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Foster: of Devon, gent. Christ Church, matric. 1 June, 1621, aged 19, B.A. 6 Dec., 1621, M.A. 17 June, 1624, proctor 1629, B.D. 10 Dec., 1631, canon 1638, D.D. 6 July, 1638, public orator 1629-45 (o.s. Philip, y.s. Sir Richard, of Newenham, Devon), "poet and orator"; chaplain to Bishop Corbet 1633, rector of East Bradenham, Norfolk, 1633, vicar of Black Bourton, Oxon, 1638, and of Badby, Northants, 1639-42; died 10 March, 1644, buried in the divinity chapel of Christ Church cathedral. See Ath. iii. 151; & Al. West. 86.