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AiLFM, in Gogniph, a finall river of FIii:l(hire, in North 

 \\";il.s, which finks unikr groiiiid near Mold, and is loft for 

 ;i (hurt interval. 



ALLENHACII, or F.i.i.i miach, in Cnt^rohhy, a prc- 

 Rdunilc of the piincipility of Hersfcld, in Germany, lying 

 betwixt llie rivcis Nalie an.l Cllans. 



ALLKNBURG, a fmall town of PrulTia, in the govern- 

 r.u-nt of Tapi-ui, well fiinated on the river Albe, eight leagues 

 cail-foiith-eall of Konii^fherg. 



ALLEXDORV, a bailiwick of Lower Helle, m Ger- 

 maiiv, fituate aniidll high and rocky mountains, of which 

 thofeof Gobiirgand liohcberg, on the frontiers of Eichf- 

 fitld, are the molt remarkable, and producing fome wuie. 

 The town of Allendorif is lltuated on the river Werra, or 

 V.'efer, about fifteen miles call of CalTel, N. lat. si'' 18'. 

 E. long. 9" 44'. Tliis town was deilroyedby fne m 1637. 

 Near it are the great fait works in the Sedan, which are 

 more ancient than the town itfelf, as they are mentioned m 

 an inilrument of the emperor Otho 11. bearing date in 973. 

 Ali.kndorf isalfo a prcfcctui-ate of Upper Heffe. The 

 town, fin-named An der lAimde, was erefted in 1 370. It is 

 fix miles iiorth-eall of Gicden, and eight fouth of Mar- 

 burg. 



ALLENSTOAVN, a town of America, in New Jerfey, 

 in Momnouth county, 15 miles nqith-call of Burlington, 

 and 13 fouth by eaft from Princeton. 



Aluf.nstown isalfo a townihip in Rockingham county, 

 New Hamplhire, containing 254 inhabitants, fituate on the 

 eaflfideof Merrimack river, 2J miles uorth-weit of Exeter, 

 and 40 from Portfmouth. 



ALLEN-TOWN, mPennfylvania, Northampton county, 

 on the point of land formed by Jordan's creek, and the 

 little Leheigh, contains about 90 houfes and an academy. 



ALLENTROP, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 the Lower Riiine and duchy of Weftphalia, fituate on the 

 river Sorbeck, three leagues fouth of Arenlberg. 



ALLER, a river of Germany, rifes in the duchy of 

 Magdeburg, paffes by Luneburg, Gifhorn, Zell, &c. and 

 joins tlie 'Wefer, a httle below Verden. 



ALLER good, in our J/icknl Writers. The word aller 

 ferves to make the exprefllon uf fuperlative iignification. 

 So aller good, is the greateft good. Sometimes it is written 

 aliUr. 



A.LLERL'V. SeeALF.RiA. 



ALLERION, or Alerion, in Heraldry, a fort of 

 eaglet, reprefented without either beak or feet. 



The name is Frencli ; and is faid to have been intro- 

 duced for the word eaglet : it is added, that the praftice of 

 caUing eaglets, allerioiis, and of reprefenting them fpread, 

 without feet and beaks, is not above a hundred years old, and 

 is of French invention ; introduced to reprcfent the Impe- 

 rialills as fubdued. Hence, Menage derives the word from 

 aqiiilurio, a diminutive of aqmla. In Latin they are called 

 aquiU miil'die. 



Tlie alkrion, reprefented Tab. Heraldry, Jig. I. appears 

 much the fame with the martlet, except that the wings of 

 the latter are clofe, and it is reprefented, as it were, pajfant ; 

 whei-eas the allerhn is fpread, and is reprefented in pale. 

 Add, that among our heralds, the martlet has a beak, which 

 the alhr'wn wants. 



ALLERSHEIM, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the circle of Swabia, and capital of a bailiwick, in the prin- 

 cipality of Oettingcn, five miles fouth of Oettingen. 



Allersheim is alio the name of a bailiwick, in the 

 principality of Wolfenbuttel, containing four villages, and 

 anciently called EUerfcn, 



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ALLERSPERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Franconia, fix leagues fouth of Nuremberg. 



ALLERSTEIN, called in the Polini language Olflmecl, 

 is a fmall town with a caiUe in the province of Ermelai.d, 

 lituate on tlie river AUc, and built in 1 367. 



ALLERTSPERG, a town of Germany, in the arch- 

 duchy of Aullria, feven miles north of Bavarian Waid- 

 hoven. 



ALLESANI, a town of Corfica, 13 miles eaft-north- 

 caft of Corte. 



ALLESTRY, Richard, in Biography, an Englifh 

 cpifcopalian divine, was born at Uppington, near the Wreken, 

 in Sliroplliire, in the year 1619, and after receiving part of 

 his education at Coventiy, under Philemon Holland, the 

 tranflator, was entered a commoner in Chriil-church, Oxford, 

 under the tuition of Riciiard Initby, afterwards Dr. Bufby, 

 the famous mailer of \Vellmiii(ler fchool. From a courfe 

 of ftudy and improvement, in which after he had taken the 

 degree of bachelor of arts, he was chofen moderator in phi- 

 lofophy, the diilrattion of the times fuddenly called him 

 forth to military fen'ice. In this new occupation, he and 

 the other Oxford fcholars, manifefted their loyalty ; bi:t 

 having been protefted and fuppoited by Sir John Biron, 

 with a party of horfe, Alleilry and his affociates returned to 

 their ilwdies. It was not long before their fafety was again 

 endangered by a republican party, who entered Oxfoi'd for 

 the pui-pofc of plundering the colleges. Alleilry contrived 

 fecretly to remove the booty which they had coUettcd ; and 

 as focn as it was known that he was the caiife of their dif- 

 appointment, they fcized him, and would probably have 

 treated him with feverity, if they had not been fuddenlv 

 called away by the earl of Effex. On a fubfequent occafion 

 he was taken prifoner by a party of horfe, but when the 

 parliament garrifon at Broughton-houfc, whither he was 

 conveyed, furrendered to the king's forces, he was releafed. 

 Alleilry refuming his ftudies, took his degree of mailer of 

 arts. As foon, however, as he recovered from a diforder 

 which threatened his life, and which had prevailed in the 

 garrifon at Oxford, he entered again into the krng's fervice, 

 and encountered the fatigues and hazards of a militaiy life, 

 in the humble llation of a common foldier. In this fervice, 

 blending the watchings of a ioldier with the lucubrations of 

 a icholar, he continued till the end of the war ; and when 

 the republican party became triumphant, he retired to his 

 college. Here he was employed in the office of cenfor, and 

 as private tutor to feveral Undents ; and though he had no 

 profpeA of ecclefiaftical preferment, he entered into holv 

 orders. Still zealonfly attached to the royal party, he ligned 

 the decree palled in the univerfity of Oxford, againll the 

 folemn league and covenant. In confequence of this aft, 

 he and other members of the univerfity, with whom he con- 

 curred, were profcribed and banilhed from Oxford by the 

 pavliamentaiy vifitors. To him, however, a ihoit rcfpite 

 was granted for fetthng his affairs, " bccaufe," as one of 

 their number alTerted, " he was an eminent man." During 

 the depreflion of the royalifts he found an afjlum, firft in 

 the houfe of Francis Newport, Efq. in Shropfnire, where 

 he officiated as chaplain, and afterwards in that of Sir An- 

 thony Cope, in Oxfordlhire. His talents and fidelity ren- 

 dered him an ufefid and aftive inftrument in prepainng the 

 way for the reftoration of Charles II. In one of his expe- 

 ditions for this purpofe he was feized at Dover by a party of 

 foldiers, and committed to the jail of the king's friends at 

 Lambeth houfe. Upon his releafe from confinement, he 

 propofed to vifit his friend Dr. Hammond, at Weflwood, 

 near Worceiler ; but when he approaelicd his houfe, he met 

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