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Archbishop of York - see Oxford DNB.
Foster: born at South Hinxsey, Berks, demy of Magdalen Coll. 1542, B.A. supd. June, 1545, fellow 1545, 1548-59, M.A. sup. 1549, B.D. 5 July, 1558, D.D. 18 Feb., 1565-6, master of Balliol Coll. 1570-1, dean of Christ Church 1571-6 (perhaps rector of St. Edmund-the-King, Lombard Street, 1545-57, and vicar of West Ham, Essex, 1554), rector of Quainton, Bucks, 1558-67, prebendary and dean of Chester 1567, rector of Laingdon, Essex, 1567-73, and of Fillingham, co. Lincoln, 1570, dean of Salisbury 1572, bishop of Rochester 1576, and lord high almoner, bishop of Salisbury 1577 archbishop of York 1589-94 (as Piers), until his death at Bishopthorpe 28 Sept., 1594; buried in York Minster. See O.H.S. xi. 210; Ath. ii. 835; Al. West. 11; Bloxam, iv. 93; Chetham Misc. v. p. 5; Lansdowne MS. 982, ff. 205-20-25.