Can other sources or patronage records provide support for ID in VENN of this Allen as Philip Allen of St John's?:
Adm. sizar (age 19) at ST JOHN'S, June 29, 1742. S. of John, farmer, of Yorks. B. at Snaisholme. School, Sedbergh. ' Matric. 1742; B.A. 1745-6; M.A. 1749; B.D. 1757 Fellow, 1749-74. Taxor, 1750. V. of St Sepulchre, Cambridge. Died insane, Feb. 1774. (Scott-Mayor, III. 530.)