An historical and descriptive account of the Royal Hospital, and the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : to which is prefixed, an account of King James's College at Chelsea ... embellished with engravings, and interspersed with biographical anecdotes.

  • Faulkner, Thomas, 1777-1855.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical and descriptive account of the Royal Hospital, and the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : to which is prefixed, an account of King James's College at Chelsea ... embellished with engravings, and interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The building was begun upon a piece of ground called “ Thame-Shol, containing about six acres, at that time in the possession of Charles, Earl of Nottingham; who granted a lease of his term to Sutcliffe, at the yearly rent of seven pounds, ten shillings. The edifice was to have consisted of two quadrangles of different dimensions, with a piazza along the four sides of the smaller court. Of this scarce an eighth part was erected, as only one side of the first quadrangle was ever com- pleted, and this range of building, according to Fuller, cost above three thousand pounds. A print of the original design for this college is prefixed to a small pamphlet, called, “ I’he Glory of Chelsea College new Revived,^' published in London in the year l6'62, and written by John Darley, B. D. and Rector of Northill, in the county of Cornwall. This work was dedicated to King Charles the Second; and the author, after giving an history of the original foundation of the college, and the cause of its failure, en- deavours to persuade his majesty to grant it a fixed revenue. But this exhortation met with little or no attentionit was not a plan much suited to Charles’s mind or pursuits; and all the B 3 eloquence