His father temperately pleaded for his restoration, and wrote to a bishop, probably Horn of Winchester, soliciting his help in the matter.
Meanwhile, Samuel spent more than three years in foreign travel, visiting the universities of Leipzig, Padua, and Basle.
His father gave him a lease of Shipton, Wiltshire, attached to the prebend which the elder Foxe held in Salisbury Cathedral.
In 1587 he was admitted into the service of Sir Thomas Heneage of Copt Hall, Essex, and became custodian of Havering-atte-Bower and clerk of Epping.
The parliament in which he sat was of very brief duration, but it passed—probably with Foxe's aid—a valuable and much needed act directed against abuses in the election to fellowships, scholarships, and similar positions.
His ‘Diary,’ very brief and extending over only a portion of his life, will be found in the appendix to Strype's ‘Annals.’ The original is in British Library Lansdowne 679.
The latter pieces are printed in William Winters' Biographical Notes on John Foxe the Martyrologist, 1876.
A letter describing Ben Jonson's reception at Oxford, written by Thomas Foxe to his father, is preserved in Harley MS 416, at f. 226, and has been printed by William Winters.
He wrote to his elder brother an interesting letter descriptive of the trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset.