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APPENDIX G 633 B.A. 31 Jan. 1596/7; he also graduated at Leyden 10 Feb. 1598/9; and was admitted to the Middle Temple 1601. M.P. for Truro 1626; for Tregony 1628-29; ^o^ Truro again Apr.-May 1640, and in the Long Pari. 1640-53; for Devon, in the " Barebones " Pari, (of which he was Speaker), July to Dec. 1653; and for Cornwall 1656-57. He was a Lay Assessor of the Westminster Assembly 12 June 1643; took the Covenant 23 Sep. 1643; Provost of Eton College 10 Feb. 1643/4 till his death; Commissioner for Scandalous Offences 5 June 1646; a member of the Derby House Committee 16 July 1648; and Gov. of the Alms- houses of Windsor Castle 2 Sep. 1654. Councillor of State,(') with a salary of £1,000 per ann., 16 Dec. 1653 and 13 July 1657; Commissioner for visiting the Univ. of Cambridge 2 Sep. 1654. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, but did not take his seat.C") He «., 2 Apr. 1612, at Menheniot, Ibbot, or Philippa, da. of George Grenvile,(') of Penheale, Cornwall, by Julian, da. and coh. of William Viell. She, who was ^. about 1572, d. 20 Dec. 1657, and was i>ur. in the chancel of Acton Church, Midx., "aged 85." M.I.C^) He d. 7, at Acton afsd., and was iur. 25 Jan. 1658/9, in Eton College Chapel.(°) Will dat. 18 Mar. 1657/8, pr. 10 Feb. 1658/9. RUSSELL [39] Francis Russell,(') s. and h. of Sir William R., of Chippen- ham, CO. Cambridge (who was cr. a Baronet 9 Jan. 1628/9, and d. Feb. 1653/4), by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Gerard, of Bur- well, in the same co.; l>. about 161 6; matric. Oxford (Wadham Coll.) 28 Jan. 1630/1, aged 14; admitted Gray's Inn 15 Aug. 1633, ^"'l Inner Temple 1635. He was in the Life-guard of the Earl of Essex i642;(8) (=)"The monarchical foundation being thus laid, and the general himself as protector seated thereon, he became one of his council, good old man, and well he deserved it for he ventured hard." {Second Narrative of the late Parliament). C") When the House was called over, 2 Feb. 1657/8, he was entered on the roll as absent, " being lame." {journal of the Protectorate Home of Lords, p. 522). He d. before the meeting of Richard Cromwell's House of Lords. (■=) He d. 2 Sep. 1595. {Inq. p. m.). Sir Richard Grenvile, the gallant captain of the Revenge, was his second cousin. if) On the north wall of the chancel of Acton Church is the monument of " Philippa, late wife of Francis . . . Rous . . . .," who died in 1657, aged 85. Arms of Rous, impaling Silver three crescents Gules. (Lysons' Environs, vol. ii, p. 6). (') " Soon after were hanged up over his grave a standard, pennon, (jJc, and other ensigns relating to barons, containing in them the arms of the several matches of his family. All which continuing there till 1661, were then pulled down with scorn by the loyal provost and fellows, and thrown aside as tokens and badges of damn'd baseness and rebellion." (Wood's Athenae, vol. iii, p. 468). (^ He bore for arms: Silver a lion Gules, with three Silver roses on a chief Sable. (8) "Mr. Francis Russell, who with ten men well mounted and armed, which he maintained, rode in the life-guard." (Ludlow's Memoirs, 23 Oct. 1642). 80