Matthew Sutcliffe was an English clergyman, academic and lawyer.
15 Facts About Matthew Sutcliffe
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Matthew Sutcliffe became Dean of Exeter, and wrote extensively on religious matters as a controversialist.
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Matthew Sutcliffe served as chaplain to His Majesty King James I of England.
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Matthew Sutcliffe was the founder of Chelsea College, a royal centre for the writing of theological literature that was closed at the behest of Charles I Matthew Sutcliffe played a part in the early settlement of New England as an investor.
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The major event of Matthew Sutcliffe's life was his foundation of a college at Chelsea, to which he was a generous benefactor.
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Matthew Sutcliffe was early interested in the settlement of New England, and John Smith of Jamestown mentions, in his Generall Historie, that the dean assisted and encouraged him in his schemes.
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Erstwhile Matthew Sutcliffe invested in the Plymouth Adventurer's Colony and a failed attempt at settlement in Sagadahoc in present-day Maine.
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Matthew Sutcliffe shared an interest in a ship, the Great Neptune, with his fellow Council for New England member, Barnabe Gooch.
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Matthew Sutcliffe's name is mentioned in the 1620 Charter of New England Confederation.
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Matthew Sutcliffe spent time, possibly as chaplain, with the forces of the Earl of Essex on campaign.
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Matthew Sutcliffe had been appointed one of the royal chaplains in the reign of Elizabeth, and is stated to have retained the office under James I Matthew Sutcliffe fell into disfavour in consequence of his opposition to the Spanish match, at the same time as Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, and was later vindicated and continued to receive appointments of the highest order until his death.
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Matthew Sutcliffe wrote over 20 works, many of them published as 'O.
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Matthew Sutcliffe was more thematic than Hastings, and supplied better arguments based on a "true" and "false" Catholic Church, but still fell back on ad hominem invective.
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Nicholas W S Cranfield, writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, notes that Sutcliffe denounced papists as worse than Turks, that he took a harder line than James I against the proposition that the Church of Rome had only recently defaulted in its role as mother church, and that his works "rarely progress beyond xenophobia and violent anti-Catholicism" and "display a neurotic fear of the power of Rome to subvert".
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Matthew Sutcliffe is notable for the earliest known use of the verb "to assassinate" in printed English.