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Foster: of co. Carmarthen, gent. Jesus Coll., matric. 20 Nov., 1607, aged 18; B.A. 20 Feb., 1608-9, M.A. 5 July, 1611; fellow All Souls' Coll., B. and D.D. 3 July, 1624, rector of Easington, Oxon, 1630, and of Elmley chapel, Kent, 1631, the famous royalist principal of Jesus Coll. 1620-1, and again 1630 until deprived in 1648, restored 1660, resigned 1661 (s. Sir Francis, bart.), prebendary of St. Davids, treasurer of Llandaff 1631; died 1 May, 1665; half brother of John 1627. See Gutch, i. 585; Burrows, 503; Foster's Index Eccl.; & Add. MS. 15,670, pp. 31, 75, 125.