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gious and godly Government in a Commonwealth, &c. 
1659, 4-to. 9. Patronus bonae Fidei, in Caufa Puritano- 
rura, contra Hierarchos Anglos, &c. 1672, 8vo. for writing 
which he was committed to cuftody. 10. Jugulum Caufas, 
feu nova, &c. ratio, per quam totus Dodtrinarum Roma- 
nenfium Complexus, de quibus lis eft inter Proteftantes 
et Pontificios, &c. 1671, 8vo. to which are prefixed about 
fixty letters to different perfons. n. A fliort and true 
Account of the feveral Advances the Church of England 
hath made towards Rome, See. 1680, 4-to. 12. The Confor¬ 
mity of the Government of thofe who are commonly 
called Independents, to that of the ancient Primitive 
Chriftians, 1680, 4to. Soon after his death.a piece was 
publifhed, as was fuppofed by Dr. Gilbert Burnet, which 
had been figned by the author, and is intitled, “ His Laft 
Words, being his Retradlation of all the perfonal Reflec¬ 
tions he had made on the Divines of the Church of Eng¬ 
land,” 1680, 4-to. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. Neal's Hijl. 
Purit. vol. iii. 
MOULIN BA'Y, a bay of the ifland of St. Vincent, on 
the weft coaft. Lat. 13. 10. N. Ion. 61. 18. W. 
MOULINET', f. [Fr. a little mill.] In mechanics, a 
roller, which, being crofled with two levers, is ulually 
applied to cranes, capftans, and other forts of engines of 
the like nature, to draw ropes, heave up ftones, &c. 
Moulinet is alfo a kind of turnftile, or wooden crofs 
which turns horizontally upon a ftake fixed in the ground ; 
ufually placed in pafiages to keep out hoffes, and to oblige 
pafl’engers to go and come one by one. Tliefe moulinets 
are often fet near the outworks of fortified places at the 
fldes of the barriers, through which people pafs on foot. 
Chambers. 
MOULI'NS, a city of France, and capital of the de¬ 
partment of the Allier, and feated on the river of 
that name. Before the revolution, it was the capital of 
the Bourbonnois, and was efteemed one of the plea- 
lanteft towns in France ; but Mr. Pinkney, the Ame¬ 
rican traveller, who vifited it in 1808, deferibes it diffe¬ 
rently : “ Moulins fomewhat difappointed my expecta¬ 
tion. It is indeed beautifully fituated, in the midft of a 
riling and variegated country; but the interior of the 
town does not merit defeription: the ftreets are narrow, 
the houles dark, and built in the worlt poflible ftyle. The 
market-place is only worthy of mention as introducing the 
price of provifions: beef, and mutton, and veal, are plen¬ 
tiful ; vegetables fcarcely coft any thing, and fuel is very 
moderate ; fruit is fo cheap as fcarcely to be fold, and very 
good; eggs two dozen for an Englilh fixpence; poultry 
abundant, and about fixpence a fowl. A good houfe, 
fuch a one as is ufually inhabited by the lawyer, the apo¬ 
thecary, or a gentleman of five or fix hundred per an¬ 
num, in the country-towns in England, is at Moulins 
from twelve to fourteen pounds per year, including gar¬ 
den and paddock. Our inn at Moulins was horrible ; our 
beds would have frightened any one but an experienced 
traveller. The population amounts to 13,509 fouls: the 
principal trade is cutlery. Near it is a medicinal fpring. 
It is thirty-fix pofts fouth-fouth-eaft of Paris. Lat. 46. 
33. N. Ion. 3. 24. E. 
MOULI'NS (Guyars des), a French prieft, and canon of 
Aire in Artois, who flourifiied towards the dole of the 
thirteenth century. He is entitled to the honour of having 
been the firft perfen who gave a tranfiation of the Scrip¬ 
tures (or, more properly fpeaking, a conliderable portion 
of the Scriptures) in the French language. In this work 
he did not pretend to give a verfion from the originals of 
the lacred writings, but only to renderinto French the ce¬ 
lebrated performance of Peter,dean of Troyes in the twelfth 
century, diftinguiflied by thefurname of Comejlor, or the 
Eater. That performance confifts of an abridgment, par¬ 
ticularly of the hiftorical parts of the Old and New Tella- 
jnent, accompanied with glolles and comments; and it is 
the form in which alone the Bible was read for a long pe¬ 
riod in France. Des Moulins commenced his undertak¬ 
ing ia 1291, when he vgas at the age of forty, and. finilhed 
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it in about four years. In 1297, he was promoted to the 
deanery of his chapter; which is the laft circumftance 
that is related concerning him, no mention being made of 
the time of his death. It has been maintained by fome 
critics that the work attributed to des Moulins ought to 
be aferibed to Nicholas Orefme^-bifliop of Lifieux in the 
fourteenth century. This point father Simon has fully 
dilcufled, and decided very fatisfadlorily in favour of the 
claims of our author. His tranfiation was printed in 1487, 
by order of Charles VIII. Simon's FUJI. Crit. 
MOULINS en GILBE'RT, a town of France, and 
principal place of a diftridl, in the department of the 
Nyevre : feven miles fouth-weft of Chateau Chinon, and 
twenty-feven eaft of Nevers. Lat. 46.59. N. Ion. 3. 53. E. 
MOULINS la MA'RCHE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Orne: nine miles fouth-weft of L’Ai- 
gle, and eighteen north-eaft of Alengon. 
MOULON'GE I'SLANDS, a duller of fmall iflands in 
the Indian Sea, near the coaft of Africa. Lat. 10.45. S. 
MOU'LS, a fmall ifland near the north coaft of the 
county of Cornwall, a little to the north of the mouth 
of the river Alan. 
MO'UI.SEY. See vol. xi. p. 749. 
MO'ULSHAM. See vol. iv. p. 142, 3. 
To MO'ULT, v. n. [muylen, Teut. Our own word at 
firft was mout or mowt; from muto, Lat. to change.] To 
lhed or change the feathers ; to lofe feathers: 
Time fliall moult away his wings, 
Ere he (hall difeover 
In the whole wide world again 
Such a conftant lover. Suclding. 
MO'ULT, f. The ad or time of moulting; as, Many 
birds do not acquire their full plumage till after their fe- 
cond moult. 
MO'ULTAN, a province of Hindooftan, principally 
lying on the eaft fide of the Indus ; bounded on the north 
by Lahore, on the eaft by Delhi, on the fouth by fandy 
deferts which feparate it from Agimere, and on the weft 
by Perfia. In 1739, this country was ceded to Perfia. It 
atprefent belongs to the dominions of the ftieiks of Can- 
daliar. The principal produdlions are cotton, fugar, 
opium, fulphur, &c. Its trade in the time of Aurungzebe 
was flourifliing; but at prefent it is inconfiderable, on ac¬ 
count of the rapacious difpofition of its pofieflors. 
MO'ULTAN, a city of Hindooftan, the capital of the 
before-mentioned province, and one of the moft ancient 
towns of Hindooftan. Although it is a place of fmall 
extent for the capital of viceroyalty, it is ftrongly fortified, 
and much celebrated for its pagoda, which is held in great 
veneration by the Hindoos. This is the modern capital 
of the country defigned by the hillorians of Alexander 
for that of the Malli, although the ancient capital flood 
nearer to Toulumba. 
Moultan (lands about four miles from the left bank of 
the Cheraub, or Aceiines ; it is four miles and a half in 
circumference; and furrounded with a fine wall more 
than forty feet high, flanked with towers at regular dif- 
tances. The furrounding country is pleafant, well culti¬ 
vated, and watered from wells, with the help of the Perfian 
wheel. The principal manufadlure is filk, and a kind of 
carpet inferior to that of Perfia. This account is by Mr. 
Elphinftone, who, with the miflion to Caubul, 1S09, halted 
here nineteen days. Lat. 30. 36. N. Ion. 71. 22. E. 
MO'ULTING, or Molting, f. The falling-off or 
change of hair, feathers, (kins, horns, or other parts of 
animals; happening in fome annually, in others only at 
certain ftages of life.—Some birds, upon moulting, turn 
colour; as robin red-breafts, after their moulting, grow 
to be red again by degrees. Bacon. —The generality of 
animals moult in the fpring. The moulting of a hawk is 
called mexving. The moulting of a deer is the quitting 
of his horns in February or March. The moulting of a 
ferpent is the putting off his (kin. Even a horfe’s calling 
his coat is fometiijies called moulting; at which period 
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