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Foster: son of Robert of Pimperne, Dorset, pleb., CORPUS CHRISTI matric 15 Dec. 1637 aged 15; student from CHRIST CHURCH; BA 25 June 1641; MA, B&DD 8 July 1673; R Gt. Fontmell, Dorset 1672-85; canon of Sarum 1672 and of Gloucester 1672; dean of Gloucester 1673; Bishop of Gloucester 1681 until deprived 1 Feb. 1690/1 for refusing to take oaths of allegiance and supremacy. R of Avening 1684-5; licensed 29 Jan 1666/7 to marry Mary Canning of Foxcote, parish of Ilmington, co. Warwick. Died Whitsunday 25 May 1708 aged 86. See Lansdowne MS 987, f.310; Ath. iv, 890; Foster Ind. Eccl; Hearne, ii, 112; London Marriage Licences ed. Foster & D.N.B.