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 176 A L L E Y N. which he had beftowed on others." We have noreafon to think he ever repented of this diftribution of his fubftancc, but on the contrary, that he was entirely fatisfied, as appears from the following memorial in his own writing, found amongft his papers : " May 26, 1620, my wife and I ao* " knowledged the fine at the common pleas bar, of all our " life to do it." His wife died in the year 1623 : and about two years afterwards he married Conftance Kinchtoe, who furvived him, and received remarkable proofs of his affection, if at leaft we may jud;;e of it by his will, wherein he left her confiderably. fie died Nov. 25, 1626, in the 6ift year of his age, and was buried in the chapel of his new college^ where there is a tomb-ftone over his grave, with an infcrip* tion. His original Diary is alfo there preferved. Kouvelfcs ALLIX (PETER), an eminent proteftant divine, born in Lueraires, p rance at Alencon, 1641, where he received a liberal edu- lorn, v $ p. 2S6. cation. He became minifter of the reformed church at Rouen, where he publiflied many learned and curious pieces. His great reputation induced the reformed to call him from Rouen to Charenton, which was the principal church they had in France; the village lies about a league from Paris, at the confluence of the rivers Seine and Marne, and to this place the moft confiderable perfons in France, of the pro- teftant religion, conftantly reforted. Here he preached many excellent fermons in defence of the proteftant religion, which were afterwards printed in Holland. Upon the revo- cation of the edict of Nantes, he found himfelf obliged to quit France : he had prepared a moft pathetic difcourfej which he intended to have delivered as a farewell to his con- gregation, which however he was obliged to omit; but the fermon was afterwards printed. In 1685, by the advice of his friends, he retired into England, where he met with a moft favourable reception, on account of his ext-enfive learn* ing, and fmgular knowledge in ecclefiaftical hiftory. Upon his arrival here, he applied very clofely to the ftudy of the Englifh language, which he attained to a great degree of perfection, as appeared by a book he publiflied in defence of the Chriftian religion, dedicated to king James II. acknow- ledging his obligations to that prince, and his kind behaviour to the diftrefle-d refugees in general. He waa foon compli- mented with the degree of doctor in divinity, and in 1690 had the treafurerfhip of the church of Salisbury given him.
 * mitting himfelf to that proportion of diet and cloath.3
 * ' lands to the college : blefled be God that he has given us