The information in the Cambridge alumni records is very vague, and there is an addendum noting that a John Howse was rector for Eastwell. While no documentary proof was found connecting these two men, it's a likely match, since Rev. Howse of Eastwell would have gotten a college education somewhere to qualify as a minister in the Church of England. He was first a curate for the Egerton, Kent, parish, appointed by Bishop John Whitgift on 19 April 1592.3 The record says he had a Bachelor of Arts degree. He was still serving Egerton when a "visitation" or census of clergy was taken on 2 April 1599, the record for which says he had a Masters degree. The Bishop's records don't say who replaced John at Egerton, but on 15 August 1610, Rev. John Lothrop was appointed. He immigrated to New England and became a prominent clergyman there. The Howse and Lothrop families would have known each other by proximity, and even more so when John married John Howse's sister Hannah, also in 1610.
     By 4 April 1603, John was settled as rector for Eastwell parish by Bishop Whitgift.4 This and subsequent visitation records continue to say he had an MA. Does this mean he got this degree while in Egerton? Unless the St. John's College records are lacking, he didn't do so at Cambridge or Oxford Universities. The appointment was approved by Sir Moyle Finch, who held the manor of Eastwell and its avowdson (right to choose a rector). John presumably officiated at his burial on 18 January 1614/15. John's burial is recorded in the Eastwell records in this way: The seconde day of September was buried Mr. John Howse a reverent precher and minister of this parish. The name of the mother of John's children isn't recorded. By the time he died he was married to a woman named Alice, but no marriages for John appear to have been recorded. She was likely the Alice Howse buried on 17 June 1640 in Eastwell. It's possible that John's first wife died between 1595 and 1603, which would explain the wide gap in his children's baptisms.

children of John Howse:

If John married a woman (possibly Alice) who was about 16 or 17 at the time, she was born about 1574 and could have had all of John's children, the last when she was about 43-45, which was within the norm for female fertilty barring other circumstances.

i. Elizabeth, b. abt. 1591
ii. Hannah, bap. 5 May 1594, Egerton, Kent
iii. Peninah, bap. 11 April 1595, Egerton, Kent

1595-1603 - more children possibly born in Egerton where records are lacking or in a different parish

iv. John, bap. 19 June 1603, Eastwell, Kent, hereafter
v. Priscilla, bap. 25 August 1605
vi. Thomas, bap. 21 August 1608
vii. Samuel, bap. 10 June 1610
viii. Henry, bap. 28 June 1612
ix. Hannah, b. abt. 1614
x. Drusilla, b. abt. 1616-1619

vital records sources:

1. Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK: 1922), 418.
2. Google Dictionary.
3. "Clergy of the Church of England" database online [https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/]. 4. A "Liber Cleri" taken on 4 April 1603 says John was rector there. Bishop Whitgift's records suppsedly say the appointment was on 29 April, but this may have been when the appointment was recorded rather than made. 5. 6.