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in 1613, lie was appointed deputy governor of the town. He 

 was twice married, first to Jaquelina von Meglien, secondly to 

 Margaret von Graneghan. Returning to Truro he threw himself 

 with characteristic energy into its public life ; he was soon elected 

 a capital burgess, was an alderman in 1620, mayor in 1622, and 

 member of parliament in 1623-4, and in 1627-8. He built a fine 

 house in Truro, which, with its orchards and meadows, cost more 

 than £600 ; but during his absence in London, this house was 

 burnt down, and, in consequence, the Commons gave him 

 permission to return to Truro, This disaster is the more regret- 

 able, because, had it stood, it would have been an interesting 

 example of the architecture of the period, of which so few 

 remains are to be found in the town. Daniell died at Truro, 11th 

 February, 1630. 



Charles I. held five parliaments, and in each Truro was 

 represented by members of the families of RoUe or Rous, except 

 in 1627-8, when Richard Daniell was again elected. Henry RoUe 

 sat in the parliaments of 1625, 1625-6, and 1627-8, and was 

 succeeded in the two parliaments of 1 640 by John RoUe. William 

 Rous sat in Charles' first parliament, and Francis Rous in 1625-6, 

 and in the two parliaments of 1640. Henry Rolle was a very 

 distinguished lawyer, he became first a puisne judge, and 

 afterwards chief justice of the king's bench. William Rous, 

 a member of an ancient Devonshire family that had settled at 

 Halton, St. Dominick, had married Mary, eldest daughter of 

 Richard, Lord Robartes, and to the influence of the Robartes 

 family he owed his election. 



Perhaps the most renowned of all the men whose names are 

 found on the burgess roll of Truro was Francis Rous. Born at 

 Halton in 1579, he studied at Ley den University, where he 

 matriculated 10th February, 1599. On his return to England he 

 espoused the cause of the Puritans, and during the stormy period 

 of the Great Rebellion, came to the fi-ont as an enthusiastic 

 supporter of the parliamentary party. After sitting in one 

 parliament for Truro, he was elected for Tregony, 1627-8, and 

 then returned to Truro. A possible explanation of the fact that 

 Daniell took Rous' place as representative for Truro in this 

 parliament is that the Robartes and Daniell families may have 

 been rivals for political supremacy in the borough, and that, as 



