Edward Veel or Veal (c. 1632–1708) was an English academic,

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and

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Life

Veel was born, probably in

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, about 1632. He matriculated at

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, on 27 February 1651, and graduated B.A. 13 February 1652, M.A. 21 February 1654. Between those graduation dates, he was elected fellow of

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, and was promoted to a senior fellowship before 24 November 1656. On 14 August 1657 he was ordained at Winwick, Lancashire, by the fourth Lancashire

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; this was on a call from the parish of

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, where he had officiated from 1655, with a stipend under the civil establishment of

Henry Cromwell Henry Cromwell (20 January 1628 – 23 March 1674) was the fourth son of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier, and an important figure in the Parliamentarian regime in Ireland. Biography Early life Henry Cromwell – the fourth son of Oli ...

. On 3 July 1661 Veel was made B.D. at Trinity College. Shortly afterwards he was deprived for nonconformity, and, having received a certificate (31 December 1661) of his eminent usefulness from

Stephen Charnock Stephen Charnock (1628–27 July 1680), Puritan divine, was an English Puritan Presbyterian clergyman born at the St Katherine Cree parish of London. Life Charnock studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, during which he was converted to the Ch ...

and five other nonconformist divines, he left Ireland in January 1662. He became chaplain to

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, after whose death in 1668 he was pastor to a small congregation at New Stairs,

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. He kept also a

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for "university learning"; among his pupils was

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. Veel died on 6 June 1708, aged 76. His funeral sermon was preached in the parish church of Wapping by Thomas Simmons (d. March 1717–18), his successor.

Works

Besides sermons (some in the '' Morning Exercises at Cripplegate''), Veel published two volumes of ''Discourses'', 1703, and 1705. He contributed to

Matthew Poole Matthew Poole (1624–1679) was an English Non-conformist theologian and biblical commentator. Life to 1662 He was born at York, the son of Francis Pole, but he spelled his name Poole, and in Latin Polus; his mother was a daughter of Alderman T ...

's '' Annotations upon the Holy Bible'' of (1683).

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Veel, Edward 1632 births 1708 deaths Ejected English ministers of 1662 Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Dissenting academy tutors Irish Congregationalist ministers Irish Presbyterian ministers