him, prospered and exalted him; but when he began to leave this path, in a manner, the threads of his plans and life were cut short together.” As a cardinal Allen had lived in poverty and he died in debt.
While we cannot withhold a tribute of respect from Allen for his zeal and earnestness, and recognize that his foundation at Douai survives to-day in the two Catholic colleges at Ushaw and Ware, it is impossible to deny that he injured the work with which his name will ever be associated, by his disastrous intercourse with Father Parsons. Known as a sharer in that plotter’s schemes, he gave a reasonable pretext to Elizabeth’s government for regarding the seminaries as hotbeds of sedition. That they were not so is abundantly proved. The superiors kept their political actions secret from the students, and would not allow such matters even to be talked about or treated as theoretical abstractions in the schools. Dr Barrett, writing (April 14, 1583) to Parsons, makes open complaint of Allen’s secrecy and refusal to communicate. How far Allen was really admitted to the full confidence of Parsons is a question; and his later attitude to the Society goes to prove that he at last realized that he had been tricked. Like James II. with Fr. Petre, Allen had been “bewitched” for a time and only recovered himself when too late.
Authorities.—T. F. Knox, Letters and Memorials of Cardinal Allen (London, 1882); A. Bellesheim, Wilhelm Cardinal Allen und die englischen Seminare auf dem Festlande (Mainz, 1885); First and Second Diaries of the English College, Douai (London, 1878); Nicholas Fitzherbert, De Antiquitate et continuatione religionis in Anglia et de Alani Cardinalis vita libellus (Rome, 1608); E. Taunton, History of the Jesuits in England (London, 1901); Teulet, vol. v.; the Spanish State Papers (Simancas), vols. iii. and iv.; a list of Allen’s works is given in J. Gillow, Biographical Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. i., under his name. (E. Tn.)
ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (1830–1889), American classical scholar, was born at Northborough, Massachusetts, on the 5th of September 1830. He graduated at Harvard College in 1851 and subsequently devoted himself almost entirely to literary work and teaching. In 1867 he became professor of ancient languages and history (afterwards Latin language and Roman history) in the university of Wisconsin. He died in December 1889. His contributions to classical literature chiefly consist of schoolbooks published in the Allen (his brother) and Greenough series. The Collection of Slave Songs (1867), of which he was joint-editor, was the first work of the kind ever published.
ALLEN, BOG OF, the name given to a congeries of morasses
in Kildare, King’s County, Queen’s County and Westmeath,
Ireland. Clane Bog, the eastern extremity, is within 17 m. of
Dublin, and the morasses extend westward almost to the Shannon.
Their total area is about 238,500 acres. They do not form one
continuous bog, the tract of the country to which the name is
given being intersected by strips of dry cultivated land. The
rivers Brosna, Barrow and Boyne take their rise in these
morasses, and the Grand and Royal canals cross them. The
Bog of Allen has a general elevation of 250 ft. above sea level,
and the average thickness of the peat of which it consists is
25 ft. It rests on a subsoil of clay and marl.
ALLENSTEIN, a garrison town of Germany, in the province of
East Prussia, on the river Alle, 100 m. by rail N.E. from Thorn,
and 30 m. from the Russian frontier. Pop. (1900) 24,295. It
has a medieval castle, several churches, a synagogue and various
industries—iron-foundries, saw-mills, brick-works, and breweries;
also an extensive trade in cereals and timber.
ALLENTOWN, a city and the county-seat of Lehigh county,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Lehigh river, about 62 m. N.N.W.
of Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 25,228; (1900) 35,416, of whom
2994 were foreign-born, 1065 being of German birth; (1910)
51,913. It is served by the Central of New Jersey, the
Lehigh Valley, the Perkiomen (of the Reading system)
and the Philadelphia & Reading railways. The city is situated
on high ground sloping gently towards the river and commanding
diversified views of the surrounding country. Hamilton Street,
the principal business thoroughfare, extends over 2 m. from E.
to W., and in what was once the centre of the city is Centre Square,
in which there is a monument to the memory of the soldiers and
sailors who fell in the Civil War. Allentown is the seat of a state
homoeopathic hospital for the insane, of the Allentown College for
Women (Reformed Church, 1867), and of Muhlenberg College
(1867), an Evangelical Lutheran institution which grew out of the
Allentown Seminary (established in 1848 and incorporated as
the “Allentown Collegiate Institute and Military Academy” in
1864); in 1907 the college had 191 students, of whom 109 were
in the Allentown Preparatory School (1904), formerly the
academic department of the college and still closely affiliated
with it. The surrounding country is well adapted to agriculture,
and slate, iron ore, cement rock and limestone are found in the
vicinity. Allentown is an important manufacturing centre,
and the value of its manufactured products increased 90·9%
from 1890 to 1900, and of its factory product 13·2% between
1900 and 1905. In 1905 the city ranked sixth among the cities
of the country in the manufacture of silk and silk goods, its most
important industry. Other important manufactures are iron
and steel, slaughtering and meat-packing products, boots and
shoes, cigars, furniture, men’s clothing, hosiery and knit goods,
jute and jute goods, linen-thread, malt liquors, brick, cement,
barbed wire, wire nails and planing-mill products. Allentown’s
total factory product in 1905 was valued at $16,966,550, of
which $3,901,249, or 23%, was the value of silk and silk goods.
The municipality owns and operates its water-works. Allentown
was first settled in 1751; in 1762 it was laid out as a town by
James Allen, the son of a chief-justice of the province, in honour
of whose family the city is named; in 1811 it was incorporated
as a borough and its name was changed to Northampton; in
1812 it was made the county-seat; in 1838 the present name
was again adopted; and in 1867 the first city charter was secured.
The silk industry was introduced in 1881.
ALLEPPI, or Aulapalay, a seaport of southern India, in the
state of Travancore, 33 m. south of Cochin, situated on a strip
of coast between the sea and one of those backwaters that here
form the chief means of inland communication. Pop. (1901)
24,918. There is a lighthouse, 85 ft. high, with a revolving white
light visible 18 m. out at sea. Though the third town in the
state in point of population, Alleppi is the first in commercial
importance. It commands a fine harbour, affording safe anchorage
for the greater part of the year. It was opened to foreign trade
towards the latter end of the 18th century. The exports consist
of coffee, pepper, cardamoms and coco-nuts. There are
factories for coir-matting. The raja has a palace, and Protestant
missionaries have a church.
ALLESTREE, or Allestry, RICHARD (1619–1681), royalist divine and provost of Eton College, son of Robert Allestree, and a descendant of an ancient Derbyshire family, was born at Uppington in Shropshire. He was educated at Coventry and later at Christ Church, Oxford, under Richard Busby. He entered as a commoner in 1636, was made student shortly afterwards, and took the degree of B.A. in 1640 and of M.A. in 1643. In 1642 he took up arms for the king under Sir John Biron. On the arrival of the parliamentary forces soon afterwards in Oxford he secreted the Christ Church valuables, and the soldiers found nothing in the 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 town. He was present at the battle of Edgehill in 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 Lord Say’s soldiers from Broughton House, being soon afterwards set free on the surrender of the place to the king’s forces. In 1643 he was again under arms, performing “all duties of a common soldier” and “frequently holding his musket in one hand and his book in the other.” At the close of the Civil War, he returned to his studies, took holy orders, was made censor and became a “noted tutor.” But he still remained an ardent royalist. He voted for the university decree against the Covenant, and, refusing submission to the parliamentary visitors in 1648, he was expelled. He found a retreat as chaplain in the house of the Hon. Francis Newport, afterwards Viscount Newport, in whose interests he undertook a journey to France. On his return he joined two of his friends, Dolben and Fell, afterwards respectively archbishop of York
