Abbey, for which his sources may have been Gerbrand Harkes, the Protestant dealer, and Clement Burdett. While in Allen's possession, most of his manuscripts were unbound or had simple covers. A considerable part of Allen's collection was presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir Kenelm Digby, to whom it had been left: over 200 manuscripts, which were rebound in calf. This bequest was strong in works by early English scientists, including Roger Bacon, Simon Bredon, John Eschenden, Robert Grosseteste, John Sharp, and Richard Wallingford. But Allen's library was in flux during his lifetime, as he lent or gave items, and was consulted by others. He was a significant supporter of Sir Thomas Bodley's effort to found the Library; and gave it a number of works. Some went to the Cottonian Library, presumably via Richard James. Sir Thomas Aylesbury, another former pupil, was another one of Allen's major legatees. The Cuthbert Gospel of St John, seen in his library by James Ussher, appears to have left his possession by 1622, as it is not in a catalogue of that date. Ussher wrote to Camden in 1606 of the help he had had from Allen's collection, consulting William of Malmesbury, and a papal bull from Giraldus Cambrensis via Johannes Rossus. Notes References English astrologers 16th-century astrologers 17th-century astrologers 16th-century English mathematicians 17th-century English mathematicians 1542 births 1632 deaths People of the Elizabethan era Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford People from Uttoxeter