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FOSTER: s. John, of Cardington, Salop. sacerd. MERTON COLL. matric. 30 Oct. 1635, aged 16; B.A. 4 July 1639, fellow ALL SOULS' COLL, M.A. 27 Feb. 1642-3, B.& D.D. 15 June 1666 and warden 1665-87, rector of Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset 1660, vicar of Taunton St Magdalen 1662, canon residentiary and treasurer of Sarum cathedral 1679 until his death 5 Jan. 1686-7; buried in his college chapel; will at Oxford proved 4 Feb. 1687; father of Gilbert. See Lansdowne MS. 987, ff. 83-93; Gutch i.299; Burrows 474, 522; Fasti ii.291; & Ath. iv.4.