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 and was buried in the cathedral. He had married, about 1598, Gwen, daughter of John ap Rhys Wyn of Llwyn Yn, who survived him and married again. They had four sons and seven daughters; a full account of them and their descendants is given in the ‘History of Powys Fadog’ (v. 212). Parry's portrait, showing him in episcopal robes, was at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire (, Heraldic Visitations, ii. 320 n.)

 PARRY, RICHARD, D.D. (1722–1780), divine, son of Hugh Parry, was born in Bury Street, St. James's, London, in 1722. He was admitted a scholar at Westminster in 1736, and in 1740 was elected a student at Christ Church, Oxford. He graduated B.A. in 1744, M.A. in 1747, B.D. in 1754, and D.D. in 1757 (, Alumni, 1715–1886). He was appointed rector of Hawkhurst, Kent, by the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1748. On 7 June 1750 he was made chaplain to Lord Vere, and in 1754 preacher at Market Harborough, Leicestershire. He was subsequently presented by Richard Fleming to the rectory of Witchampton, Dorset (instituted 5 Dec. 1757).

Parry died on 9 April 1780 at Market Harborough, and was buried on the 16th in the church of St. Mary-in-Arden, the mother church of Market Harborough, where there is a flat stone to his memory. He married, on 31 Dec. 1757, Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Admiral Gascoigne; by her he had nine children, of whom five sons and two daughters survived him. Parry was a magistrate for the county of Leicester, and interested himself in local politics.

Besides many theological works, he wrote ‘Strictures upon a thing called “Memoirs of the late contested Election,”’ 1776, in which he vindicated the freeholders of Leicester from aspersions thrown on them in a pamphlet by Dr. Heathcote, 1775. He published, besides single sermons: 1. ‘The substance of Three Sermons preached at Market Harborough,’ Oxford, 1755. 2. ‘The Fig-tree dried up, or the Story of that Remarkable Transaction as it is related by St. Matthew and St. Mark, considered in a new Light, explained, and vindicated,’ Bath, London, and Oxford, 1758. 3. ‘A Defence of the Lord Bishop of London's Interpretation of the famous Text in the Book of Job,’ Northampton, 1760; 2nd edit., corrected and enlarged, Northampton, 1761. 4. ‘Remarks upon a Letter from the Rev. Dr. Kennicott to the Printer of the “General Evening Post,”’ &c., London, 1763. 5. ‘The Case between Gerizim and Ebal fairly stated,’ London, 1764, dedicated to Gregory Sharpe, master of the Temple. 6. ‘A Harmony of the Four Gospels, with a Commentary and Notes,’ London, 1765. 7. ‘An Appeal to Reason concerning a Prosecution in the Archdeacon's Court at Leicester,’ 1765. 8. ‘The Genealogies of Jesus Christ … in Matthew and Luke explained, and the Jewish Objections removed,’ London, 1771. 9. ‘An Attempt to demonstrate the Messiahship of Jesus from the Prophetic History and Chronology of Messiah's Kingdom in Daniel,’ London, 1773.

 PARRY, ROBERT (fl. 1595), translator, author of ‘Moderatus: the most delectable and famous Historie of the Black Knight,’ London, 1595, 4to. This was entered on the ‘Stationers' Register’ to Richard Jones, 26 March 1594. It is dedicated to Henry Townshend, esq., ‘one of her Majesties Justices of Assise of the Countye Pallatine of Chester,’ by Robert Parry, who describes his romance as ‘a fancie.’ Greek and Latin verses in praise of the author are prefixed, and songs and lyrics occur in the text. A copy of the book is in the Bodleian Library. Parry is perhaps the ‘R. P.’ who co-operated with Margaret Tyler in translating from the Spanish original (of D. Ortunez de Calahorra, P. la Sierra, and M. Martinez) the ‘Myrrour of Princely Deeds and Knighthood,’ which on 4 Aug. 1578 was licensed to Thomas East in the ‘Stationers' Register.’ The English work appeared in nine separately issued parts, and the publication was only completed in 1601. ‘R. P.’ was apparently responsible for the second, third, and fourth parts of the English version, which respectively correspond in the original Spanish (which consisted of four books) to the second and third parts of book i. and to the first part of book ii. The original editions of the contributions, first in order, undertaken by ‘R. P.’ are not extant. Editions of 1599 of his parts ii. and iii. of the English version are the earliest known. The title of part ii. runs: ‘The Second Part of the [first] Booke of the Myrrour of Knighthood: in which is prosecuted the 