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See also:ROUS, See also:FRANCIS (1579-1659) , See also:English Puritan, was See also:born at Dittisham in See also:Devon in 1579, and educated at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford (Broad-See also:gates See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
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.
End of Article: ROUS, FRANCIS (1579-1659)
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