Thomas Allen was an English mathematician, philosopher, antiquarian, and astrologer. He was born in 1542 and died in 1632. He studied at Oxford, and lived the greater part of his life in learned retirement, corresponding with many of the famous men of his time. In his own day he was generally reputed a dealer in the black art of witchcraft. Research Thomas Allen
 
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