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Foster: of Kent, pleb. Broadgates Hall, matric. 13 March, 1606-7, aged 17; B.A. from Lincoln Coll., (detd.) 1615-16, M.A. 11 May, 1618; B.D. from Pembroke Coll. 6 July, 1627, D.D. 22 June, 1632, chaplain to Richard Corbet, bishop of Oxford, canon of Sarum 1631, vicar of Barton-Turf, and of Neateshead, Norfolk, 1633, of Felixstowe, and of Walton, Suffolk, 1636, rector of Burnham St. Mary, and Margaret All Saints, Norfolk, 1640, chaplain to Charles I.; lost his spiritualities during the rebellion, but reinstated at the restoration; died at Sittingbourne, Kent, 22 Dec., 1661, aged 72. See Ath. iii. 526.