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 died unmarried in 1747, aged 76 years. John Veale was a justice of the peace for this county, and died in 1704. After the death of John Veale, whose remains were interred at Bispham church, Edward, his only son, inherited the lands and Hall of Whinney Heys. Edward Veale was living at the same time as Thomas Tyldesley, of Fox Hall, Blackpool, and between the two gentlemen a close friendship seems to have existed, as we glean from the diary of the latter, in which Edward Veale is frequently mentioned, being invariably, for some reason, styled Captain,—perhaps he once held that rank in some temporary or reserve force, for there is no record of his ever having been connected with the regular troops. The following is a short extract from the above diary in 1712:—

"Aug. 2.—Att my returne I wentt to y^e King's Arms, and got my din^r with Bro^r. We spent 1s. a pice in whitte wine, and as wee went through y^e hall met with Just. Longworth, Cap^{tt} Veale, Just. Pearson, Franke Nickinson, and small L^d of Roshall. Wee were very merry upon y^e small Lord, and spent 1s. a pice in sack and white wine, w^h elevated y^e petite L^d that before he went to bed he tucke y^e ffriedom of biting his man Sharocke's thumb off just beyond y^e nail. I found cos. W: W: att home."

Edward left issue at his death in 1723, at forty-three years of age—John, Sarah, and Susannah. John Veale, the heir, entered into holy orders, and subsequently died unmarried. Sarah and Susannah Veale, the co-heiresses of their brother, married respectively Edward Fleetwood, of Rossall Hall (the small lord), and John Fayle, of the Holmes, Thornton, who erected Bridge House in Bispham, after the model of the original Hall of Whinney Heys. The lands and residence of Whinney Heys eventually passed into the possession of the Fleetwoods, of Rossall, through the wife of Edward Fleetwood. The Veales were Puritans in religion, and one of the family, named Edward Veale, whose father was the third son of Edward and Ellen Veale mentioned above, and a lay member of the Presbyterian Classis for this district in the time of the Commonwealth, attained considerable eminence, first as a Puritan preacher and afterwards as a Nonconformist minister. Calamy, in his Nonconformist Memorial, tells us that "Mr. Edward Veale, of Christ Church, Oxford,