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FRANCIS ROUS (1579-1659)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS See also:ROUS (1579-1659)  , See also:English Puritan, was See also:born at Dittisham in See also:Devon in 1579, and educated at See also:Oxford (Broad-See also:gates See also:Hall, afterwards See also:Pembroke See also:College) and at See also:Leiden, graduating at the former in See also:January 1596-97, and at the latter thirteen months afterwards . For some years he lived in seclusion in See also:Cornwall and occupied himself with theological studies, producing among other books The Arte of Hap pines (1619) and Testis Veritatis, a reply to See also:Richard See also:Montagu's Appello Caesarem . He entered See also:parliament in 1625 as member for See also:Truro, and continued to represent that or some neighbouring See also:west See also:country See also:constituency in such parliaments as were summoned till his See also:death . He obtained many offices under the See also:Commonwealth, among them that of See also:provost of See also:Eton College . At first a Presbyterian, he afterwards joined the See also:Independents . In 1657 he was made a See also:lord of parliament . He died at See also:Acton in January 1658-J9 . The subjective See also:cast of his piety is reflected in his Mystical See also:Marriage . . . betweene a Soule and her Saviour (1635), but he is best known by his metrical version of the See also:Psalms (1643), which was approved by the See also:Westminster See also:Assembly and (in a revised See also:form) is still used in the Scottish Presbyterian churches .

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