Foster: born in city of Canterbury; BA from Merton College Oxford 20/10/1631, MA from Magdalen Hall 11/06/1634; vicar of Melbourne Derbyshire 1636, lecturer of St Mary, Bury St Edmund, about 1644, ejected for nonconformity, died 12/09/1663. See BL, Add. MS 15670 pp. 189, 198; Athenae Oxonienses, iii. 640; Calamy, iii. 256.