PARRY Family History

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Can you identify these Coats of Arms?

The image shows part of a tablet from Worcester Cathedral (UK). The tablet was erected in 1872, to mark the spot where Henry Parry, Bishop of Worcester from 1610-1616, was buried. The original effigy had been removed at that time, as the Cathedral was being renovated. (The effigy is now elsewhere in the Cathedral, although most of its original surround is lost).

The following image shows the whole tablet. The Arms visible higher up on the tablet are those of the position of Bishop of Worcester (the roundels) and of Henry Parry himself (although varying slightly from other descriptions of his Arms - Grazebrook, in The Heraldry of Worcestershire (1873) described his monument as showing "Argent, on a fesse between three lozenges azure, an annulet or for difference". The Parry Arms are occasionally given as having the bordure azure, so that is not necessarily incorrect. However, Burke's General Armory gives sable for the fesse and lozenges, instead of azure, for the Wormbridge branch, of which Henry is reputedly a descendant. Nowhere else have I found the fesse being gules, nor have any other versions shown a cross on the fesse, as there is here.)

If you can help to identify the quarterings in the other Coat of Arms, then please contact me.