ALL 
Magdalen, in Somerfetfhire ; but was deprived for non¬ 
conformity. He died in i6C8, aged 35. He Was a man 
©f great learning, and greater charity; preferving, though 
a nonconformift and a fevere fuft'erer on that account, great 
refpedl for the church, and loyalty to his fovereign. He 
wrote fcveral books of piety, which are highly elteemed ; 
but his “ Alarm to Unconverted Sinners” is more famous 
than the reft. 
ALLELU'JAH, f. [This word is falfely written for 
Hallelujah, jSVn and rp.] A word of Spiritual exultation, 
tiled in hymns ; it lignifies, Praife God. —He will fe’t liis 
tongue to thofe pious divine drains, which may be a pro¬ 
per pneludium to thofe allelujahs he hopes eternally to ling. 
ALLEMAN'DE, [. [Ital.] A kind of grave folemn 
mufic, with good meafure, and a flow movement. It is 
alfo a brifk kind of dance, very common in Germany and 
Switzerland. 
AI.LEMA'NNIC, f in a general fenfe, denotes any 
thing belonging to the ancient Germans. Thus, we meet 
with Allemannic hiftory, Allemannic language, Alle- 
mannic law, &c. 
ALLEN (Thomas), a celebrated mathematician of the 
16th century. He was born at Uttoxeter in Staffbrdlhire, 
in 1542 ; was admitted a fcholar of Trinity-college, Ox¬ 
ford, in 1561 ; where he took his degree of mafter of arts 
in 1567. In 1570 he quitted his college and fellowfhip, 
and retired to Glocefter-hall, where he ftudied very clofely, 
and became famous for his knowledge in antiquity, philo- 
fophy, and mathematics. He received an invitation from 
Henry earl of Northumberland, a great friend and patron 
of the mathematicians, and he fpent fome time at the earl’s 
houfe; where he became acquainted with thofe celebra¬ 
ted mathematicians Thomas Harriot, John Dee, Walter 
Warner, and Nathaniel Torporley. Robert earl of Lei- 
cefter, too, had a great efteem for Alien, and would have 
conferred a bifhoprlc upon him ; but his love for folitude 
and retirement made him decline the offer. His great 
(kill in the mathematics gave occafion to the ignorant and 
vulgar to look upon him as a magician or conjurer. Allen 
was indefatigable in collecting {cattered manuferipts re¬ 
lating to hiftory, antiquity, aftronomy, philofophy, and 
mathematics: which collections have been quoted by feve- 
ral learned authors, and mentioned as in the Bibliotheca 
Alleniana. He publiftied in Latin the fecond and third 
books of Ptolomy, “ Concerning the Judgment of the 
Stars,” or, as it is ufually called, of the “ Quadripartite 
Conflrudion,” with an expofition. He wrote alfo notes 
on many of Lilly’s books, and fome on John Bale’s work, 
“ De Scriptoribus Maj. Britannise.” He died at Glo- 
cefter-hall in 1632, being 90 years of age. 
Mr. Burton, the author of his funeral oration, calls him 
the very foul and fun of all the mathematicians of his age. 
And Selden mentions him as a perfon of the moft exten- 
five learning and confummate judgment, the brighteft or¬ 
nament of the univerfity of Oxford. Alfo Camden fays, 
he was fkilled in moft of the beft arts and fciences. A. 
Wood has alfo tranferibed part of his character from a 
manufeript in the library of Trinity-college, in thefe 
words :—“ He ftudied polite literature with great appli¬ 
cation ; he v'as ftriclly tenacious of academic difetpline, 
always highly efteemed by foreigners and thofe of the uni¬ 
verfity, and by all of the higheft ftations in the church of 
England, and the univerfity of Oxford. He was a faga- 
cious obferver, an agreeable companion, &c.” 
■ Allen (John), archbifhop of Dublin in the reign of 
Henry VIII. was educated in the univerfity of Oxford ; 
from whence removing to Cambridge, he there took the 
degree of bachelor of laws. He was fent by Dr.Warham, 
archbifhop of Canterbury, to the pope, about certain mat¬ 
ters relating to the church. He continued at Rome nine 
years, and was created dodlor of laws. After his return, 
he was appointed chaplain to cardinal Wolfey, and was 
commilfary or judge of his court as legate a latere ; in the 
execution of which office he was fitfpedled of great difha- 
Btfty, and even perjury. He' afliffed the cardinal in vifit- 
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ing, and afterwards fupprefiing, forty of theTmaller mo- 
nafteries, for the erection of his college at Oxford and 
that at Ipfwich. The cardinal procured'for him the living 
of Dalby in Leicefterftiire, though it belonged to the maf¬ 
ter and brethren of the hofpital at Burton Lazars. In the 
year 1525 he was incorporated dodor of laws in the uni¬ 
verfity of Oxford. On the 13th of March 1528 he was 
confecrated archbifhop of Dublin ; and about the fame 
time was made chancellor of Ireland. He wrote fcveral 
pieces relating to the church. His death, which happened 
in July 1534, was very tragical: for, being taken in a time 
of rebellion by Thomas Fitzgerald, eldeft fon to the earl 
rtf Kildare, he was by his command moft cruelly mur¬ 
dered, being brained like an ox, at Tartaine in Ireland,, 
in the 58th year of his age. 
AlLen (SirThomas), vice-admiral of the.white, was- 
a diftinguifhed commander in the Britilh navy, during 
the war between the Englifii and Dutch, in the reign of 
Charles II. In the year 1665, he attacked a Dutch fleet, 
richly laden, from Smyrna, confiding of forty merchant 
fhips, and four men of war. In the engagement, which 
happened near Cadiz, the Dutch commodore, Brackel, was- 
killed, and four of the richeft fhips taken ; the reft took 
refuge in the bay of Cadiz, where he blocked them up for 
a confiderable time. In the celebrated action with Van 
Tromp, which happened in 1666, SirThomas Allen com¬ 
manded the white fquadron of the Englifii fleet, under 
prince Rupert and the earl of Albemarle. He attacked, 
the Dutch van, which he entirely routed ; and it is re- 
niarkable that he killed the three admirals who com¬ 
manded it. The Dutch are fa id to have loft twenty fhips. 
in this adtion, and near 4000 men. Th,e Englifii loft only 
one fiiip, the Refolution, which was burnt; three captains 
were killed, and about 300 private men. 
Allen (ifle of), in the county of Kildare, in Ireland, 
though apparently an Engliflj name, feems to be only a. 
corruption of the Irifli Hy-al-lain , i. e.'the diftridt of tile- 
great plain country. In this diftrid Hands the Hill of 
Allen, the Mount Croinla of the ancient bards. The bog 
of Allen, an immen.fe trait of turf-bog, or peat-mo,fs„ 
the largeft in the kingdom, runs through part of the coun¬ 
ties of Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, and Meath. 
A great part of it has of late years heen reclaimed by 
burning, and the lowing of rape-feed. 
AL'LENBURG, a little town of Tapiau, in Pruffia, 
commodioufi.y fituated on the river AJle. ' Lat. 51. 30. N„, 
Ion. 22. 10. E. 
AL'LENDORF, a fmall town.in the circle of the Uppeiv 
Rhine, and in the landgravate of Helfe Catfel, remarkable* 
for itsTalt-works and three- (tone-bridges. It is feated on* 
the river Wefer, fifteen miles eaft of Call'd. Lat. 51.26. N.. 
Ion.10.5. E. 
ALTER, a.-river which runs throng lithe duchy of Lu¬ 
nenburg, and falls into the Wefer a little below Verden. 
Ai/ler, good, in our ancient writers. The word allcr- 
ferves to make the expreffion of 1’uperlative iignification.. 
So., allcr-good. is the. greateft good. Sometimes it is written-. 
aider. 
ALLE'RION, or Alf.'Rion f. in heraldry, a-fort of 
eagle without beak or feet, having nothing perfect but the 
wings. They differ from martlets by having their wings 
expanded, whereas thofe of the martlet are dole ; and de¬ 
note 1 Imperialifts vanquifhed and difarmed ; for which rea- 
fon they are more common in French,thanin German coats- 
of arms. 
AL'LESTRY (Richard, D. D.) an eminent divine,, 
born at Up’pington in Shropfhire, in March 1619; was 
educated in the grammar-fehool at Coventry, and after¬ 
wards at Chrift-church in Oxford, lie took up arms for 
king Charles 1 . and was fometimes- feen with his mufket 
in one hand and his book in the other;. He was very ac¬ 
tive in the fervice of Charles II. before his refforation, 
and was employed by the royalifts in tranfading bufinefs- 
with that prince during liis exile; but was at laft feized 
at Hover by a party of foldiers,, and. committed prifoner 
to. 
