Robert Price

the fourth Son of John Price of Runasse in Merionithshire Esq, was born there, or in that County, educated in Westminster School, elected Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1625, aged 18 years, took one degree in Arts, entred upon the Law line, and was adm. Bach. of that faculty in 1632. Afterwards he took upon him the sacred function, was made Chaplain to the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom, at which time he was esteem’d well vers’d in the Ecclesiastical Laws. On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin, and going soon after into England, was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there, and suffer’d much for the royal cause, but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return, was, in requital of his sufferings, made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom; to which Sees being consecrated ((*))((*)) Ibid. p 138. in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660, sate there to the time of his death,1665. which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five, as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh, now Archb. of Cashiells, who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees.