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Foster: student of Christ Church 1570, B.A. 19 Feb., 1573-4, M.A. 27 June, 1577, prebendary of Bristol 1587, and of Westminster 1602, rector of Wetheringsett, Suffolk, 1590, and as one of the chaplains of the Savoy was licenced 30 March, 1604 (then 7 years a widower and aged 52), to marry Frances, widow of William Smithe, of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, gent., deceased; rector of Gedney, co. Lincoln, 1612; buried in Westminster Abbey 26 Nov., 1616. See Lansdowne MS. 983, f. 273; Foster's Index Eccl.; London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster; Ath. ii. 186; Al. West. 48; Westminster Abbey Reg.; & D.N.B.