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the mailers in chancery; till by Hat. 12 Geo. I. c. 32, a 
new officer was appointed, called accountant general, to 
receive the money lodged in court, and convey the fame 
to the bank,-to be there kept for the fuitors of the court. 
There is alfo a fergeant at arms, to whom perfons Hand¬ 
ing in contempt are brought up by his fubftitute as pri- 
foners. A warden of the Fleet, who receives fuch pri- 
loners as Hand committed by the court, See. Befides 
thele officers, there is a clerk of the crown in chancery ; 
clerk and comptroller of the hanaper; clerk for inrolling 
letters patent, &c. not employed in proceedings of equity, 
but concerned in making out commiffions, patents, par¬ 
dons, &c. under the great leal, and collefting the fees 
thereof. A clerk of the faculties, for difpenfations, 
licences, &c. clerk of the prefentations, for benefices of 
the crown in the chancellor’s gift; clerk of appeals, on 
appeals from the courts of the archbiffnop to the court of 
chancery; and divers other officers, who are conllituted 
by the chancellor’s commiffion. 
CHAN'CRE,/. [chancre , Fr.] An ulcer ufually arifing 
from venereal maladies. See Medicine. 
CKAN'CROUS, adj. Having the qualities of a chancre; 
ulcerous.—You may think I am too ftri£l in giving fo 
many internals in the cure of fo fmall an ulcer as a 
chancre, or rather a chancrous callus. JVifeman. 
CHAN'CHA, a town of Egypt : two leagues eaft of 
Cairo,at the entrance of a defert whichleadstoMountSinai. 
CHAN'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Berar : fixty-feven miles fouth of Nagpour, and 218 eaft 
of Aurungabad. Lat. 20. 2. N. Ion. 79. 54.. E. Greenwich. 
CHANDAIL', a circar or diftridl of Hindooftan, in 
the country of Alla-Habad, fouth-weft of the country 
of Benares. 
CHANDELEU'R ISLANDS, a clufter of iflands in 
the Gulf of Mexico, near the coaft of Weft Florida. 
Lat. 29. 30. to 29. 4.5. N. Ion. 88. 48. to 88. 58. W. Green¬ 
wich. 
CHANDELIE'R, f. [ chandelier , Fr.] A branch for 
candles. This elegant contrivance for light and orna¬ 
ment has of late years been confiderably improved ; par¬ 
ticularly by M. Lafount, who has introduced a new me¬ 
thod of conftru&ing chandeliers, girandoles, luftres, &c. 
fo that the upper and lower branches are made to appear 
all of one piece. This invention was fandlioned by let¬ 
ters patent, on the 13th of December, 1796. The me¬ 
thod he adopts is to unite the upper and lower branches 
in a plate concealed by an ornamented hoop. The upper 
branches are affixed in fockets which are attached to the 
infide of, the hoop; and the lower branches have turns 
in the upper end like the top of an S ; the turns pals 
through the plate, and their extremity is affixed into 
fockets on the upper fide of it. As the fockets on the 
hoop and on the plate are both in the fame vertical plane, 
the upper and lower branches of the chandelier, which 
are affixed into thofe fockets, will of courfe appear to 
the eye as of one entire piece, whereby the luminous and 
brilliant effect is very much increaled and improved. 
CHANDELIE'R, in - fortification, a kind of wooden 
parapet, confifting of upright timbers lupporting others 
laid acrofs the tops of them, fix feet high, and fortified 
with fafeines, &c. They are ufed to cover the workmen 
in approaches, galleries, and mines. And they differ 
from blinds only in this, that the former ferve to cover 
the men before, and the latter over head. 
CHANDERE'E, a town of Hindooftan, and capital 
of a circar or diftridf in the Malwa country, near the ri¬ 
ver Betwha. It once contained 14,000 houfes; and is 
now the refidence of a rajah : 148 miles fouth of Agra, 
and £92. north of Ougein. Lat. 24.48. N. Ion. 78. 43. E. 
Greenwich. 
CHANDERNAGO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
country of Bengal, fituated on the Ganges. It was taken 
by the Englifh, under the condudf of colonel Clive and 
admiral Watfon, after a moil bloody conflidf, in March, 
1757. It formerly contained 80,000 inhabitants; at this 
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time, not half that number: eighty-two miles fouth of 
Moorffiedabad, and thirteen north of Calcutta. 
CHANDIEU', a town of France, in the department 
of theRhone and Loire : one league north of Montbrifon. 
CHANDI'GA, a river of Siberia, which runs into the 
Adlan. Lat. 62. 10. N. Ion. 153.E. Ferro. 
CHANDIRO'BA, f. in botany. See Feuili.ea. 
CHAND'LER, f [ chandelier , Fr.] An artifan whofe 
trade is to make candles, or a perfon who fells them. 
CHAND'LER (Mary), diltinguiffied by her poetical 
genius, was the daughter of a diffenting minifter at Bath, 
and was born at Malmefbury in Wiltffiire, in 1687. She 
was bed a milliner; but from her childhood had a turn 
for verfification, and in her riper years applied herfelf to 
the ftudy of the poets. Her poems, for which Ihe was 
complimented by Mr. Pope, breathe the fpirit of piety 
and philofophy. She had the misfortune to be deformed, 
which determined her to live fingle ; though Ihe had pe¬ 
culiar fweetnefs of countenance, and was folicited to 
marry. She died in 1745, aged 58. 
CHAND'LER (Samuel), an eminent diftenting mini¬ 
fter, born at Hungerford in Berks, where his father was 
pallor of a congregation of proteftant diflenters. Being 
by his literary turn deftined to the miniftry, he was firlt 
placed at an academy at Bridgewater, and from thence 
removed to Gloucefter, under Mr. Samuel Jones. Among 
the pupils of Mr. Jones were Mr. Jofeph Butler, after¬ 
wards bilhop of Durham, and Mr. Thomas Seeker, af¬ 
terwards archbilhop of Canterbury. With thefe eminent 
perfons he contrafted a friendlhip that continued to the 
end of their lives, notwithftanding the different views 
by which their conduft was afterwards directed, and the 
different fituations in which they were placed Having 
finilhed his academical ftudies, Mr. Chandler began to 
preach about July 1714; and being foon dillinguiffied by 
his talents in the pulpit, he -was choften in 1716 minifter 
of the Prefbyterian congregation at Peckham near Lon¬ 
don. Here he entered into the matrimonial ftate, and be¬ 
gan to have an increafing family, when, by the fatal 
South-fea fcheme of 1720, he unfortunately loft the 
whole fortune wdiich he had received with his wife. His 
circumftances being thereby embarrafled, and his income 
inadequate to his expences, he engaged in the trade of 
a bookfeller, and kept a Ihop in the Poultry, London, 
for two or three years, Hill continuing to dilcharge 
the duties of the palloral office. He alfo officiated as 
joint preacher with the learned Dr. Lardner of a"win- 
ter w r eekly evening ledlure at the meeting-houfe in the 
Old Jewry, in which meeting he was eftablifhed affiftant 
preacher in 1725, and then as the pallor. Here he 
miniltered to the religious improvement of a very re- 
Ipe&able congregation for forty years with the great- 
ell applaufe; and with what diligence he improved 
the vacancies of time from his palloral duties, for im¬ 
proving liimfelf and benefiting the world, will appear 
from his many waitings on a variety of important fub- 
jefts. While he was thus laudably employed, not only 
the univerfities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen gave him, 
without any application, teftimonies of their efteem in 
diplomas, conferring on him the degree of D. D. but he 
alio received offers of preferment from fome of the go¬ 
vernors of the eftablillied church, which he declined. 
He had likewife the honour of being afterwards elected 
F. R. and A. SS. On the death of George II. in 1760, 
Dr. Chandler publilhed a fermon on that event, in which 
he compared that prince to king David. This gave rife 
to a pamphlet, intituled “ The Hiftory of the Man after 
God’s own Heart;” wherein the author ventured to ex¬ 
hibit king David as an example of perfidy, lull, and 
cruelty, fit only to be ranked with a Nero or a Caligula; 
and complained of the inlult that had been offered to the 
memory of the late Britilh monarch, by Dr. Chandler’s 
parallel between him and the king of Ifirael. This attack 
occafioned Dr. Chandler to publilh “A Review of the 
Hiftory of the Man after God’s own Heart j in which the 
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