38-644: True Reportory is the short-title of a 24,000 word early American colonial narrative, A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warre , Iuly 15. 1610 . The author William Strachey was a passenger on the Sea Venture ,
76-539: A 150-seat theatre, reception and seminar rooms, and facilities for music practice. The theatre inside the Queen's Building is frequently utilized by the College for various purposes, such as lectures, Music Society concerts, admissions open day talks, and is a conference venue. Designed by the architects Sir Michael and Patty Hopkins , the Queen's Building is constructed using Ketton stone . The architectural design combines
114-749: A family connection to obtain the position of secretary to Thomas Glover , the English ambassador to Turkey . He travelled to Constantinople , but quarrelled with the ambassador and was dismissed in March 1607 and returned to England in June 1608. He then decided to mend his fortunes in the New World , and in 1609 purchased two shares in the Virginia Company and sailed to Virginia on the Sea Venture with Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers in
152-548: A large building in South Court completed in 1911 and initially used as lecture rooms. The library was extended in 1974. There is a large fish pond in the grounds, part of the legacy of the friary. The pond is home to a colony of ducks . The Fellows' Garden contains a swimming pool that was the friars' bathing pool, making it one of the oldest bathing pools in Europe and allegedly the oldest outdoor pool in continuous use in
190-525: A one-sixth share in the Blackfriars Theatre . Strachey, there is no manner of doubt on the evidence and from the signature of his deposition, was the well-known voyager and writer whose account of the Bermuda voyage left its marks on Shakespeare’s Tempest . He gave evidence in the suit as ‘William Strachey, of Crowhurst, Surrey, gentleman, aged 34’ on 4 July 1606. Strachey became friends with
228-429: A subject of scholarly debate because of its alleged influence on Shakespeare's The Tempest . Since the 19th century it has been generally accepted that one or more of the 1609 Bermuda shipwreck documents must have been a source for Shakespeare 's play, and thus was used to establish a terminus a quo for its date of composition. In the 19th century Silvester Jourdain 's pamphlet, A Discovery of The Barmudas (1609),
266-514: A widow whose first name was Dorothy, by whom he does not appear to have had any issue. Strachey's son, William, married three times, and died in 1635. Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge . The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay , Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I . The site on which
304-651: A year, during which they constructed two small boats in which they eventually completed the voyage to Virginia. Strachey wrote an eloquent letter dated 15 July 1610, to an unnamed "Excellent Lady" in England about the Sea Venture disaster, including an account of the precarious state of the Jamestown colony. Being critical of the management of the colony, it was suppressed by the Virginia Company. After
342-463: Is Strachey's account of these incidents, first published in 1625 in an anthology of new world colonial literature assembled by Samuel Purchas . In 2001, Ivor Noël Hume published a much shorter and less literary version of the text transcribed from a manuscript discovered in Bermuda in 1983, which he suggests is a copy of a rough draft that was later revised by Strachey. Aside from its historical and literary importance, Strachey's narrative has become
380-529: Is the society of all postgraduate students at Emmanuel College. The Room itself is a comfortable and well-equipped space in Furness Lodge. The MCR committee organises regular social events for graduate students, including well-attended formal dinners in hall every few weeks. There are numerous student societies and sports clubs at Emmanuel College. Sports clubs include tennis, badminton, cricket, squash, rugby, football, hockey and netball. Societies include
418-428: Is the society of all undergraduate students at Emmanuel College. It provides a shop, a bar, a common room, and funding for sports and other societies. ECSU's Executive Committee is elected at the end of Michaelmas Term each year. The ECSU committee is staffed by undergraduates and holds such positions as President, Welfare Officer, and Ents Officer amongst others. The Emmanuel College Middle Combination Room (Emma MCR)
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#1732794382273456-670: The Powhatan is one of only two records of the language (the other being Captain John Smith 's). Strachey remained at Jamestown for less than a year, but during that time he became the Secretary of the Colony after the drowning death of Matthew Scrivener in 1609. He returned to England probably in late 1611 and published a compilation of the colonial laws put in place by the governors. He then produced an extended manuscript about
494-485: The flagship of the supply fleet that sailed to the English colony of Virginia from Plymouth in June 1609. During a hurricane it wrecked off the coast of Bermuda, where the survivors built two pinnaces , Patience and Deliverance, to continue the journey. They arrived in Jamestown in May 1610 and found the colony suffering from famine and Indian attacks that had reduced the 600 colonists to fewer than 70. True Reportory
532-555: The Children of the Revels under Nathaniel Giles , with Evans as landlord and partner, occupied the theatre for some years. Evans assigned his rights in the property and the company in two stages, first one-half in sixths to [Edward] Kirkham, [Thomas] Kendall and [William] Rastell, and subsequently the second half in sixths to John Marston , William Strachey, and his own wife. There were later complications. But in 1606 William Strachey had
570-1022: The Emmanuel College Music Society (ECMS), the Christian Union, the Mountaineering Society, the Emmanuel Vegan Society, the Politics and Economics Society, ROAR (the college satirical newspaper), and the Emmanuel College Board Games Society. Funding for societies comes from the Emmanuel College Students Union (ECSU). Emmanuel graduates were prominently involved in the settling of British colonies in North America. Of
608-657: The Exchequer to Elizabeth I . The site had been occupied by a Dominican friary until the Dissolution of the Monasteries 45 years earlier, after which the Vice-Chancellor petitioned that the place be given over to the University; his request was refused. After passing through several hands, the former monastery was purchased for £550 to be the site of the new college in June 1583 by Laurence Chaderton ,
646-554: The Master-elect, and his brother-in-law, Richard Culverwell, acting on behalf of Mildmay, to whom they conveyed the property on 23 November 1582. Mildmay's foundation made use of the existing buildings. The architect was Ralph Symons , and in 1588 the new building was opened with a dedication festival, which Mildmay attended. Mildmay, a Puritan , intended Emmanuel to be a centre for the training of Anglican preachers. According to Thomas Fuller , Mildmay, on coming to court after
684-635: The Paul Williams Scholarship, and the Gomes lecture and dinner held each February at Emmanuel in honour of Peter Gomes , erstwhile minister at Harvard's Memorial Church . Early Emmanuel graduates included several translators of the 1611 Authorised Version of the Bible, for example Laurence Chaderton and William Branthwaite . Fictional characters who have been said to have gone to Emmanuel include Jonathan Swift 's Lemuel Gulliver . It
722-687: The UK. The Garden also contains an Oriental plane tree that is reputed to have lived far longer than is typical for the species. It has been claimed that the college has the only privately owned subway (underpass) in the UK, connecting the main site to North Court, but in fact Oriel College, Oxford , has its own tunnel beneath Oriel Street linking the Island Site with the main college buildings. The Bodleian Library in Oxford also has its own tunnel beneath Broad Street . The Queen's Building encompasses
760-493: The Virginia colony, The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia , dedicating the first version to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland , in 1612. The manuscript included his eyewitness account of life in early Virginia, but borrowed heavily from the earlier work of Richard Willes, James Rosier , John Smith , and others. Strachey produced two more versions during the next six years, dedicating one to Francis Bacon and
798-498: The chapel of the original Dominican Friary was converted into the College's dining hall and the friars' dining hall became a chapel. In the late 17th century the College commissioned a new chapel, one of the three buildings in Cambridge designed by Christopher Wren (1677). After Wren's construction was opened the old chapel became the College library until it outgrew the space. The library moved to its present space in 1930, occupying
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#1732794382273836-464: The city's poets and playwrights, including Thomas Campion , John Donne , Ben Jonson , Hugh Holland , John Marston , George Chapman , and Matthew Roydon , many of them members of the "Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen" who met at the Mermaid Tavern . By 1605 Strachey was in precarious financial circumstances from which he spent the rest of his life trying to recover. In 1606 he used
874-780: The college sits was once a priory for Dominican monks, and the College Hall is built on the foundations of the monastery's nave. Emmanuel is one of the 16 "old colleges", which were founded before the 17th century. Emmanuel today is one of the larger Cambridge colleges; it has around 500 undergraduates, reading almost every subject taught within the University, and around 200 postgraduates. Among Emmanuel's notable alumni are Thomas Young , John Harvard , Graham Chapman and Sebastian Faulks . Three members of Emmanuel College have received Nobel Prizes : Ronald Norrish , George Porter (both Chemistry, 1967) and Frederick Hopkins (Medicine, 1929). In every year from 1998 until 2016, Emmanuel
912-507: The college was opened, was addressed by the Queen with the words: "Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation", to which Mildmay replied: "No, madam; far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof". Like all the older Cambridge colleges, Emmanuel originally took only male students. It first admitted female students in 1979. Under Mildmay's instructions
950-742: The daughter of Henry Cooke, Merchant Taylor of London, by Anne Goodere, the daughter of Henry Goodere and Jane Greene. Strachey's maternal grandfather, Henry Cooke (died 1551), held Lesnes Abbey in Kent ; he was succeeded by his son, Edmund Cooke (died 1619), while his younger son, Richard Cooke, has been identified as the author of Description de Tous les Provinces de France . By his father's first marriage Strachey had three brothers and three sisters. Strachey's mother died in 1587, and in August of that year Strachey's father married Elizabeth Brocket of Hertfordshire , by whom he had five daughters. Strachey
988-418: The dissolution of the company it was published in 1625 by Samuel Purchas as "A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir THOMAS GATES Knight" . It is generally thought to be one of the sources for Shakespeare 's The Tempest because of certain verbal, plot and thematic similarities. Strachey's writings are among the few first-hand descriptions of Virginia in the period. His glossary of words of
1026-665: The first 100 university graduates in New England , one third were graduates of Emmanuel. Harvard University , the first college in the United States, was organised on the model of Emmanuel as it was then run. Harvard is named for John Harvard (BA, 1632), an Emmanuel graduate. Emmanuel and Harvard maintain relations via student exchanges such as the Herchel Smith scholarships, the Harvard Scholarship,
1064-561: The other to Sir Allen Apsley . It too was critical of the Virginia Company management of the colony, and Strachey failed to find a patron to publish his work, which was finally first published in 1849 by the Hakluyt Society . Strachey died of unknown causes in August 1621. The parish register of St Giles' Church, Camberwell , in Southwark records his burial on 16 August 1621. He died in poverty, leaving this verse: Hark! Twas
1102-423: The robustness of the stone exterior walls with the spanning capabilities and mass of concrete for the floors. The limestone exterior is load bearing, and is the first building to use post-tensioned stone with internal cables. The roof is adorned with lead, and American white oak is extensively incorporated into the roof and panelling. The building was inaugurated in 1995. The Emmanuel College Students Union (ECSU)
1140-399: The summer of that year. Strachey was a passenger aboard the flagship Sea Venture with the leaders of the expedition when the ship was blown off course by a hurricane . Leaking, and with its foundering imminent, the ship was run aground off the coast of Bermuda , accidentally beginning England's colonisation of that Atlantic archipelago . The group was stranded on the island for almost
1178-519: The ten months they spent on the island. His account of the incident and of the Virginia colony is thought by most Shakespearean scholars to have been a source for Shakespeare's play The Tempest . William Strachey, born 4 April 1572 in Saffron Walden , Essex , was the grandson of William Strachey (died 1587), and the eldest son of William Strachey (died 1598) and Mary Cooke (died 1587),
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1216-401: The trump of death that blew My hour has come. False world adieu Thy pleasures have betrayed me so That I to death untimely go. In 1996, Strachey's signet ring was discovered in the ruins of Jamestown , identified by the family seal, an eagle . On 9 June 1595 Strachey married Frances Forster, 'the daughter of a prosperous Surrey family with political connections'. Frances Forster
1254-504: Was among the top five colleges in the Tompkins Table , which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results. Emmanuel topped the table five times (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010) and placed second six times (2001, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012). Its mean score for 1997–2018 inclusive places it as the second-highest-ranking college after Trinity . The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay , Chancellor of
1292-485: Was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America . He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture , which was caught in a hurricane while sailing to Virginia. The survivors eventually reached Virginia after building two small ships during
1330-430: Was brought up on an estate purchased by his grandfather in the 1560s. In 1588, at the age of sixteen, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge , but did not take a degree. In 1605 he was at Gray's Inn , but there is no evidence that he made the law his profession. In 1602 he inherited his father's estate following a legal dispute with Elizabeth Brocket, his stepmother. Strachey wrote a sonnet, Upon Sejanus , which
1368-484: Was proposed as that source, but this was superseded in the early 20th century by the proposal that "True Reportory" was Shakespeare's source because of perceived parallels in language, incident, theme, and imagery. While this theory reflects the current scholarly consensus, it is not universally accepted; some scholars think it a probable but not proven source and some flatly oppose the claim. William Strachey William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 16 August 1621)
1406-586: Was published in the 1605 edition of the 1603 play Sejanus His Fall by Ben Jonson . Strachey also kept a residence in London, where he regularly attended plays. He was a shareholder in the Children of the Revels , a troupe of boy actors who performed 'in a converted room in the former Blackfriars monastery', as evidenced by his deposition in a lawsuit in 1606. According to Sisson: In 1600 Richard Burbage leased to [Henry] Evans his Blackfriars property, and
1444-674: Was the daughter of William Forster and Elizabeth Draper (died 22 April 1605), widow of John Bowyer (died 10 October 1570) of Shepton Beauchamp , Somerset , and daughter of Robert Draper of Camberwell , Surrey , Page of the Jewels to King Henry VIII , by Elizabeth Fyfield. Strachey lived in London while Frances remained at her father's estate in Crowhurst, Surrey . They had two children, William Strachey (died 1635), born in March 1596/97, and Edmund Strachey, born in 1604. Frances died before 1615, and at some time before that date Strachey married
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