VINCENT, Philip, English clergyman, born near Conisbrough, Yorkshire, England, 20 November, 1600; died probably in England, after 1638. He studied at the University of Cambridge, receiving the degree of A. M., was ordained in 1625, and was rector at Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, till 1629, when he resigned his living. After the death in 1630 of his wife, who was a daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon, a writer on astrology, he began a wandering life, and about 1632 sailed for Guiana. He subsequently travelled in Germany, and in 1637 was in Massachusetts. He published "The True Relation of the Late Battle fought in New England between the English and the Pequot Salvages" (London, 1638), which has been reprinted in the "Collections" of the Massachusetts historical society, 3d series, vol. vi.