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Foster: son of James of St Augustine's Bristol, sacerd (CCE ID 55427) NEW COLLEGE matric. entry 19 Aug. 1634 aged 14; BA 2 Mar. 1637/8; MA 3 Nov. 1640, expelled from his chaplaincy 1648 by parliamentary visitors; perhaps R of Byford, Herefs, 1660-83; father of James (CCEd ID 173617); see Burrows, 350, and Foster Ind. Eccles.
It may be that his time as a vicar choral might not fit with the rest of the entries. Fasti Herefordenses gives his year of election as Vicar Choral in 1643 at a time when he been expelled from a chaplaincy [New College?]; that he was Custos in 1684, was V of Westbury [Vicars Choral were patrons] and that he died 1686/7. A tablet in Hereford cathedral records "James Read, A.M., custos of this college died 3 Jan. 1677 aged 68". Based on his age, this link has been made - born 1620, died 1686/7 or 1687/8