out of the tythe of Brookham declaro,
and above all rates and taxes, I give unto the minister of that parish;
and I give the parsonage to my respected kinsman Samuel Rous, Esq., of
that parish, yet so, that if he die before my executor, my executor
shall present during his life, and after it shall go to the heirs of
the said Samuel Rous, it being to be hoped that their dwelling be there
they will be carefull for their own souls. I do make and constitute my
dear kinsman Anthony Rous, Esq., of Wootton, in the county of Cornwall,
commonly called or known by the name of Colonel Rous, to be my whole
and sole executor. And I give and bequeath to him all my lands,
tenements, my interest in the parsonage of Great Brookham in Surrey,
all my leases, chattels, plate, money, and other goodly whatsoever, as
also my copyholds, which shall, according to custom, be made over to
him in Acton or Branford, hoping that he will faithfully dispose them
according to my will and intention made known to him; and I give him
100l., and lend him 200l. more for seven years, which he may bestow in
defence of himself as to law suits, if any be brought as concerning my
estate, or if there shall be none to bestow, in some charitable use as
he shall think fitt. I desire my body may be interred and put to rest
in the chapple of Eaton College, a place that hath my dear affections
and prayers that it may be a flouring nursery of piety and learning to
the end of the world. And for a profession of any faith, I refer myself
to the works which I not long since published in one volume, wherein I
have professed a right and saving faith, and hope to continue therein
until faith shall be swallowed up of sight, laying hold of the free
grace of God in his beloved Son as my only title to eternity, being
confident that his free grace, which took me up lying in the blood of
irregeneration, will wash away the guilt of that estate, and all the
cursed fruits of it by the pretious blood of his Son, and will wash
away the filth of it by the spirit of his Son, and so present me
faultless before the presence of God's glory with joy.

(Signed) FRANCIS ROUS.

The Right Honorable Francis Rous, Esq., acknowledged this to be his
last will and testament, the 12th day of April, 1658[2], in the
presence of me, Abel Borsett, endorsed, upon a paper wherei