William Foster (born 1591), was an English clergyman and writer.
Foster was the son of William Foster of London, a barber-surgeon, and was born in November 1591. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in July 1607, and two years later (8 December 1609) was admitted of St John's College, Oxford, whence he graduated. Having taken holy orders he became chaplain (1628) to Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon, and soon afterwards rector of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire. The date of his death is unclear.
He published a short treatise against the use of weapon-salve, entitled ‘Hoplo-Crisma Spongus, or a Sponge to wipe away the Weapon-Salve, wherein is proved that the Cure taken up among us by applying the Salve to the Weapon is magical and unlawful’ (1629 and 1641). It attracted attention through the answer made to it on behalf of the Rosicrucians by Dr Robert Fludd in 1631. Francis Osborne also attacked it in an essay ‘On such as condemn all they understand not a reason for’ (1659). The work acknowledges help from Johannes Roberti, a Flemish Jesuit.
George Moberly was an English cleric who was headmaster of Winchester College, and then served as Bishop of Salisbury from 1869 until his death.
Thomas Allen was an English mathematician and astrologer. Highly reputed in his lifetime, he published little, but was an active private teacher of mathematics. He was also well connected in the English intellectual networks of the period.
Benedict Barnham was a London merchant, alderman and sheriff of London and MP.
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John Coldwell (c.1535–1596) was an English physician and bishop.

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Matthew Nicholas (1594–1661) was an English Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
John Gostlin or GostlynMD was an English academic and physician, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1619 and Regius Professor of Physic.
William Burton was an English clergyman, known for his writings, an insider's view of the Puritan ascendancy at Norwich, and as an eyewitness to heresy executions.
Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth, Lincolnshire was an English Member of Parliament.
William Fleetwood was an English lawyer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Marlborough in 1558, Lancaster in 1559 and 1567, and for the City of London several times between 1572 and 1592, but his most significant position was as Recorder of London from 1571 to 1591. A lawyer of the Middle Temple, he was a Queen's Serjeant in 1592.
Thomas Playfere was an English churchman and theologian, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1596.
Thomas Palfreyman was an English author and musician.
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John Villiers was an English courtier from the Villiers family. The eldest son of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont, later Countess of Buckingham, he was the brother of King James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
Edward William Grinfield (1785–1864) was an English biblical scholar.
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