Richard Allestree or Allestry (1619 – 28 January 1681) was a Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College from 1665.
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“For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
A glorious angel. Then if angels fight,
Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)