Philip's father's name was Richard and his mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Rokeby, another Yorkshire family.
He married Frances, daughter of Sir Heydon in Norfolk when he was about twenty-five and they had three children Francis, John and Henry.
Philip also stated that his mother, father, and aunt died within seven weeks of each other in 1617, but Orr suggests that the deaths may have been even closer together according to the Coningsborough Register.
This is an extended and gruesome illustrated account of atrocities committed during the ongoing religious wars in Germany.
The author of these works may have been the Philip Vincent, baptized in 1600 at Conisbrough, Yorkshire, and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.