ALLER, a parish in the hundred of SOMERTON,
county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (W.) from Somerton,
containing 454 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, rated in the king's books at £36. 15., and in
the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Emanuel
College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St.
Andrew. At this place, Guthrum, the Danish chief,
received baptism, under the sponsorship of Alfred the
Great, after the famous victory obtained by that monarch
over the Danes at Ethandune. Aller Moor was
the scene of a battle between the royalists and the parliamentarians,
in 1645. Dr. Ralph Cudworth, author
of "The Intellectual System of the Universe," was
born here, in 1617.