 He referred in the dedication of his "Psalmes" to the late Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick as 'my good Lord and Master'.Allison is represented by thirteen compositions in a set of consort books (dated 1588), from the household of Sir Francis Walsingham.Ten four-part settings by him appeared in East's "Whole Booke of Psalms" (1592), and he contributed a dedicatory poem to Giles Farnaby's "Canzonets to Fowre Voyces" (1598).