Allelne, Or Allein. I. Joseph, an English nonconformist, minister and author, born at Devizes in 1683, died in 1668. He received his education at Oxford, and was a man of extensive literary acquirements. Though ejected from his curacy and imprisoned for nonconformity, he yet preserved his reverence for the ecclesiastical authorities, and his loyalty to the king. His principal work, "An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners," has passed through numerous editions.

II. Richard, an English nonconforming clergyman, horn at Ditchet, Somersetshire, in 1611, died in 1681. He was educated at Oxford, and became rector of Batcombe in Somersetshire, He was a rigid puritan, and assisted the commissioners appointed by parliament to purify the church of "scandalous ministers." He was deprived of his rectory after the restoration as a nonconformist, but continued to preach in a private house. Although often censured for so doing, his virtues shielded him from any severity on the part of the authorities.