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Foster: of Gloucs., pleb. SAINT ALBAN HALL matric. 3 June 1608 aged 18; BA 27 May 1611; MA 8 July 1614
See "John Workman, Puritan Lecturer in Gloucester", J N Langston, 1945 in Vol 66, pp. 219-232 of Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society; also details in www.workmanfamily.org which gives details of his family; father was William, mother Elizabeth Cocks, he was born 1590 in Lashborough, Gloucs; buried in St Nicholas Gloucester 12 Jan. 1640/1; hated by Laud, then dean of Gloucester, tried, imprisoned, excommunicated, returned to Gloucester but was prevented from teaching in school or carrying on any other profession, and was probably made ill and mad from this treatment