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)]