Henry Parry

, Son of Hen. Parry, Son of Will. Parry of Wormebridge in Herefordshire Gent. was born in Wilts, 20. Dec. or thereabouts, an. 1561. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 13. Nov. 1576. and Probationer 23. Apr. 86. being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Greek Reader in that coll. Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth, Doctor of Divinity 95. Dean of Chester in 1605. in the place of Dr. Will. Barlow promoted to the See of Rochester, and at length through Gloucester, was made Bishop of Worcester, an. 1610. He was reputed by all of his time an able Divine, well read in the Fathers, a thro-pac’d Disputant, and so eloquent a Preacher, that K. James 1. always professed he seldom heard a better. The King of Denmark also, who was sometimes present at our Kings Court, gave him a very rich ring for a Sermon that he Preached before him and K. James at Rochester, an. 1606. He hath published,

Concio de regno dei, in Matth. 6. 33. Lond. 1606. qu.

Concio de victoriâ Christianâ, in Apoc. 3. 21. Oxon. 1593. 94. Lond. 1606. He also translated from Eng [•] ish into Latin, The summ of a Conference between Joh. Rainolds and Joh. Hart, touching the Head and the Faith of the Church. Oxon. 1619. fol. Also from Lat. into English, A Catechism, wherein are de [•] ated and resolved the questions of whatsoever moment, which have been, or are, controverted in Divinity. Oxon. 1591. oct. Which Catechism was originally written by Zach. Vrsinus. This worthy Bishop died of a Palsey at Worcester, 1616 12. Dec. in sixteen hundred and sixteen, and was buried in a little Chappel joyning to the north side of the Door of the Cathedral Church at Worcester. In his Epitaph over his Grave (a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniver. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 238.) he is characterized to be trium linguarum cognitione, assidua verbi divini praedicatione, provida Ecclesiae gubernatione, mentis pietate, morumque integritate spectatissimus, &c.