Reformed Churchmen: Rev. William Veitch, a Storied Scots Covenanting Minister

Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Rev William Veitch was the minister of St Michael's Church in Dumfries. He was born in 1640. A supporter of the Covenants, he was banished and persecuted for some time. After the Glorious Revolution he was inducted as minister of Dumfries in 1694, and served until 1715. His wife died the day before he did, in 1722. Although Veitch's gravestone was known on the wall of the church, it had no surviving inscription. After some deliberation, the following inscription was carved onto a new stone, hewn from Locharbriggs sandstone, and erected by the Scottish Covenanter Memorials Association in 2001: Here lies William Veitch 1640-1722 Covenanter, persecuted and banished Suffered but survived Minister of this Parish 1694--1715 Also His praying, supportive wife, Marion Who predeceased him by one day. New gravestone on St Michael's Church wall to Rev William Veitch, unveiled on 23 September 2001 For more information, see: http://www.archive.org/stream/memorialsstmich00mdogoog#page/n377/mode/2up/search/veitch