C H A 
the Mayenne, and chief place of a canton, In the diltrffit 
of Chateaugontier: four milts louth-weft of Chateau- 
gontior. 
CKAM'BE, a town of Armenia : 120 miles fouth-eaft 
of Erivan, 
CHAMBER, f. [chambre, Fr. camera, Lat. fiambr. 
Weld).] An apartment in a houfe; generally uled for 
thole appropriated to lodging : 
Bid them come forth, and hear me ; 
Or at their chamber door I'll beat the drum, 
Till it cry. Sleep to death. Sbakefpeare. 
Any retired room; as,The dark caves of death, and chambers 
of the grave. Prior. —Any cavity or hollow.—Petit has, 
from an examination of the figure cf the eye, argued 
againft the poflibility of a film’s exittence in the polteriour 
chamber. S'barp. —A court of jullice, or of commerce.— 
In the imperial chamber this vulgar error is not admitted. 
Ayliffe. —The lower part of a gun where the charge is 
lodged.—A fpecies of great gun.—Names given them, as 
cannons, demi-cannons, chambers, arquebuie, mufket, &c. 
Camden. —The cavity where the powder is lodged in a 
mine. 
Pri'zy-Cn amber. Gentlemen of.the privy-chamber 
are lervants of the king, who are to wait and attend on 
him and the queen at court, in their diverfions, See. Their 
number is forty-eight, under the lord-chamberlain; twelve 
of whom are in quarterly waiting, and two of theie lie in 
the privy-chamber. In the abfence of the lord-chamber- 
lain, or vice-chamberlain, they execute the king's orders: 
at coronations, two of them peribnate the dukes of 
Aquitain and Normandy ; and fix of them, appointed by 
the lord-chamberlain, attend the foreign ambaiTadors to 
their audiences, and in public entries. The gentlemen 
of the privy-chamber were inliituted by Henry VII. 
CHAM BER of a Mcrtar, or cannon, is a cell or 
cavity at the bottom of the bore, to receive the charge 
of powder. It is not found by experience that Chambers 
have any lenfibie e field on the velocity of the fliot, unleis 
in the large# ordnance, as mortars or very large cannon. 
Neither is it found that the form of them is very material; 
a fmall cylinder is as good as any j though mathematical 
fipeculations. inay (hew a preference of one form over ano¬ 
ther. But in practice, the chief point to be oblerved, is 
to have the chamber of a fize jult to contain the charge 
of powder, and no more, that the ball may lie dole to 
the charge; and that its entrance may point exactly to 
the centre of the ball. 
To CHAM'BER, %>. n. To be wanton ; to intrigue.— 
Let us walk honeltly as in the day, not in rioting and 
clrunkennefs, not in chambering and wantonnefs. Romans. 
—To refide as in the chamber.—The bell blood chamber'd 
in his bofom. Sbakejpeare f 
CHAM'BERER, f. A man of intrigue : 
I have not thole foft parts of converfation 
That chamberers have. Sbakefpeare. 
CHAMBERET / , a town of France, in the department 
of the Correze: fifteen miles north of Tulle. 
CHAM'BERFELLOW, f. One that lies in the fame 
chamber.—It is my fortune to have a chamberfellonu , with 
whom I agree very well in many fentiments. Spectator. 
CHAM'BERI, or Chambeicy, a large and populous 
town, the capital of Savoy, fituated on two fmall brooks, 
with a c a file, leated on an eminence : it is furrounded 
with mountains, but not fortified ; fo has never withftood 
a-fiege.. It contains two parochial churches, and about 
3 5,000 inhabitants : twelve polls and a half ealt of Lyons. 
The inhabitants of this town threw themfelves into the 
' power of France, in September, 1792. It is now the 
capital of the department of Mont Blanc. Lat. 45. 34. N. 
Ion: 23. 36. E.Ferro. 
CHAM'BERLAIN, f a term or title varioufly tiled iri 
outlaws, ftatutes, and chronicles; as firft there is the Lord 
j 
C H A 79 
Great Chamberlain of England, to whofe office belongs 
the government of the palace at Weftininfter ; and upon, 
all fiolemn occafions the keys of Weftmi niter-hall, and 
of the court of requells, are delivered to him; he difpofes 
of the Avoi d of Hate to be carried before the king when 
he comes to the parliament, and goes on the right hand 
of the Avord next to the king’s perfon : he lias the care 
of providing all things in the houfe of lords in the time 
of parliament; to him belong livery and lodgings in the 
king’s court, &c. And the gentleman ulher of the black 
rod, yeoman ufher, he. are under his authority. The 
office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England is heredi¬ 
tary 1 and where a penon dies leifed in fee of this office, 
leaving two filters, the office belongs to both fillers, and 
they may execute it by deputy 5 but fuch deputy mull be 
approved of by the king, and mull not be of a degree 
inferior to a knight. 2 BPo. P. C. 146. 
The Lord Chamberlain of the Houlehold has the over- 
fight and government of all officers belonging to the 
king’s chamber, (except the bed-chamber, which is under 
the groom of the' Hole,) and alfo of the wardrobe} of 
artificers retained in the king’s fervice, meffengers’, come¬ 
dians, revels, mufic, he. The lerjeants at arms are like- 
wile under his infpe£lion ; and the king’s chaplains, phy*- 
ficians, apothecaries, furgeons, barbers, he. And he 
hath under him a vice-chamberlain, both being always 
privy counfellors. There were formerly chamberlains of 
the king’s courts. 7 Ed-zu. 6. c. 1. And there are cham¬ 
berlains of the Exchequer, who- keep a controlment of 
the pells, of receipts and exitus, and have in their cufto- 
dy the leagues and treaties with foreign princes, many 
ancient records, the two famous books of antiquity called 
Domefday, and the Black Book of the Exchequer; and 
the llandards of money, and weights, and meaiiires, are 
kept by them. There are alfo under-chamberlains of the 
exchequer, who make fearches for all records in the trea- 
fury j and are concerned in making out the tallies, &c. 
The office of chamberlain of the exchequer is mention¬ 
ed in the flat. 34 and 35 H. 8. c. 16. Befides theie, we. 
read of a chamberlain of North Wales. Sto we, p. 641. 
There is a chamberlain of Cheller, to whom it belongs 
to receive the rents and revenues of that city ; and, when 
there is no prince of Wales, and earl of Cheller, he hath 
the receiving and returning of all writs coming thither 
out of any of'the king’s courts. The Chamberlain of 
London, is an officer who is commonly the receiver of 
the city rents payable into the chamber ; and hath great 
authority in making and determining the rights of free¬ 
men ; as alfo concerning apprentices, orphans, he. 
CHAM-'BERLAIN,/. A fervant who has the care of 
the chambers : 
Think’ll thou 
That the bleak air, thy boilterous chamberlain, 
Wili put thy lliirt on warm ? Sbakefpeare, 
When Duncan is afleep, his two chamherlaitis 
We will with wine and w.affel lb convince. Sbakefpeare. 
He ferv’d at firft ASmilia’s chamberlain. Dyden. —A re¬ 
ceiver of rents and revenues ; aS, chamberlain of the ex¬ 
chequer, of Cheller, of the city of London. Chambers. 
CHAM'BE'RLAINSHIP, /. The office of a cham¬ 
berlain. 
CHAM'BERLAYNE (Edward), defeejided from an 
ancient family at Odington in Gloucefterthire, was bom- 
in 1616. He was a commoner of St. Edmund-hall in 
Oxford in 1634; and was afterwards appointed rhetoric 
reader. During the civil war in England, he made the 
tour of Europe, In 1658 he married the only daughter 
of Richard Clifford, efq-. by whom he had nine children. 
After the re'ftoration he was chofen F. R. S. and, in 1669* 
attended Charles earl of Carlille to Stockholm, with the 
order of the garter to the king of Sweden. In 1670 the 
degree of LL.D. was conferred on him at Cambridge,, 
and two years after he was incorporated in the larfte at, 
Oxford 
