Francis Rous or Rouse (1579 – January 1659) was an English politician and a prominent Puritan. He was also Provost of Eton, and wrote several theological and devotional works.
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“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
—St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)