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ALLESTREE, or ALLESTRY, See also:RICHARD (1619-1681)  , royalist divine and See also:provost of See also:Eton See also:College, son of See also:Robert See also:Allestree, and a descendant of an See also:ancient See also:Derbyshire See also:family, was See also:born at Uppington in See also:Shropshire . He was educated at See also:Coventry and later at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, under See also:Richard See also:Busby . He entered as a commoner in 1636, was made student shortly after-wards, and took the degree of B.A. in 164o and of M.A. in 1643 . In 1642 he took up arms for the See also:king under See also:Sir See also:John See also:Biron . On the arrival of the See also:parliamentary forces soon afterwards in Oxford he secreted the Christ Church valuables, and the soldiers found nothing in the See also:treasury " except a single See also:groat and a halter in the bottom of a large See also:iron See also:chest." He escaped severe See also:punishment only by the hasty retirement of the See also:army from the See also:town . He was See also:present at the See also:battle of Edgehill in See also:October 1642, after which, while hastening to Oxford to prepare for the king's visit to Christ Church, he was captured by a See also:troop of See also:Lord Say's soldiers from See also:Broughton See also:House, being soon afterwards set See also:free on the surrender of the See also:place to the king's forces . In 1643 he was again under arms, performing " all duties of a See also:common soldier " and " frequently holding his See also:musket in one See also:hand and his See also:book in the other." At the See also:close of the See also:Civil See also:War, he returned to his studies, took See also:holy orders, was made See also:censor and became a " noted See also:tutor." But he still remained an ardent royalist . He voted for the university See also:decree against the See also:Covenant, and, refusing submission to the parliamentary visitors in 1648, he was expelled . He found a See also:retreat as See also:chaplain in the house of the Hon . See also:Francis See also:Newport, afterwards See also:Viscount Newport, in whose interests he undertook a See also:journey to See also:France . On his return he joined two of his See also:friends, See also:Dolben and See also:Fell, afterwards respectively See also:archbishop of See also:York and See also:bishop of Oxford, then See also:resident at Oxford, and later joined the See also:household of Sir Antony See also:Cope of See also:Hanwell, near See also:Banbury . He was now frequently employed in carrying despatches between the king and the royalists in See also:England .

In May 1659 he brought a command from See also:

Charles in See also:Brussels, directing the bishop of See also:Salisbury to summon all those bishops, who were then alive, to consecrate clergymen to various See also:sees " to secure a continuation of the See also:order in the Church of England," then in danger of becoming See also:extinct.' While returning from one of these See also:missions, in the See also:winter before the Restoration, he was arrested at See also:Dover and committed a prisoner to See also:Lambeth See also:Palace, then used as a See also:gaol for apprehended royalists, but was liberated after confinement of a few See also:weeks at the instance, among Others, of Lord See also:Shaftesbury . At the Restoration he became See also:canon of Christ Church, D.D. and See also:city lecturer at Oxford . In 1663 he was made chaplain to the king and regius See also:professor of divinity . In 1665 he was appointed provost of Eton College, and proved himself a capable See also:administrator . He introduced order into the disorganized finances of the college and procured the See also:confirmation of See also:Laud's decree, which reserved five of the Eton fellowships for members of King's College . His additions to the college buildings were less successful; for the " Upper School," constructed by him at his own expense, was falling into ruin almost in his lifetime, and was replaced by the present structure in 1689 . Allestree died on the 28th of See also:January 1681, and was buried in the See also:chapel at Eton College, where there is a Latin inscription to his memory . His writings are:—The Privileges of the University of Oxford in point of Visitation (1647)—a See also:tract answered by See also:Prynne in the University of Oxford's Plea Rejected; 18 sermons whereof 15 preached before the king . . . (1669); 40 sermons whereof 21 are now first published . . . (2 vols., 1684); sermons published separately including A See also:Sermon on Acts xiii .

2, (166o) ; A See also:

Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Epistles of St See also:Paul (See also:joint author with See also:Abraham Woodhead and See also:Obadiah See also:Walker, 1675, see edition of 1853 and See also:preface by W . Jacobson) . In the Cases of See also:Conscience by J . See also:Barlow, Bishop of See also:Lincoln (1692), Allestree's See also:judgment on Mr See also:Cottington's See also:Case of See also:Divorce is included . A See also:share in the See also:composition, if not the See also:sole authorship, of the books published under the name of the author of the Whole See also:Duty of See also:Man has been attributed to Allestree (See also:Nichols's Anecdotes, ii . 603), and the tendency of See also:modern See also:criticism is to regard him as the author . His lectures, with which he was dissatisfied, were not published . Allestree was a man of extensive learning, of moderate views and a See also:fine preacher . He was generous and charitable, of " a solid and masculine kindness," and of a See also:temper hot, but completely under See also:control .

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