FOSTER: pleb., BNC, 13 Oct. 1656; created MA 6 Nov. 1661; BD 1669; (a shoemaker's son of Hereford *); R of Credenhill, Herefs; domestic chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; minister of Teddington, Middx where he died and was buried 10 Oct. 1674; see Ath. iii, 1016
*some debate as to who his father was - some state it was Philip, innkeeper and mayor of Hereford. His school was Hereford cathedral school. Ord. deacon 1657 and was reader at Credenhill but not ordained priest until Charles IIs restoration in 1660.
Thomas Traherne was the metaphysical and spiritual poet, now much revered and admired in the Anglican church, but his poetical works were not known in his lifetime, were lost for a very long time and only found by chance for sale on a Ledbury street bookstall in 1896/7 and not first published until 1903 and 1910