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Lincolnshire". As Frank Stenton wrote, "It is undoubtedly through the new materials which he made available to historians that Canon Foster contributed most to knowledge. But it should also be remembered that he saved innumerable documents
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records in 1902. After his appointment as vicar of
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Foster's interest in historical scholarship began early. His first book, a history of the Wilmer family, was published in 1888. His time at
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Lincolnshire, and also the county and diocese's medieval records, the latter of which became his focus in the 1920s. He produced a calendar of 13th-century
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from destruction or decay ... through him the records which illustrate past have become part of the fabric of
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