Foster: of Yorks, pleb. Merton Coll., matric. 11 April, 1595, aged 15; B.A. 15 Dec., 1598, M.A. 8 July, 1602, rector of Byfield, Northants, 1606, until his death in 1631; father of the next. See Foster's Index Eccl. & Baker's Northants, i. 487.