John Parry

son of Edw. Parry sometimes Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland, was born in the City of Dublin, educated in Trin. Coll. there till he was Bach. of Arts: Afterwards going to Oxon in the latter end of 1650, was incorporated there in the same degree, and about that time being made Fellow of Jesus Coll. he proceeded in Arts. At his Majesties restauration he went into Ireland in the quality of a Chaplain to James then Marquess (afterwards Duke) of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of that Realm, took the degree of Bach. of Div. at Dublin 26. Jan. 1660, and in the next year returning to Oxon for a time, was incorporated in the same degree. In 1662 Feb. 19 he, by the name of John Parry S. T. prof. was installed Prebend of Bugthorp in the Church of York, on which day also Rob. Mossom D.D. was installed Preb. of Knaresburg in the same Church. Afterwards, by the favour of Ormonde, he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin, about the latter end of the year 1665, (in the place of Dr. Mossom before mention’d, made Bishop of Derry) and at length Bishop of Ossory (in the place of Griffith Williams deceased) by the same hand, an. 1672, with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery in Commendam. He hath written.

Tears well directed: or pious reflections upon our Saviours sufferings, and our own sins, &c. Lond. 1666. oct.

Discourses and ejaculations upon the holy festivals of the Circumcision, Epiphany, Resurrection and Penticost—These two, which are printed together, are grounded upon several parts of Scripture.

Sermon on Nehem. 13. ver. 14. Ox. 1670.

Pious meditations and prayers. Lond. 1673. oct. He also wrot the large Epistle to Sir James Ware, set before The Comment. of the Bishops of Ireland, written by that Knight, and digested, fitted for the press and published a book written by his Father entit. David restored: or an antidote against the prosperity of the wicked and afflictions of the just; in a seasonable discourse on the 73 Psalm.—Printed in oct. 1600. This Dr. Jo. Parry died 21. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was buried near to the body of his Father in the Church of S. Audoen in Dublin. 1677. In the See of Ossory succeeded his Brother Dr. B. Parry, as I shall tell you among the Writers in the next year.