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Foster: student of Christ Church 1575, B.A. 12 Nov., 1578, M.A. 3 March, 1581-2, B.D. 27 April, 1591, canon 1599, D.D. 14 April, 1600, licenced to preach 17 Nov., 1610, vicar of Long Preston, Yorks, Jan.-Dec., 1588, canon of Exeter 1596, rector of Rampisham, Dorset, 1596, vicar of Flower, Northants, 1601, and of Weedon Bec 1602-4, canon of St. Paul's 1609, rector of Westwell, Oxon, 1615; died 17 May, 1632, aged 75, buried in the divinity chapel of his cathedral, admon. at Oxford 20th. See Ath. ii. 532; D.N.B. [under Hutten]; Alumni West. 151; Foster's Index Eccl.; & Lansdowne MS. 984, ff. 172, 181.
In 1605 chaplain to Archbishop Bancroft of Canterbury: see the dedicatory epistle to his 'An Answere to a Certaine Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme' (Oxford, 1605).