Foster: of Westmorland, perhaps B.A. from St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1540-1, M.A. 1544, fellow 1548, B.D. 1551, and perhaps sup. for D.D. (Oxford) 12 July, 1574, after 15 years in theology, D.D. Cambridge 1575, as M.A. of 12 years standing; vicar of Wasperton 1543, rector of Wolverdington 1554, and vicar of Ansley (all) Warwick, 1554, canon 1560, and dean of Worcester 1571, vicar of Blockley, co. Worcester, 1560, and rector of Hampton Lucy, co. Warwick, 1569, died 20 July, 1586, buried in his cathedral; father of Thomas 1585. See Cooper, ii. 5; O.H.S. xii. 48; Fasti, i. 123, 139; & Lansdowne MS. 982, f. 98.