Hamond was educated at
Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated M.A. He studied also (perhaps previously) at
Trinity College Dublin, where he was
elected a Scholar and attracted the notice of Archbishop
James Ussher. His first known charge was the vicarage of
Totnes,
Devon, from which William Adams had been dispossessed during the Commonwealth. In 1660 he was admitted to the rectory of St. Peter's and vicarage of Trinity,
Dorchester. Hamond was ejected by the
Act of Uniformity 1662, his successor being appointed on 30 June 1663. After the
Royal Declaration of Indulgence of 1672, a
Presbyterian meeting-house was built at
Taunton, and Hamond was associated with
George Newton as its minister. He also kept a boarding-school, to which several persons of rank sent their sons. The Taunton meeting-house was wrecked after
Monmouth's rebellion (1685), and Hamond left London. Here he became colleague to
Richard Steele at
Armourers' Hall,
Coleman Street, and on Steele's death (16 November 1692) sole pastor. In 1699 he succeeded
William Bates as one of the Tuesday lecturers at
Salters' Hall, and died in October 1705. His congregation was probably already extinct. ==Works==