'Elias born 1612 is recorded by Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1744 (Oxford 1891) 2:568, as of New Inn Hall, Oxford, matriculated 7 May 1632 aet. 20, B.A. 7 June 1632, M.A. 23 April 1635, and is alleged to have succeeded his father as rector of Chaffcombe, but the father was immediately succeeded on 22 Nov. 1642 by Peter Cox (F. W. Weaver, Somerset Incumbents [Bristol 1889] p. 327).'