See also: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
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He was educated at See also:Coventry and later at See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
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
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In 1642 he took up arms for the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king under See also:Sir See also:John See also: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 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
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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 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
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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
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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
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He found a See also:retreat as See also:chaplain in the house of the Hon
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See also:Francis See also:Newport, afterwards See also:Viscount Newport, in whose interests he undertook a See also: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 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
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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 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
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
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
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At the Restoration he became See also:canon of Christ Church, D.D. and See also:city lecturer at Oxford
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In 1663 he was made chaplain to the king and regius See also: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 See also:confirmation of See also: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 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, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker, 1675, see edition of 1853 and See also:preface by W
.
Jacobson)
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In the Cases of See also:Conscience by J
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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
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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
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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
.
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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