Comments
Foster: son of Robert ap Robert, of Mellteyrn, co. Carnarvon; chaplain of New College Oxford, BA 17/02/1574 ns, MA 27/06/1577, BD 27/03/1591, DD supd. 28/06/1605; of Gray's Inn 1606, rector of Mellteyrn 1572-81, of Langton, Oxon, 1581-1600, prebendary of Bangor 1584, rector of Aberdaron, co. Carnarvon 1588, archdeacon of Anglesey 1598, dean 1593, and bishop of Bangor 1598, rector of Trefdaeth, Angelsey, 1601, vicar of Llanrhaiadr-in-Kimmerch 1602, and rector of Llanrhaiadr, co. Denbigh, 1612, until his death 06/07/1616, buried in the cathedral. See Ath. ii. 854; Lansdowne MSS 983, f. 285, and 984, f. 34; Gutch, i. 572; Fasti. i, 311.