ALLEINE, RICHARD (1611-1681), English Puritan di vine, was born at Ditcheat, Somerset, where his father was rector. He was a younger brother of William Alleine, the saintly vicar of Blandford. Richard was educated at St. Alban's hall, Oxford, and New Inn, and in 1641 became rector of Batcomb (Somerset). He was one of the 2,000 ministers ejected in 1662. The Five Mile Act drove him to Frome Selwood, and in that neighbourhood he preached until his death on Dec. 22, His most famous work is Vindiciae Pietatis (which first appeared in 166o).
See Calamy, s.v.; Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. iii. 167-168; C. Stan ford's Joseph Alleine; Researches at Batcomb and Frome Selwood; Wood's Athenae (Bliss), iv. 13.