Foster: of co. Gloucester, pleb. Magdalen Hall, matric. 10 June, 1597, aged 16; B.A. 5 June, 1600, B.D. 5 May, 1614, then 10 years in theology; president of Trinity Coll. 1648-58, created D.D. 12 April, 1648, rector of Hanwell, Oxon, 1607-42, minister of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and one of the assembly of divines; rector of Petersfield, Hants, one of the parliamentary visitors of the university 1647, rector of Garsingdon, Oxon; died 12 Dec., 1658, buried in Trinity College chapel, M.I.; will at Oxford 7 Dec., 1658; father of Malachi. See Ath. i. xlvi, & iii. 458; Fasti, ii. 116; Gutch, i. 533; Rawl, xvii. 217; Burrows, 554, 565; Foster's Index Eccl.; & D.N.B.