Editing Daniel Neal

{{Short description|English historian (1678–1743)}}
[[file:Portrait of Daniel Neal M.A (4670215).jpg|thumb|Portrait of Neal by [[William Holl the Elder]]]]
'''Daniel Neal''' (14 December 1678{{snd}}4 April 1743) was an [[England|English]] [[historian]].

==Biography==
Born in [[London]], he was educated at the [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]], and at the universities of [[University of Utrecht|Utrecht]] and [[University of Leiden|Leiden]]. In 1704 he became assistant minister, and in 1706 sole minister, of an independent congregation worshipping in [[Aldersgate|Aldersgate Street]], and afterwards in Jewin Street, London, where he remained almost until his death. He married Elizabeth Lardner (d. 1748), by whom he had one son, Nathanael, and two daughters.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Neal, Daniel|volume=19|page=320}}</ref>

In 1720 Neal published his ''History of [[New England]]'', which obtained for its author the honorary degree of [[Master's degree|MA]] from [[Harvard University|Harvard College]]. He also undertook to assist Dr John Evans in writing a history of [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Nonconformity]]. Evans, however, died in 1730, and, making use of his papers for the period before 1640, Neal wrote the whole of the work himself.<ref name="EB1911"/>

This ''[[History of the Puritans (book)|History of the Puritans]]'' deals with the time between the [[Protestant Reformation]] and 1689; the first volume appearing in 1732, and the fourth and last in 1738. The first volume was attacked in 1733 for unfairness and inaccuracy by [[Isaac Maddox]], afterwards [[bishop of St Asaph]] and [[bishop of Worcester]], to whom Neal replied in a pamphlet, ''A Review of the principal facts objected to in the first volume of the History of the Puritans''; and the remaining volumes by [[Zachary Grey]] (1688–1766), to whom the author made no reply.<ref name="EB1911"/>

''The History of the Puritans'' was edited, in five volumes, by Dr [[Joshua Toulmin]] (1740–1815), who added a life of Neal in 1797. This was reprinted in 1817, and an edition in two volumes was published in New York in 1844.<ref name="EB1911"/>

==References==
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==Additional Literature==
* Bracy V. Hill II: ''Faithful Accounts? The Hampton Court Conference and The King James Bible in Early Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Histories''. In: ''Reformation'' 16, 2011. S. 113–144. Online: <https://web.archive.org/web/20160518203311/http://essential.metapress.com/content/t524766nn78131p0/fulltext.pdf>
* Bracy V. Hill II: ''Suffering for their Consciences: The Depiction of Anabaptists and Baptists in the Eighteenth-Century Histories of Daniel Neal''. In: ''Welsh Journal of Religious History'' 5, 2010. S. 84–113.  Reprint Online In "The Baptist History & Heritage" 9, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 39-67 : <http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Suffering+for+their+consciences%3a+the+depiction+of+anabaptists+and...-a0393654230>
* Laird Okie: ''Daniel Neal and the "Puritan Revolution"''. In: ''Church History'' 55:4, 1986. S. 456–467.
* Laird Okie: ''Neal, Daniel (1678–1743)''. In: ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Online: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19817>
* John Seed: ''Dissenting Histories: Religious Division and The Politics of Memory in Eighteenth-Century England''. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2008. {{ISBN|0748621512}}
* Joshua Toulmin: ''[https://archive.org/stream/historyofpuritan011843neal#page/n25/mode/2up Memoir of the Life of Daniel Neal, A.M.]''. In: Daniel Neal: ''The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists''. Hrsg. von Joshua Toulmin, durchgesehen und annotiert von John O. Choules. Harper & Brothers, New York 1843.
* Walter Wilson: ''[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009707226 The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark: Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time: With an Appendix on the Origin, Progress, and Present State of Christianity in Britain]''. 4 Bände. W. Button, London 1814. Bes. Band III, S. 91ff.

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