ALLIBOND, JOHN, D.D. (1597–1658), master of Magdalen College School, was born in Buckinghamshire, at Chenies, of which his father, Peter Allibond, was rector [see Allibond, Peter, 1560–1629]. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was admitted as chorister in 1612, matriculated 7 June 1616, proceeded B.A. in the same year, and M.A. three years later, and was clerk of the college from 1617 to 1625. He was master of the free achool adjoining Magdalen from 1625 to 1632, and lectured on the theory of music; became D.D. 17 Oct 1643; was rector of St. Mary-le-Crypt, Gloucester, from 1634 to 1638; was perpetual curate of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, from 1635 to 1645; and was appointed rector of Bradwell, Gloucestershire, in 1636, where he died in 1658. He published anonymously ‘Rustica Acad. Ox. nuper reformatæ descriptio in Visitatione fanatica Octobris 6o, &c., 1648, cum Comitiis ibidem anno sequente … habitis,’ 1648. This was reprinted in 1705, in 1717 (with English verse translation by Ned Ward), and again in 1834. It appears also in Somer's Tracts. It is a very lively anti-puritan satire on the first stage of the parliamentary visitation. A manuscript key exists among Wood's papers. Allibond was also author of Latin verses in ‘Britanniæ Natalis,’ Oxon. 1630; of ‘Dulcissimis Capitibus etc. Invitatio ad frugi Prandiolum,’ printed in the ‘Clerk's Register,’ p. 48; and of a ‘Concio ad Clerum Oxoniensium’ among the Taylor MSS. at Oxford. His lectures on music were highly popular in the university. He was an intimate friend of Peter Heylin.
[Wood's Fasti (Bliss), i. 365, and his Antiq. of Oxford (Gutch), ii. 358, 581; Bloxam's Register of Magdalen College, iii. 156.]
ALLIBOND, PETER (1560–1629), father of Dr.John Allibond, and a translator of theological treatises from the French and Latin, was born in 1560 at Wardington, near Banbury, where many generations of his family had resided. Becoming a student of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1578, he proceeded to his bachelor's degree in 1581 (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 218) and to his master's in 1585 (ibid. i. 230). After some years spent in foreign travel, he entered into holy orders, and subsequently became rector of Chenies in Buckinghamshire, ‘where,’ says Anthony à Wood, ‘continuing many years, he did much improve the ignorant with his sound doctrine.’ It was while holding this benefice that he undertook his literary work. In 1591 he published a book entitled ‘Comfort for an Afflicted Conscience, wherein is contained both Consolation and Instruction for the Sicke, against the fearfull apprehension of their sinnes, of death and the devill, of the curse of the law, and of the anger and iust iudgment of God. Written by John de l'Espine, and translated by Peter Allibond.’ London, 1591, 8vo. And in the following year appeared a translation of a short tract by the same French author, bearing the title ‘Confutation of the Popish Transubstantiation, together with a Narration how that the Masse was at sundrie times patched and peeced by sundrie Popes. Wherein is contained a briefe summe of the reasons and arguments for those readers that will not receive the Masse. Translated out of French into English by Peter Allibond, Minister of the Word of God.’ London, 1592, 16mo. The translator deplores, in a prefatory note, that ‘at this time the papists are very rife and ready with their seducing seminaries and Jesuits,’ and evinces the bitterest hatred of Catholicism. His tone is always strongly Calvinistic. His theological views received their fullest exposition in a third work that he translated from the Latin in 1604. It is entitled ‘The Golden Chayne of Salvation written by that reverend and learned man, Maister Herman Renecker, and now translated out of Latine into English.’ London, 1604, 8vo. The English version is dedicated to the Earl and Countess of Bedford, whom Allibond calls his neighbours and ‘singular good lord and lady,’ and whom he thanks for special favours. He further speaks of having received aid in the translation from ‘another who ioyned with me in this small work,’ but no name is mentioned. Allibond died on 6 March 1628–9, and was buried in the chancel of his parish church. Anthony à Wood describes him as ‘an ingenious man in the opinion of all that knew him.’ Three sons survived him, of whom Job, the youngest, became a convert to the Romish Church.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 440; Ames's Typog. Antiq. ed, Herbert, ii. 1165 and iii. 1332, 1333.]
ALLIBOND, or ALLIBONE, Sir RICHARD (1636–1688), justice of the King's Bench, was a son of Job Allibond, and grandson of Peter Allibond, D.D., the rector of Chenies, Buckinghamshire, who has been already noticed. Job, having become a Roman catholic, was disinherited, but he obtained a considerable place in the post office, which afforded him a comfort-
