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ALLEMAKNIC, in a general fenfe, fometliing relating 

 to the ancitnt GcrmaMS. The word ii alfo written Ahimaii- 

 nic, yllcmamiic, and jihmanic. It is formed from ^llemiiimi, 

 y/llc;nanni, or /Harmumi ; the name whereby the Gernrun 

 nation was anciently known. See Alemannm. 



In this fenfe we meet with Allemannic hillory, Allemannic 

 language, Allemannic laws, S;c. GuUialhis, and other.s, 

 have publifhed collcClions of writers on Allemannic affairs : 

 ^Ikniantciinim irrum fcriptores. 



Allemannic language was fpoken throughout the fouthern 

 parts of Germany. It is divided into feveral dialects ; the 

 principal of which are the Suevic, and Helvetic. The Al- 

 lemannic differed from the Franeic, which was the language 

 in ufe through the northern parts of Germany ; the chief 

 dialccls of this are the Palatine, Frauconian, and Saxon. 



Allemannic /atu, jus Alhmannicum, is the fame with 

 what is otherwife called the Suevic law, being that which 

 obtained in the more fouthern parts of the country, as the 

 Saxon law did throughout the northern. 



Schilter has publiihed the provincial Allemannic law, and 

 alfo the code of the feudal Allemannic law. 



ALI^EN, John, in Biogriiphy, archbifhop of Dublin, 

 in the reign of Henry VIII., was educated at Oxford, and 

 look his degree of bachelor of laws at Cambridge. Having 

 been fent to the pope by Warham, archbilhop of Canter- 

 bury, on fome eeclefiailical affairs, he continued at Rome 

 nine years ; and after his retiu'n, was chaplain to cardinal 

 WoHcy, and commiifary or judge of his court as legate a 

 latere ; in the execution of which office he was fufpccled of 

 diflionefty and even of perjuiy. In return fur his fcrvices, 

 the cardinal procured for him the living of Ualby, in Lei- 

 cefterlhire. In i 525 he was iacorporated at Oxford, doctor 

 of laws, which degree he had taken either at Rome or fome 

 Italian univerfity ; and in 1528 he was confecrated arch- 

 bifhop of Dublin, and made chancellor of Ireland. He was 

 cruelly murdered by command of the eldeft fon of the earl 

 of Kiidare, in a time of rebellion, A.D. 1534, in the 58th 

 year of his age. His works are, " Epiftola de Pallii fignili- 

 catione aftiva and pafTiva," and " De confuetudinibus ac 

 llatntls in tuitoriis caufis obfcrvandls ;" and fevtral other 

 pieces relating to the church. Biog. Brit. 



Allen, or Alleyn, Thomas, an eminent mathema- 

 tician, was born at Uttoxeter, in Staffordfhire, in 1542, 

 -nd admitted fcholar of Trinity college, in Oxford, in ijOi, 

 fellow in 1565, and in 1567, mailer of arts. Averfe from 

 taking orders, and inclined to retirement, he withdrew from 

 college and took up iiis relidence in 1570 at Glouceiter-hall, 

 where he fediiloiifly purfiied his ftudies and became an emi- 

 nent antiquary, mathematician, and philufopher. His 

 ta'ents and learning attracted the notice of feveral perfons 

 of diflinftion ; he was offered a bifhopric by Robert, earl 

 of Leicefler, and ftrongly folicited by Albertus L'Afliie, 

 count or prince of Sirade, in Poland, to refide with him in 

 kis own country ; but he declined every propofal of this 

 kind, and preferred the pleafure of retirement and ftudy to 

 fccular advantages that were hkely to accrue to him from 

 the patronage of the great. He affociated, however, with 

 perfons molt diftinguilhed for literature and feience at the 

 period in which he lived, to whom he had acccfs in the houfe 

 of Henry, earl of Northumberland, the great friend and 

 patron of the mathematicians. By the ignorant and vulgar 

 he was regarded, on account of his great ficill in the mathe- 

 matics, as a magician and conjurer. Mr. Sclden informs 

 us, " that he was a perfon of the moll extenfive learning and 

 confummate judgment, the brighteft ornament of the uni- 

 verfity of Oxford;" and Camden tstoli him as "highly 



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accompliflied in an estenfive acquaintance with the mofl valu- 

 able arts and Iciences." He was curious and diligent in ccl- 

 Icefing iMSS. relating to various branches of learning. Thefe 

 collections iiavebten cited by feveral authors ; but they arc 

 now difperfcd and loll. His works are, " The ftcond and 

 third books of Ptolemy, concerning the judgment of the 

 Itars, with a commentary," publiflied in Latin ; notes on 

 many of Lilly's books, and on I'ale's book " De Scrip- 

 toribus Maj. Britannia;." It is julUy to be regretted, that 

 the v/orld has derived fo little advantage from the erudition 

 and literary labours of a perfon, who in his funeral eulogy 

 by Burton, was denominated " not only the Corvphiu.s, 

 but the very foul and fun of all the mathematicians of his 

 time. He died Sept. 30th, 1632. Wood's Atticn. Oxan.- 

 vol. i. Biog. Brit. 



Allen, Thomas, a learned divine, was born in ijyjr 

 cducated in the king's fchool at Worccller, and removed to 

 Oxford in 1589, wliere he made » great jirogrefs in j)hilo- 

 fophy,and became a noted difputant. He took orders, but 

 applied to the abllrufe and critical parts of learning more 

 than to preaeliing. He wrote in Ijatiii " Obfervalions on 

 St. Chryfultoni's book upon Ifaiah," publiihed in Sir H. 

 Savile's edition of Chi^follom's works, and affilled him in 

 his annotations on this fatiier's homilies on the Evangelills. 

 Savlle reprefents hhn " as a very learned man, antl no lefs- 

 ikilled in the Greek learning than in divinity." He died in- 

 1636, and was buried in the chap J of Eton-college, of 

 which he was a fellow. Biog. Brit. 



Allen, Bknjamin, M. 1). publiihed in the year 1700, 

 at London, " The natural iiillory of the ehalybeat and 

 purging waters in England," 8vo. This was republifiied in 

 the year 171 i. He gives the analyfis of the feveral waters, 

 which he claifes under the heads of ehalybeat, faline, ful- 

 phnreous, or mixed, and attributes their virtues to a fubtle 

 gas or fpirit with which he fuppofes they are imbued. There 

 are no memorials extant of the life of this writer. 



Allen, John, M. D. F. R. S. publifhed in the year 

 1719, " Synopfis univerfie Medicinx Pra6tic;t," 8vo. The 

 work is dedicated to the prefident and fellows of the Roval 

 College of Phyiicians, London ; and compriles brief dt- 

 fcriptions, and accounts of all the difeafes incident to the 

 human body, with the moll approved modes of treating 

 them; taken, as the author every where acknowledges, fron^ 

 the moft em.inent writers, ancient and moder:.. Of this work 

 the author fpeaks verj- modeilly, and particularly admoiiilhes 

 the leader not to content himfelf with the abflrafts he has gi- 

 ven, " fed polius authores ipfos ubicunque confuhit : tiiun in 

 " transfereiidis," he adds, " eorum fcntcntiis.verilimile eil,me 

 " frequenter crraffe, aut faltem fenfum obfcurc, aut imper- 

 " fette Iradidiffe. Duk'ius exipfu j'onle Libunttir aqua:." The 

 work was, however, received with fuch avidity, not only ia 

 England but "in all parts of Europe, that in the fpace of a 

 very few years, it pafl'ed through numerous editions, to 

 which, from time to time, the author made fuch additions, 

 as incrcafed it to nearly double its original bulk. In the 

 year 1734 he gave an Englifh tranflation, which was pub- 

 liflied in two volumes, 8vo. : it had been before tiauflated into 

 French. The author appears to have pratUfed medicine 

 in London, but no particulars of his life have been 

 publiflied. 



Allen, Flopert J''an, an engraver, who flourifhcd in 

 1686. He drew the town of Vienna, in 1686, and en- 

 graved the town of Prague, a large, flight print, with many 

 figures. Strutt. 



Allen, Frouc'u, an obfcure engraver of Lubcsk, who 

 flourifhed in 1652. 



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