Foster: B.A. from Magdalen Coll. 23 May, 1614, M.A. from Magdalen Hall 7 March, 1616-7, incorporated at Cambridge 1623 (born at Reading, his father twice mayor), preacher at Lechlade, co. Gloucester, rector of Nettlestead, Kent, 1643-7, chaplain to the Earl of Northumberland, licenced lecturer at Isleworth, Middlesex, 14 years; vicar of St. Giles, Reading, 1649, until his death 28 Jan., 1677-8; brother of John 1615, and Samuel 1621, father of John 1657, and of Samuel 1655. See Ath. iii. 1147.