ALLEIN, Joseph, the son of Tobias Allein, was born at Devizes, in Wiltshire, in 1633, and educated at Oxford. In 1655 he became assistant to Mr. Newton, in Taunton-Magdalen, in Somersetshire; but was ejected for nonconformity. He died in 1668, aged 35. He was a man of great learning and greater charity; preserving, though a nonconformist, and a severe sufferer on that account, great respect for the church, and loyalty to his sovereign. He wrote several books of piety, which are highly esteemed,—especially his Alarm to Unconverted Sinners. There have been many editions of this pious little work, the sale of which has been very great.