ALEYN, CHARLES, an English poet in the reign of Charles I. In 1631 he published two poems, entitled The Battails of Cressy and Poictiers, under the fortunes and valour of King Edward of that name, and his sonne Edward prince of Wales, named the Black. 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 Lucretian, from the Latin epistles of Aeneas Sylvius.