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Allestry, James, 1653-1686
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1653-1686
History
ALLESTRY, JAMES, son of James Allestry, bookseller, London; b. 1653; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1667; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1672, matr. 3 Jul 1672, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1672; BA 1676; MA 1679 (incorp. at Camb. 1680); Music Reader 1679; Terrae Filius 1682; philologist and poet; principal contributor to Verses and Pastoral spoken before James, Duke of York, 21 May 1681, and published in Examen Poeticum, 1693; d. 15 Oct 1686, “of the French pox”. DNB, s. v. Jacob Allestry. [Perhaps bapt. St. Augustine, Watling Street 13 Apr 1654, son of James Allistraw (sic), and Ruth --- (IGI)]
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.