Richard Parr

sometimes Fellow of Brasnose College was made Bishop of Sodor or the Isle of Man about the year of the Lord 1635, and dyed in the times of Usurpation, but the year when I cannot tell, Clar. 1652. tho several times I have sent Letters to know it. See more of him among the Writers p. 96. The See of Man laid void till 1662, and then in June Dr. Isaac Barrow being elected to govern it, was consecrated thereunto in K. H. 7. Chap. at Westm. on the 5. of July 1663, and not before, at which time his Nephew, Son of his Brother Thomas, called Dr. Isaac Barrow Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. preached the Consecration Sermon. This worthy and godly Bishop, who was Son of Isaac Barrow of Spiney-Abbey in the County of Cambridgeshire Esq, was educated in S. Peters Coll. commonly called Peter House in Cambridge, of which he became Fellow, but turn’d out thence by the Presbyterians an. 1643 or thereabouts: whereupon going to Oxon, and his eminency being known there, he was made one of the Chaplains of New Coll, by the most loyal and generous Warden thereof Dr. Pink, where continuing till after the garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament, shifted afterwards from place to place, and suffered with the rest of the loyal and orthodox Clergy till the most blessed return of K. Ch. 2. At which time he was not only restored to his Fellowship, but also made one of the Fellows of Eaton Coll. near Windsore, which he held in Commendam with the Bishoprick of Man. In Apr. 1664 he was made Governour of the Isle of Man by Charles Earl of Derby, governed it piously and prudently, held that office all the time he was Bishop of Man, and sometime after his translation to S. Asaph. He was a great benefactor to the Island, especially to the Clergy, did collect by his great care and pains from pious persons one thousand eighty one pounds eight shillings and four pence, with which he bought all the impropriations in the Island from the Earl of Derby, and setled them upon the Clergy as every one had need. He ordered them all to teach School in their respective Parishes, and allowed 30 l. per an. for a Free-school, and 50 l. per an. for Academical learning. He got also one hundred pounds a year setled (which was like to have been lost) upon the Clergy, which was given by K. Ch. 2, and gave 135 l. of his own money, for a lease upon lands of twenty pounds a year, which is setled towards the maintenance of three poor Manks Scholars in the College at Dublin, that in time there might be a more learned Clergy in the Island. He gave likewise 10 l. towards the making a bridge over a dangerous water and did many other good works there. Afterwards going into England for healths sake, and continuing in a house of the Countess of Derby in Lancashire called Cross-hall, he received the news of his Majesties conferring on him the Bishoprick of S. Asaph. See more of him in Hen. Glemham among these Bishops, under the year 1667. p. 670.