Foster: s. Richard, of West Stafford, Dorset, sacerd. Trinity Coll., matric. 6 April, 1647, aged 18; student Christ Church by visitors 1648, B.A. 23 Feb., 1649-50, M.A. 24 June, 1652; incorporated at Cambridge 1653, rector of Frome Billett and West Stafford, Dorset, 1663. See Burrows, 493, 552.