Tipping attended Queen's College, Oxford and entered Lincoln's Inn but did not become a lawyer.
He subsequently appeared before the court of high commission several times on charges of puritan practice.
Then The Preachers Plea (1646) and The Remarkable Life and Death of the Lady Apollina Hall (1647).
It is often erroneously stated that two of Tipping's children, William and Dorothy, emigrated to Talbot County, Maryland in 1664.
He married and had a family of six children in Westminster, including Rev Dr Ichabod Tipping, the Vicar of Camberwell.