Guilds -- England -- London; London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History
The three Professors of Divinity, Law, and Medicine to be
Governor or President of the College in turn.
2. The Professors to live in the College.
3. The Professors to be unmarried.
4. To have a common table, and not to entertain friends as guests at
more than three meals in one month.
5. The Year to consist of five terms:
(1) To begin on the Monday before Trinity Term and to continue
one month.
(2) From the first Monday in September and to continue a
fortnight.
(3) From the Monday before Michaelmas Term and to continue to
the end of that Term.
(4) From the Monday after Epiphany to continue two months or
sixty days.
(5) From the Monday seven night after Easter Day to the end of
Easter Term.
6. The Divinity Lecture to be read on Monday and Wednesday at 8 A.M.
in Latin and on Friday in English.
7. The Divinity Lecturer to deal especially with the controversies
which affect the Church of Rome.
8. The Law and Physick Lectures to be read, like the Divinity
Lecture, twice in Latin and once in English.
9. The other lectures in Astronomy, Geometry, Rhetoric, and Music to
be read alternately in Latin and English.
10. The Professors to wear their hoods and gowns.
11. A keeper of the House to be appointed by the Lord Mayor.
The college was intended to be a rival, in some sort, to Oxford and
Cambridge. It seems never to have succeeded in attracting students. Dr.
Johnson attributed its failure to the fact that the lectures were free,
and that what is given is not valued. The House was pulled down in 1768
and the Excise Office took its place. The lectures were then read in a
room at the Royal Exchange. In 1843 the present building was erected and
the college entered upon a new course. So far, however, it does not seem
to fulfil the intentions of the Founder as a great educational centre.
Isaac Barrow, Robert Hooke, and Christopher Wren have been Professors in
the college. The Royal Society held its meetings here for fifty years
(1660-1710).
ST. PETER-LE-POER
In Broad Street at present still stands St. Peter-le-Poer, nearly
opposite the Excise Office. It escaped the Great Fire, but was
rebuilt in 1791 from the designs of Jesse Gibson. In 1842-44 St.
Benet Finck was demolished, and its parish was united with this. The
earliest date of an incumbent is 1356.
So far as there is any record, since 1181 at least, the patronage of
the church has always been in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of
St. Paul’s.
Houseling people in 1548 were 160 or 200.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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