Eutychii Ecclesiæ suæ Origines De Anno Civili Veteris Ecclesiæ . Dissertatio ad Fletam De Synedriis et Præfecturis Juridicis Veterum Ebræorum Lib. I. 1642 1644 1646 1647 1650 Lib. III. posthumous Judicium de Decem Scriptoribus An Archbishop Usher Engraved by Freeman from a picture by Sir Peter Lely. Published by Matthews & Leigh, Strand. THE LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP USHER.* JAMES USHER, Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, was born at Dublin on January 4, 1580-1. His father, Arnold Usher, descended * The principal authority for the facts in the following narrative is the Life of Usher composed by RICHARD Parr, D.D. the primate's chaplain at the time of his death, This person was the son of the Rev. Richard Parr of Devonshire, who settled as a minister at Fermoy in Ireland, in king James's reign. Richard, born in 1617, was sent to England for education, and entered of Exeter college, Oxford. He was chaplain-fellow of his college when Usher, in 1643, making Oxford his residence in the civil war, was so favourably impressed by Parr's conduct and character, that he engaged him as his chaplain. He accompanied the primate into Wales, and afterwards to London; and was presented to the vicarage of Ryegate, and subsequently, to that of Camberwell. He continued, however, to be Usher's chaplain till the death of that prelate, by whom he was entrusted with the care of all his papers. After the Restora |