ew William Rous,
which he must pay by 10l. a year to my nephew Richard Rous, his son. I
give Thomas Rous, of King's College, 6l. for two years. I give Eliz.
Rous, of Penrose in Cornwall, 20l. I give Anthony Rous at Eaton School,
5l. a year for seven years. I give to my niece Rudyard, and her sisters
Skelton and Dorothy, each 20l. I give to Margaret Baker 10l. I give to
a poor Xtian woman in Dartmouth, Mrs. Adams, 10l. To Robert Needler I
give a black suit and cloak; the like to William Grantham and 10l. To
my niece Portman, now in my house, I give 50l. To my other friends of
more ability, I leave it to my executor to give such memorials as he
shall think fitt. To the poor of Eaton I give 20l. To each of my
servants that are with me at any decease I give black suits and 5l.;
and to Peter Fluellen, who is now endeavouring to get a place of
removal, 10l. I give to Thomas Rolle of Eaton, and Robert Yard, each
10l. I give to Christian, now the wife of Mr. Johnson, 20l. I give to
the young Winnington of Eaton, 10l. I give 40l. per annum out of the
Parsonage or Tythe of Great Brookeham in Surrey, to maintain two
schollars in Pembroke College in Oxford. I also give 20l. per annum
unto one schollar more in the same college, out of a tenement in the
Manor of Wootton in Cornwall, during two lives of two Bigfords, and
after their decease out of a tenement of mine in Cowkberry, in Devon,
for ever. The scholars to be chosen are to be poor, {442} not having
10l. a year, apt to learning, and to be of the posterity of myself or
my brother Robert, Richard, or Arthur Rous, or of my sister Nicholl, or
my sister Upton; and if no such shall be tendered, then they are to be
chosen out of the two highest forms in Eaton College. I give power to
my executor to choose them during his life, and desire him, with the
advice of my dear kinsman, Mr. Ambrose Upton, Prebend of Xt Church in
Oxford, to settle and order all things for the sure and usefull
continuance of their allowances to schollars so qualified as before and
of good conversation, and that they study divinity, and some time
before they be Batchelors of Arts, they make good proof of their
studying divinity, and that they continued in their several places but
_seven years_, and then others to be chosen in their rooms. What shall
be above 40l. per annum arising