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Foster: of Kent, pleb. Merton Coll., matric. 26 Jan., 1615-16, aged 15; demy Magdalen Coll. 1619-20, B.A. 11 Dec., 1619, fellow 1620-39, M.A. 3 July 1622 (incorporated at Cambridge 1626), B.D. 18 May, 1631, D.D. 29 April, 1639, vice 1634, and president of his college 1644-8 and 1660-1, rector of Eastmansted Chenies, Bucks, 1631, rector of Broughton Poges, Oxon, 1632-8, of Little Laver, Essex, 1637, and of Monk Eleigh, Suffolk, 1638-9, canon of Winchester 1638, dean of Worcester 1660, until he died 24 Oct., 1661; buried in the college chapel. See Ath. iv. 300n.; Lansdowne MS. 986, f. 1.; Bloxam, v. 82; Burrows, 513.