William Tipping

second son of Sir George Tipp. of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordshire Knight, by Dorothy his wife dau. of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks. Esq. was born in Oxfordshire, (at Dreycot I think) became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years, where making a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals, took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London, and spent some time in one of the Inns of Court, but his genie being theologically given, he retired to Oxon, lived a single life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the sake of scholastical company and of books, and was a Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire. In the beginning of the civil War he sided with the Presbyterians, (being always puritanically affected) took the Covenant, and at length was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by the power of Parliament, an. 1647, and the next year was actually created Master of Arts. He hath written,

A discourse of Eternity. Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which, he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping, to distinguish him from others of his sirname.

A return of Thankfulness for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous sickness. Oxon 1640. oct.

A Fathers Counsel: or, directions to young persons. Lond. 1644. oct.

The preachers plea: or, a short declaration touching the sad condition of our Clergy, in relation to the smalness of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom. Lond. 1646. in tw.

The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widdow, deceased in the 21 year of her age. Lond. 1647. in tw. He gave way to fate at Waterstock near to, and in the County of, Oxon, on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight, and was buried on the eighth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there.164 [•] . This person tho born to a fair estate, and so consequently might have taken those pleasures which the generality of Gentlemen do, yet he gave himself solely up to Learning, Piety, and Charity. He gave 20 shillings yearly to Allsaints Parish in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday, and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell house without the north gate of the City, some years before the Rebellion broke out.