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Foster: son of Thomas, a poor knight of Windsor; scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1574, BA 16.10.1579, fellow 1580, MA 14.1.1584 ns, B and DD from Queen's College, Oxford, 16.6.1619. R of Benniworth, co. Lincoln 1594, and of Nettleton, co Lincoln 1597, archdeacon of York 1617-23, chantor of York cathedral 1623, until his death in 1624. See Fasti i. 390.
A chaplain in ordinary to James I until he was dismissed from this post. See TNA, SP 16/522/55; 'Reports of Cases in the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission', ed. S.R. Gardiner, Camden Soc. ns 39, 1886, p. 257 (we owe the second reference to Dr Andrew Thrush).