Richard Parr

a Lancashire man born, was entred a Student in Brasn. Coll. on the 2 of Sept. 1609, aged 17, elected Fellow thereof in 1614, being then Bac. of Arts: Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty, he entred into the sacred Function and became a frequent Preacher in these parts. In 1624 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and two years after became Rector of Ladbrook in Warwickshire. But giving that place up two years after, upon the obtaining of the rich Parsonage of Eccleston (where, as they say, he was born) did proceed Doctor of his Faculty in 1634, and about an year after became Bishop of the Isle of Man, in the place of Will. Forster deceased. He was a person very painful in reading the Arts to young Scholars, while he was of Brasn. Coll, and afterwards having a Cure of Souls, he was no less industrious in the Ministry, especially after he was made a Bishop. He hath written and published,

Concio ad clerum habita Oxoniae in Comitiis, 12 July 1625, in Apocal. 3.4. Oxon 1628. oct.

Several Sermons, as (1) The end of the perfect man, a Sermon at the burial of Sir Robert Spencer Knight, Baron of Wormleighton 6 Nov. 1627, in Braynton Church in Northamptonshire, on Psal. 37. ver. 37. Oxon 1628. qu. and one or two more, which I have not yet seen. This person, who was a Sufferer for the Royal Cause during the time of the Rebellion, was living in Lancastire, as I have been informed thence, in the time of Usurpation; but when he died I cannot yet tell. One Rich. Parr was of Exeter Coll, and afterwards a Writer, Clar. 1652. and is now (an. 1690.) living. One Elnathan Parr also was an eminent Divine in the Raign of K. Jam. 1. as his Works shew, but he was not of Oxon, but of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, was Bach. of Divinity and Rector of Palgrave in Suffolk.