Born at Kendal, Westmoreland, about 1569, he entered The Queen's College, Oxford, in Michaelmas term 1586 as a servitor; he was elected successively tabarder and perpetual fellow.
He was a leader of the nonconformists in Cheshire, and clashed with Thomas Morton as bishop of Chester.
[1] An admirer of John Rainolds, Hinde edited his Prophecie of Obadiah opened and applyed in sundry … sermons, Oxford, 1613, and The Discovery of the Man of Sinne … preached in divers sermons, Oxford, 1614.
With John Dod he wrote Bathshebaes Instructions to her sonne Lemuel: containing a fruitfull … exposition of the last chapter of Proverbs, London, 1614.
[1] His own writings include: John Bruen was probably Hinde's brother-in-law; Hinde's wife Margaret is thought to be a daughter of William Foxe, whose daughter Anne married Bruen as his second wife.