Editing Pierre Allix (section)

==Life==
Born in 1641 in [[Alençon]], France, he became a pastor first at [[Saint-Agobile]] [[Champagne, France|Champagne]], and then at [[Charenton-le-Pont|Charenton]], near [[Paris]].  The revocation of the [[Edict of Nantes]] in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in [[London]]. There he set up a church in Jewin Street, [[Aldersgate]].<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=407|title=Allix, Peter|first=Vivienne|last=Larminie}}</ref> He was the most celebrated Huguenot preacher of the 1680s in England, closely associated with [[Charles Le Cène]], and known to advocate [[religious toleration]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Randolph Vigne|author2=Charles Littleton|title=From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britiain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550-1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bm4sFfBAG18C&pg=PA389|accessdate=22 May 2013|year=2001|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-902210-86-5|pages=389–}}</ref>

In 1690 Allix was created [[Doctor of Divinity]] by [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]],  and was given the treasurership and a canonry in [[Salisbury Cathedral]] by Bishop [[Gilbert Burnet]].<ref name="ODNB"/>

Allix discovered that [[Codex Ephraemi]] is a [[palimpsest]]. He died in [[London]]. He had a large personal library which was sold by retail sale upon his death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Allix 1641-1717 - Book Owners Online |url=https://www.bookowners.online/Peter_Allix_1641-1717 |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=www.bookowners.online |language=en-GB}}</ref>