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| | Richard Alleine - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | RICHARD ALLEINE (1611-1681), English Puritan divine, was born at Ditcheat, Somerset, where his father was rector. |
 | | Richard was educated at St Alban's Hall, Oxford, where he was entered commoner in 1627, and whence, having taken the degree of B.A., he transferred himself to New Inn, continuing there until he proceeded M.A. On being ordained he became assistant to his father, and immediately stirred the entire county by his burning eloquence. |
 | | He declared himself on the side of the Puritans by subscribing "The testimony of the ministers in Somersetshire to the truth of Jesus Christ" and "The Solemn League and Covenant," and assisted the commissioners of the parliament in their work of ejecting unsatisfactory ministers. |
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