protestant congregation of Paris in 1542, and died in 1566. To the latter belonged the first Joachim Du Moulin, husband of Jeanne de Houville, to whom in her widowhood is attributed the deed of disinheriting her son, Joachim, for becoming a Protestant. The younger Joachim espoused Francoise
