The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . st it is pleasant,at the end of this chequered tale of a great failure,to leave our gentle and lovable Evelyn closeted inhis study, before supper, with Sir Stephen Fox,hard at work arranging the governour, chaplain,steward, housekeeper, chirurgeon, cook, butler,gardener, porter, and other officers [for the greatHospital to be], with their several salaries and en-tertainments, I would needes, he adds, character-istically, have a Library, and mentiond severalbookes, since some soldiers might possibly bestud
The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . st it is pleasant,at the end of this chequered tale of a great failure,to leave our gentle and lovable Evelyn closeted inhis study, before supper, with Sir Stephen Fox,hard at work arranging the governour, chaplain,steward, housekeeper, chirurgeon, cook, butler,gardener, porter, and other officers [for the greatHospital to be], with their several salaries and en-tertainments, I would needes, he adds, character-istically, have a Library, and mentiond severalbookes, since some soldiers might possibly bestudious when they were at leisure to is a sentence on which one could commentvery emphatically to-day! And it is pleasant alsoto reflect, as we survey the sorry story of theCollege and its successive occupants, how step bystep, through its use as a prison and as a hospitalfor sick and wounded warriors, and through JohnEvelyns association both with the College and theRoyal Society, King James theological failureeventually paved the way to King Charles bene-ficent success. f. en JWXu . O <u THE ETRURIANS IN CHELSEA. It is strange that the recorded facts in regard toChelseas early association with pottery should beso few and so disputable. A succession of namesprominent in the history of ceramics—the Elers,Duesbury, Sprimont, Thomas, Wedgwood, Ruel,Hempel, and De Morgan—are all borne upon ourChelsea Roll of Honour ; but the records of theearlier potters here are extremely slight and un-certain. It has been stated that there was a manufactoryof glass and perhaps also of porcelain in Chelseabefore the close of the seventeenth century, carriedon by Venetian workmen, under the patronageof the Duke of Buckingham ; and that the Elersfamily, who came to England on George acces-sion and certainly settled in Chelsea some yearslater, were associated with this work as early as1720; and it is also recorded that a number ofBurslem potters from Hot Lane came to Chelseain
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