ALLESTRY, Jacob, an English poet of the last century. He was the son of James Allestry, a bookseller of London, who was ruined by the great fire in 1666. Jacob was educated at Westminster School, entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in the act-term 1671, at the age of 18, and was elected student in 1672. He took the degree of arts; was music reader in 1679, and terræ-filius in 1681; both which offices he executed with great applause, being esteemed a good philologist and poet. He had a chief hand in the verses and pastorals spoken at the theatre at Oxford, 21st May 1681, by Mr William Saville, second son of the marquis of Halifax; and George Cholmondeley, second son of Robert Viscount Kells (both of Christ Church), before James duke of York, his duchess, and the lady Anne; which verses and pastorals were afterwards printed in the Examen Poeticum. He died on the 15th October 1686, and was buried in St Thomas's churchyard.