1590, but whether at Cassington or Yeate is uncertain (see his epitaph as put up by himself in Cassington church during his lifetime; Hearne, Dodwell).
Neal is regarded as the ultimate authority for the ‘Nag's Head Story.’ But the statements that Bonner sent him to Bishop Anthony Kitchin [q. v.] to dissuade him from assisting in the consecration of Parker, and that he was present at the pretended ceremony at the Nag's Head, rest on the doubtful assertion of Pits.
Neal's works are: 1. ‘Dialogus in adventum serenissimæ Reginæ Elizabethæ gratulatorius inter eandem Reginam et D. Rob. Dudleium comitem Leicestriæ et Acad. Ox. cancellarium’ (Tanner speaks of this as ‘Gratulationem Hebraicam’), together with ‘Collegiorum scholarumque publicarum Ac. Ox. Topographica delineatio,’ being verses written to accompany drawings of the colleges and public schools of Oxford by John Bearblock [q. v.] Neal's work was first printed imperfectly by Miles Windsor in ‘Academiarum Catalogus,’ London, 1590; reprinted by Hearne, Oxford, 1713, at the end of his edition of ‘Dodwell de Parma Equestri;’ also by Nichols in his ‘Progresses of Elizabeth,’ i. 225; by the Oxford Historical Society (vol. viii.), and reproduced in facsimile, Oxford, 1882 (cf. Wood, Athenæ Oxon. i. 576). 2. ‘Commentarii Rabbi Davidis Kimhi in Haggæum, Zachariam, et Malachiam prophetes ex Hebraico idiomate in Latinum sermonem traducti,’ Paris, 1557, dedicated to Cardinal Pole. Tanner also assigns to Neal: 3. A translation ‘of all the Prophets’ out of the Hebrew. 4. A translation of ‘Commentarii Rabbi Davidis Kimhi super Hoseam, Joelem, Amos, Abdeam, Micheam, Nahum, Habacuc, et Sophoniam’ (dedicated to Queen Elizabeth). Tanner quotes this and No. 5 thus: ‘MS. Bibl. Reg. Westmon. 2 D. xxi.’ 5. ‘Rabbinicæ quædam observationes ex prædictis commentariis’ (possibly identical with, although Tanner distinctly separates it from, ‘Breves quædam observationes in eosdem prophetes partim ex Hieronymo partim ex aliis probatæ fidei authoribus decerptæ.’ The latter is appended to No. 2 above.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. i. 576, et passim; Fasti, and Hist. and Antiq. of Oxford; Oxford Univ. Registers; Kirby's Winchester Scholars, p. 117; Plummer's Elizabethan Oxford (Oxford Hist. Soc.); Hearne's Remains, ii. 199, and his edition of Dodwell de Parma Equestri (contains a life of Neal by Hearne, based on Wood); State Papers, Dom. 1547–80; Hist. MSS. Com. 4th Rep. p. 217 a; Le Neve's Fasti; Strype's Annals, I. i. 48; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Pits, De illustribus Angliæ Scriptoribus; John Bearblock's Ephemeræ Actiones, p. 282, printed by Hearne, Oxford, 1729; Fuller's Church History, ii. 367, iv. 290, and Worthies, i. 384; Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Lansdowne MS. 982, f. 160; Harl. MS. 169, f. 26; information from the Rev. G. Montagu, rector of Thenford.]
NEALE. [See also Neal, Neele, Neile and Neill.]
NEALE, ADAM, M.D. (d. 1832), army physician and author, was born in Scotland and educated in Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. on 13 Sept. 1802, his thesis being published as ‘Disputatio de Acido Nitrico,’ 8vo, Edinburgh. He was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London, on 25 June 1806, and during the Peninsular war acted as physician to the forces, being also one of the physicians extraordinary to the Duke of Kent. In 1809 he published, in ‘Letters from Portugal and Spain,’ an interesting account of the operations of the armies under Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, from the landing of the troops in Mondego Bay to the battle of Coruña. Neale subsequently visited Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey, where he was physician to the British embassy at Constantinople, and in 1818 gave to the public a description of his tour in ‘Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey,’ 4to, London, 1818, with fifteen coloured plates. About 1814 he settled at Exeter, but removed to Cheltenham in 1820. There he attempted to attract notice by publishing a pamphlet in which he cast a doubt on the genuineness of the waters as served to visitors at the principal spring. It was called ‘A Letter to a Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh respecting the Nature and Properties of the Mineral Waters of Cheltenham,’ 8vo, London, 1820. This discreditable pamphlet was soberly answered by Dr. Thomas Jameson of Cheltenham, in ‘A Refutation,’ &c., and more categorically in ‘Fact versus Assertion,’ by William Henry Halpin the younger, and in ‘A Letter’ by Thomas Newell. The controversy was ended by a satirical pamphlet entitled ‘Hints to a Physician on the opening of his Medical Career at Cheltenham,’ 8vo, Stroud, 1820. As the result of these tactics, Neale was obliged in a few months to return to Exeter. In 1824 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of physician to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He accordingly went to London, and resided for some time at 58 Guilford Street, Russell Square, but died at Dunkirk on 22 Dec. 1832. His sons,
