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ALLESTREE, or ALLESTRY, See also: Eton See also: College, son of Robert 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
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He was educated at See also: Coventry and later at Christ See also: Church,
See also: Oxford, under See also: Richard See also: Busby
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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
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In 1642 he took up arms for the See also: king under
See also: Sir See also: John Biron
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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 groat and a halter in the bottom of a large iron chest." He escaped severe punishment only by the hasty retirement of the army from the See also: town
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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 troop of See also: Lord Say's soldiers from Broughton See also: House, being soon afterwards set See also: free on the surrender of the place to the king's forces
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In 1643 he was again under arms, performing " all duties of a See also: common soldier " and " frequently holding his musket in one See also: hand and his See also: book in the other." At the close of the See also: Civil War, he returned to his studies, took See also: holy orders, was made censor and became a " noted tutor." But he still remained an ardent royalist
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He voted for the university decree against the See also: Covenant, and, refusing submission to the parliamentary visitors in 1648, he was expelled
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He found a retreat as See also: chaplain in the house of the Hon
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See also: Francis See also: Newport, afterwards Viscount Newport, in whose interests he undertook a journey to See also: France
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On his return he joined two of his See also: friends, See also: Dolben and See also: Fell, afterwards respectively 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
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He was now frequently employed in carrying despatches between the king and the royalists in See also: England
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In May 1659 he brought a command from See also: Charles in 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 winter before the Restoration, he was arrested at See also: Dover and committed a prisoner to See also: Lambeth 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
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At the Restoration he became See also: canon of Christ Church, D.D. and city lecturer at Oxford
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In 1663 he was made chaplain to the king and regius professor of divinity
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In 1665 he was appointed provost of Eton College, and proved himself a capable See also: administrator
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He introduced order into the disorganized finances of the college and procured the confirmation of Laud's decree, which reserved five of the Eton fellowships for members of King's College
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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
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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
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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
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(1669); 40 sermons whereof 21 are now first published
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(2 vols., 1684); sermons published separately including A See also: Sermon on Acts xiii
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2, (166o) ; A Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Epistles of StSee also: Paul (joint author with Abraham Woodhead and See also: Obadiah See also: Walker, 1675, see edition of 1853 and preface by W
.
Jacobson)
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In the Cases of
See also: Conscience by J
.
Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (1692), Allestree's See also: judgment on Mr Cottington's See also: Case of See also: Divorce is included
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A share in the composition, if not the See also: sole authorship, of the books published under the name of the author of the Whole Duty of See also: Man has been attributed to Allestree (See also: Nichols's Anecdotes, ii
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603), and the tendency of See also: modern See also: criticism is to regard him as the author
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His lectures, with which he was dissatisfied, were not published
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Allestree was a man of extensive learning, of moderate views and a See also: fine preacher
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He was generous and charitable, of " a solid and masculine kindness," and of a temper hot, but completely under control
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