ALEYN (Charles), an English poet in the reign of Charles I. In 1631, he published two poems on the famous victories of Cressi and Poictiers. He succeeded his father as clerk of the ordnance, and was commissary-general of the artillery to the king at the battle of Edgehill. The next piece he wrote was a poem in honour of Henry VII. and the victory that gained him the crown of England. In 1639, the year before he died, he translated the history of Eurialus and Lucretia, from the Latin epistles of Aeneas Silvius.