Foster: pleb. Matriculated St Alban Hall Oxford 31/10/1600, aged 18; demy Magdalen College 1602-10, BA 12/12/1604, MA 08/07/1607, Fellow 1610-15, BD 11/05/1621; rector of Manningford Bruce Wilts 1621, member of the Westminster Assembly, rector of Beckenham in Kent in 1647 and of Mildenhall Wilts, from where he was ejected in 1660; father of William (1636); buried at Marlborough 27/03/1663.