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Foster: of Devon, gent. St. Alban Hall, matric. 15 May, 1595, aged 16; fellow Exeter Coll. 1596-1611, B.A. 8 July, 1599, M.A. 29 April, 1602, B.D. 27 March, 1610, D.D. 2 July, 1611, rector of his college 1642-9, built the chapel, admitted of Lincoln's Inn in 1614 (3s. John, of Exeter), archdeacon of Surrey 1617, chaplain to Prince Charles, rector of Heanton Punchardon 1611 until his death, buried there 5 April, 1649, aged 72; brother of William 1613, and father of John 1633. See Lansdowne MS. 985, f. 140; Ath. iii. 253; Boase, 53, 67; Burrows, 500; D.N.B.