Comments
The only DD in V/F at this time is FOSTER: (as BERNARDE) student of CHRIST CHURCH 1564, B.A. 25 June 1566, M.A. 10 June 1569, D.D. 2 April 1582 and June 1585, canon 1577, vice chancellor 1586 (son of Thomas 1546) died in Sept. 1588, buried in the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, admon. granted at Oxford 31 Aug. 1588 as Bernard. See Cooper, i.459; & Fasti i.232.
but the V. of Ardington was already DD in 1581, the year before the above. One of the dates is possibly a clerical error; Arlington was in the gift of the Dean & Chapter of Oxford, which argues for the link.