theological literature of the period, including some New England Tracts on Church and Church government Henry Archer's Personall Reign of Christ bears the imprint "Printed and sold by Benjamin Allen." There are many references to him in Hazlitt's Collections. His will, dated May 5th, 1646, was very short and mentioned no names, but legacies were left to his wife and to a son and daughter. This will was proved on May 15th in the same year by his widow, Hannah Allen. [P.C.C. 57 Twisse.]
ALLEN (HANNAH), bookseller and printer in London; The Crown, in Pope's Head Alley, 1647–50. The widow of Benjamin Allen. The last entry by her in the Registers was on September 2nd, 1650. She dealt chiefly in theological literature. She afterwards married Livewell Chapman, q.v. [Stationers' Registers, Liber E, fol. 249.]
ALLEN (JOHN), bookseller in London, (i) Rising Sun in the New Buildings in Pauls Church Yard, between the two North Doors; (2) Little Britain. 1656–67. Amongst his early publications were some astrological tracts; but in 1659 he wrote and published two pamphlets against the practice of judicial astrology. The second of these, entitled Judicial Astrologers totally routed, contains on the last leaf a list of 14 books sold by him. [b.m. 718 d. 31.] His name occurs in the Hearth Tax Roll, 1666, as living in Little Britain. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy 25232.]
ALLEN (NATHANIEL), bookseller in London; Angel & Bible in Lumber [i.e., Lombard] Street, 1642–43. Took up his freedom as a stationer on August 4th, 1634. [Arber, iii. 687.] His name is found on C. Herle's Independency on Scriptures, 1643.
ALLESTRY, ALLESTRYE, or ALLESTREE (JAMES), bookseller in London, (1) Bell in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1652-64; (2) Rose & Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1664–66; (3) Rose & Crown, in Duck Lane, 1667–69; (4) Rose & Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1669–70. Was a relative, perhaps brother, of Richard Allestry the divine (1619–81), and father of Jacob Allestry, poetical writer (1653–86). Details of his early life are wanting, and the first heard of him as a bookseller is in the year 1652, when he is found in business at the Bell in St. Paul's Churchyard, in partnership with John Martin. In 1660 they were joined by Thomas Dicas,
