Background
His father William Dyke was a minister at Hempstead, Essex, dispossessed for nonconformity, and then a preacher at Coggeshall. And Daniel Dyke was his brother.
His father William Dyke was a minister at Hempstead, Essex, dispossessed for nonconformity, and then a preacher at Coggeshall. And Daniel Dyke was his brother.
He was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1598, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1602 and Master of Arts
In 1605. He then became a Fellow of the College. After taking orders he was preferred briefly to the living of Toft, Cambridgeshire, and then Epping in Essex in 1609, which he held till his death. Thomas Fuller says he was "guardian of his brother"s works", which he published in 1635.