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Foster: of Somerset, gen. fil., ST MARY HALL matric entry under date 27 Mar. 1579 aged 33 - "a person of ingenuity"; R of Naunton, Gloucs. 1570-86; see Foster Ind. Eccl. Ath. i, 540 & D.N.B
This man a theatre playwright, satirist and poet - dates (DNB) 1545/6- 1585/6; much information about this man and his family and his writings is contained in PhD thesis (1981, university of Birmingham) by Roberta Buchanan: who gives his first marriage (to Eleanor Ward) on 8 May 1572 and after her death in 1577 to Mary Whorwood of Lapworth, Warwichshire with whom he had 5 sons - Edmund, Thomas, Ulpian surviving infancy and John and Whorwood dying as babies - and one daughter, Mary.