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ture of the oath of allegiance; it recognizing the right 
of his majefty, derived under the act of fettlement; en¬ 
gaging to fupport him to the utmoft of the juror’s power; 
promiling to difclofe all traiterous confpiracies againft 
hint; and exprefsly renouncing any claim of the defend¬ 
ants of the late pretender, in as clear and explicit terms as 
the Englifli language can furnifh. This oath-muft be ta¬ 
ken by all perfons in any office, truft, or employment; and 
may be tendered by two indices of the peace to any per- 
fon whom they ffiall fufpeftof difaffedtion. And the oath 
of allegiance may be tendered to all perfons above the age 
of twelve years, whether natives, denizens, or aliens. 
But, befides thefe exprefs engagements, the law alfo - 
holds that there is an implied., original , and virtual , allegi¬ 
ance, owing from every fubject to his fovereign, antece¬ 
dently to any exprefs promife, although the fubjedt never 
fwore any faith or allegiance in form. Thus Sir Edward 
Coke very juftly obferves, that “all fubjedts are equally 
bounden to their allegiance as if they had taken the oath ; 
becaufe it is w ritten by the finger of the law in their 
hearts, and the taking of the corporeal oath is but an out¬ 
ward declaration of the fame.” 
Allegiance, both exprefs and implied, is however dif- 
tinguilhed by the law into two forts or fpecies, the one na¬ 
tural, the other local ; the former being alfo perpetual, the 
tatter temporary. 
Natural allegiance is fitch as is due from all men born 
within the king’s dominions immediately upon their birth. 
Local allegiance is that which is due from an alien, or 
ftranger born, for fo long a time as he continues within 
the king’s dominion and protedfion; and it ceafes, when 
fuch ftranger transfers himfelf from this kingdom to an¬ 
other. i Blackjl. 366, 370. 
By the common law, every layman, above the age of 
twelve years, was obliged to take the oath of allegiance 
at the tourn or leet; and it was a high contempt to refufe 
it. 1 Injl. 6 %. 
The oath of allegiance, or rather the allegiance itfelf, is 
held to be applicable, not only to the political capacity of 
the king, or regal office, but to his natural perfon and 
blood-royal: and for the mifapplication of their allegiance, 
viz. to the regal capacity or crown, exchdive of the per¬ 
fon of the king, were the Spencers banifhed in the reign 
of Edward II. And from hence arofe that principle of 
perfonal attachment and afiedlionate loyalty, which indu¬ 
ced our forefathers to hazard all that was dear to them, 
life, fortune, and family, in defence and fupport of their 
liege lord and fovereign. It is to be obferved, however, 
in ^explanation of this allegiance, That it does not preclude 
refiftance to the king, when his mifeonduft or weaknefs is 
fuch as to make refinance beneficial to the community. It 
feerrts fairly prefumable, that the convention parliament, 
which introduced the oath of allegiance in its prefent 
form, did not intend to exclude all refiflance: fince the 
very authority by which the members fat together, was 
itfelf the effedt of a fuccefsful oppofition to an acknow¬ 
ledged fovereign. Againu The allegiance above deferi- 
bed can only be underflood to lignify obedience to lawful 
■commands. If, therefore, the king ffiould iffue a procla¬ 
mation, levying money or impofing any fervice or reftraint 
upon the fubjedt, beyond what the law authorifed, there 
would exift no fort of obligation to obey fuch a proclama¬ 
tion,, in confequence of having taken the oath of allegiance. 
.Neither can allegiance be fuppofed to extend to the king 
after he is actually and abfoluteiy depofed, driven into 
exile, or otherwife rendered incapable of exercifing the 
regal office. The promife of allegiance implies, that-the 
■perfon to whom the promife is made continues king; that 
is, continues to exercife the. power, and afford the protec¬ 
tion, which belong to the office of king; for it is the pof- 
feffion of thefe-which makes fuch a particular perfon the 
object of the oath. 
ALLE'GIANT, adj. Loyal ; conformable to the duty 
j fit allegiance : a word not now ufqd. 
ALL 
ALLEGO'RIC, adj. After the manner of an allegory^ 
not real; not literal. 
A kingdom they portend thee; but what kingdom, 
Real or allegoric, I difeern not. Milton. 
ALLEGO'RICAL, adj. In the form of an allegory; 
not real; not literal; myftical.—When our Saviour faid, 
in an allegorical and myftical fenfe, Except ye eat the flefh 
of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life 
in you ; the hearers underftood him literally and grofsly. 
Bentley. 
ALI.EGO'RICALLY, ajv. After an allegorical man¬ 
ner.—Virgil often makes Iris the melfenger of Juno, alle¬ 
gorically taken for the air. Peacham. 
ALLEGO'RICALNESS, f. The quality of being al¬ 
legorical. 
To AL'LEGORIZE, v. a. Tq turn into allegory ;. to 
form an allegory ; to take in a fenfe not literal.—An al- 
chymift (hall reduce divinity to the maxims of his labora¬ 
tory, explain morality by fal, fulphur, and mercury; and 
allegorize the feripture itfelf, and the facred myfteries 
thereof, into the philofopher’s ftone. Locke. 
AL'LEGORY, f. [allegoric, Fr. allcgoria, Sp. allegc- 
ria. It. and Lat. aWryoeyot, of a A A©', another, and ccyopyvay 
to fpeak, Gr.] A figure in rhetoric, which confifts in 
choofing a fecondary fubjedt, having all its properties and 
eircumftances refembling thofe of the principal fubjedt, 
and deferibing the former in fuch a manner as to repre- 
fent the latter. The principal fubjedt is thus kept out of 
view, and we are left to dilcover it by refiedticn. Thefe 
cannot be a finer or more corredt allegory than that in 
pfalm lxxx. where a vineyard is made to reprefent-God’s 
chofen people, the Jews. 
Nothing gives greater pleafure than an allegory, when 
the reprefentative fubjedt bears a ftrong analogy, in all its 
eircumftances, to that which is reprefented. But fome 
writers are unlucky in their choice, the analogy being ge¬ 
nerally fo faint and obfeure, as rather to puzzle than to 
pleafe. Allegories, as well as metaphors and limilies, are 
unnatural whenever they exprefs any fevere paffion which 
totally occupies the mind. See Metaphor. 
ALLE'GRI (Antonio), called Correggio from the place 
of his birth, an eminent hiftorical painter, was born in 
the year 1494, and died in 1534. Being defcended of poor 
parents, and -educated in an obfeure village, he enjoyed 
none of thole advantages which contributed to form the 
other great painters of that illuftrious age. He law none 
of the fiatues of ancient Greece or Rome; nor any of the 
works of the eftablifiied fchools of Rome and Venice. But 
Nature was his guide ; and Corregio was one of her fa¬ 
vourite pupils. To exprefs the facility with which he 
painted, lie ufed to fay that he always had his thoughts 
ready at the end of his pencil. The agreeable fmile, and 
the profufion of graces, which he gave to hismadonas, 
faints, and children, have been taxed with being feme- 
times unnatural; but ftill they are amiable and feducing. 
An eafy and flowing pencil, an union and harmony of co¬ 
lours, and a perfect intelligence of light and fiiade, give 
an aftonilhing relief to all his pictures, and have been the 
admiration both of his cotemporaries and his fuccefibrs. 
Annibal Caracci, who ftourifhed fifty years after him, lias 
been particularly laviffi in his commendation of this great 
artift. 
ALLE'GRO, f. in mufic, an Italian word denoting one 
of the fix diftindtions of time, and fliews that the part is 
to be played in a fprightly, brifle, lively, and gay, man¬ 
ner. Pin Allegro, dignifies, that the part it is joined to 
ffiould be fung or played quicker ; as Poco piu Allegro 
intimates, that the part to which it refers ought to be 
played or fung a little more brifldy than allegro alone 
requires. 
AL'LEIN (Jofepli), the fon of Tobias Allein, was bora 
at Devizes, in Wilfftiire, in 1633, and educated at Oxford. 
In he became affiftant to Mr. Newton, in Taunton- 
. Magdalen, 
