Education
He was educated as a sizar at Emmanuel College and Queens" College, Cambridge.
He was educated as a sizar at Emmanuel College and Queens" College, Cambridge.
Sidrach Simpson came from Lincolnshire. The others in the group were William Bridge, Jeremiah Burroughs, Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye, all with a comparable Dutch background as ministers (Burroughs and Simpson both in Rotterdam), and united in a form of Congregationalism He was also in the group of ten, dominated by Independents, condemning in 1652 the Racovian Catechism, with Nye and Bridge, six further Independents,John Dury, and Adoniram Byfield. He became Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1650, but was drifting in his last years to the outer extremes in his positions.
He was preoccupied by his concurrent post as rector in London, at Street Mary Abchurch, and then from 1653 at Street Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange.
Oliver Cromwell had him imprisoned for aggressive preaching.