Chelsea College was a polemical college founded in London in 1609. This establishment was intended to centralize controversial writing against Catholicism , and was the idea of Matthew Sutcliffe , Dean of Exeter , who was the first Provost . After his death in 1629 it declined as an institution.
22-738: Chelsea College may refer to: Chelsea College (17th century) , a polemical college founded in London in 1609 Chelsea College of Art and Design Chelsea College of Science and Technology , in London Chelsea College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering , in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, now part of Greater Brighton Metropolitan College Chelsea College of Physical Education, in Eastbourne, East Sussex, now part of
44-508: A failure. In consequence of a letter addressed by the king to Archbishop George Abbot , collections in aid of the institution were made in all the dioceses of England, but the amount raised was small, and hardly covered fees due to the collectors. After Sutcliffe's death the college sank into insignificance, and Charles I in 1636 refused to revive the moribund institution. William Laud thought of it as "controversy college", and he disliked public disputation as divisive. An engraving representing
66-585: A new departure in British historiography, whereby the character and behaviour of historical actors assumed a causal importance in the affairs of state. In 1600, Essex was convicted on charges of abusing his power, and in the following year of treason, whereupon he was put to death. At both trials, Hayward's book was produced in evidence. Hayward himself was remanded to the Tower in July 1600, where he remained until after
88-529: A print of the original design is prefixed to The Glory of Chelsey Colledge revived , published in 1662 by John Darley (rector of Northull in Cornwall) who, in a dedication to Charles II, urged that monarch to grant a fixed revenue to the college. This royal grant was apparently reversed (or repurchased for a sum never handed over). After proposals including an observatory, supported by John Flamsteed but vetoed by Christopher Wren in favour of Greenwich ,
110-573: A site of six acres , crown lands from Westminster Abbey obtained at the Dissolution of the Monasteries , and leased by Sutcliffe from Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham . The College was to have consisted of two quadrangles, with a piazza along the four sides of the smaller court. Only one side of the first quadrangle was ever completed; and this range of buildings cost, according to Thomas Fuller , above £3,000. The charter limited
132-537: A while, though, there was activity and interest in the premises. Francis Kynaston wanted to move his royal academy there, at a point when there were only two resident fellows. From 1641 there was a project to set up a pansophist institution in England, on the visit of Comenius , and the Chelsea College building was mentioned in discussions of a Parliament-backed Universal College; this came to nothing. In
154-470: Is often childish, his descriptions are generally graphic and vigorous. Notwithstanding his imprisonment under Elizabeth, his portrait of the qualities of the queen's mind and person is flattering rather than detractive. He also wrote several works of a devotional character. During his confinement in the Tower, he published The Sanctuarie of a Troubled Soule (1601), which went through a dozen editions and issues. Other similar works proved equally popular, and he
176-463: The University of Brighton Kensington and Chelsea College , in west London Royal Hospital Chelsea , on the site of the 17th century college [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
198-591: The 1650s the College became a prison; and in the Second Anglo-Dutch War of the mid-1660s it housed prisoners of war. John Dury in 1651 advocated that Parliament should renew the charter, and create a centre in the College for intelligencer work; his close colleague Samuel Hartlib also agitated that the revenue should be better spent. The grounds were granted to the Royal Society , and
220-565: The Earl of Essex. Specifically, Hayward was suspected of prophesying the failure of Essex's military campaign in Ireland through a description of the ill-starred efforts of Richard II in that country. On 11 July 1599, following the seizure and burning of a corrected edition of the book, Hayward was interrogated before the Star Chamber . The Queen, "argued that Hayward was pretending to be
242-454: The Life and Raigne of King Henrie IIII - a treatise dealing with the accession of Henry IV and the deposition of Richard II - dedicated to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex . Queen Elizabeth and her advisers disliked the tone of the book and its dedication, and the queen ordered Francis Bacon to search for passages in it that might be drawn within a case of treason being compiled against
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#1732773401430264-576: The Three Norman Kings of England , written at the request of James's son, Prince Henry . He became Chancellor of Lichfield, Staffordshire in 1615. He was a supplicant for incorporation at the University of Oxford in 1616 and became an advocate of Doctors' Commons on 5 August 1616. From 1616 to 1627 he was Master in Chancery . He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 1 August 1619 and was knighted on 9 November 1619. Hayward died in 1627 and
286-459: The author in order to shield 'some more mischievous' person, and that he should be racked so that he might disclose the truth". Bacon reported of the evidence for treason, "surely I find none, but for felony very many", referring to the fact that many of the sentences were stolen from Tacitus . The influence on Hayward of the works of Tacitus, which had only lately been published in English, marked
308-463: The building project, which was only very partially carried through, is in the second volume of Francis Grose 's Military Antiquities (1788). Daniel Featley was provost in 1630 as Sutcliffe's successor. William Slater was provost from 1645. The fourth and last provost was Samuel Wilkinson. The College was dissolved in the Interregnum , by 1655. Nothing of the buildings now remains. For
330-472: The death of Elizabeth. When James I came to the English throne in 1603, Hayward courted the new king's favour by publishing two pamphlets: An Answer to the first part of a certaine conference concerning succession – an argument in favour of the divine right of kings – and A Treatise of Union of England and Scotland . In 1610 Hayward was appointed one of the historiographers of the college which James founded at Chelsea . In 1613 he published his Lives of
352-407: The good offices of John Evelyn . John Hayward (historian) Sir John Hayward (c. 1564 – 27 June 1627) was an English historian , lawyer and politician. Hayward was born at or near Felixstowe , Suffolk , where he was educated, and afterwards went to Pembroke College, Cambridge , where he was awarded BA in 1581, MA in 1584 and LLD in 1591. In 1599 he published The First Part of
374-571: The life and writings of the author. His treatise on the accession of Henry IV was reprinted in 1642. His 1603 pamphlet on the Scottish succession, was reprinted in 1683 as The Right of Succession by the friends of the Duke of York during the struggle over the Exclusion Bill . Hayward was conscientious and diligent in obtaining information, and although his reasoning on questions of morality
396-429: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chelsea_College&oldid=987365836 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chelsea College (17th century) James I of England
418-950: The number of members to a provost and nineteen fellows, of whom seventeen were to be in holy orders. The king himself nominated the members. Sutcliffe was the first provost, and John Overall , Thomas Morton , Richard Field , Robert Abbot , Miles Smith , John Howson , Martin Fotherby , John Spenser , John Prideaux , and John Boys , were among the original fellows, while the lay historians William Camden (a personal friend of Sutcliffe ) and John Hayward were appointed to record and publish to posterity "all memorable passages in church or commonwealth." Other original fellows included Benjamin Carier , John Layfield , Richard Brett , William Covell , Peter Lilly , Francis Burley , John White and William Hellier . Later were Edward Gee , and Nathanael Carpenter . The scheme ultimately proved to be
440-539: The site was devoted to Chelsea Hospital later in the reign of Charles II, with the old name still used in the following years. The king had wanted to keep open the chance of using the site also as a barracks for a standing army . The situation was resolved only when Stephen Fox , the major benefactor to the Hospital, put up £1,300 of his own money for its purchase, and made a deal with the Royal Society through
462-614: Was buried in parish of St Bartholomew the Great , London. Among his manuscripts was found The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI , first published in 1630, and Certain Yeres of Queen Elizabeth's Raigne , the beginning of which was printed in an edition of his Edward VI, published in 1636, but which was first published in a complete form in 1840 for the Camden Society under the editorship of John Bruce, who prefixed an introduction on
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#1732773401430484-413: Was one of its foremost patrons, and supported it by grants and benefactions; he himself laid the first stone of the new edifice on 8 May 1609; gave timber for the building out of Windsor forest; and in the original charter of incorporation, bearing date 8 May 1610, ordered that it should be called "King James's College at Chelsey." Building was begun on a piece of ground called Thame Shot (or Thames Shot),
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