Comments
Foster: s. Thomas, of East Kirkby, co. Lincoln, pleb. Lincoln Coll., matric. 27 Jan., 1625-6, aged 17, B.A. 1 June, 1627, M.A. 10 April, 1630 (incorporated at Cambridge 1633), fellow 1630-48, B.D. 9 July, 1640; "a high-flown Socinian," and "a desperate zealot for the king's cause," rector of Benniworth, co. Lincoln, 1651. See Foster's Index Eccl.; Burrows, 508; & Fasti, i. 515.
See Walker Revised, pp. 28, 227.
Resigned as Master of Sandwich School later in 1637; Rector of Benniworth 1648-53. See V. Green, 'The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427-1977 (Oxford, 1979), pp. 181, 612.