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Foster: s. Thomas, of Marston, Beds, sacerdot. Christ Church, matric. 7 March, 1622-3, aged 18; perhaps B.D. from Lincoln Coll. 3 April, 1633, D.D. 3 July, 1661, navy chaplain to admiral Henry, earl of Holland, domestic chaplain to Thomas, earl of Cleveland, rector of Wainfleet All Saints, co. Lincoln 1634, of King's-Nympton, Devon, 1639-62, archdeacon of Barnstaple 1660-2, precentor 1662, and canon of Exeter 1662, rector of Alphington 1662, and of Exminster, also Devon, 1664, until his death 22 June, 1667, buried in the chancel of King's-Nympton, his father rector of Marston Mortaine, 1598. See Ath. iii. 776.