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==Political Involvements==

In [[1577]] Allen began a correspondence with [[Robert Parsons]], the Jesuit. He was summoned again to Rome in [[1579]] to quell the firsta ofdisturbance thethat manyhad disturbances that befellbefallen the English college under the Jesuit influence, on this occasion largely a dispute between the English and Welsh students. It was during this visit that he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Commission for the revision of the Vulgate. Brought into personal contact with Parsons, Allen fell completely under the dominating personality of the redoubtable Jesuit, and submitted entirely to his influence. He arranged that the Society should take over the English college at Rome and should begin the Jesuit mission to England (1580).

Up to this point the career of Allen had won the universal admiration and gratitude of English Catholics, for what he himself termed his "scholastical attempts" to convert England. Such was not, however, the case with his political labours to secure the same end, which may be said to have begun about this time, and were far less successful. The famous Bull ''Regnans in excelsis'' was issued by [[Pius V]] in 1570, deposing Queen Elizabeth, and releasing her subjects from their allegiance, but this plan did not take practical shape till seventeen years later, when preparations were made for the invasion of England by the King of Spain.

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Pope [[Gregory XIV]] gave him the title of Librarian of Holy Roman Church. In [[1589]] he co-operated in establishing a new English college at Valladolid, in Spain. He took part in four conclaves, though his influence was diminished after the failure of the Armada. Before his death, which took place in Rome, he appears to have changed his mind about the wisdom of Jesuit politics in Rome and England, and would have tried to curb their activities, had he been spared. Certainly his politicl involvements gave a pretext to Elizabeth's government, if pretext was needed, for regarding the Continental English seminaries as hotbeds of sedition.

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He continued to reside at the English College, Rome, until the end. As a cardinal, Allen had lived in poverty and he died in debt, at Rome on [[October 16]], [[1594]]. He was buried in the chapel of the Holy Trinity adjoining the college.

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