William

Allen or Alan, sometimes fellow of Oriel coll. was created Cardinal under the title of S. Martin in Montibus, an. 1587. and in 1589. he was made Archbishop of Mechlin the Metropolis of Brabant. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred ninety 1594 and four, as I have told you elsewhere. See more among the writers under that year. In the See of Mechlin succeeded Levinus Torrentius a native of Gaunt, and Bishop of Antwerp, founder of the coll. of Jesuits at Lovaine, who dying 6. of the Cal. of May 1595. aged 70. and more, was buried in his Cath. Church.