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a Rol. Abr. 5+0. Thefe chapels are lerved by curates, 
provided at the charge of the reftor, &c. and the curates 
are therefore removeable at the pleafure of the reft or or 
vicar: but chapels of eafe may be parochial, and have a 
right to facraments and burials, and to a diitinft minif- 
ter, by cuftom ; (though i'ubjcft in fome refpefts to the 
mother-church :) and parochial chapels differ only in 
name from parifh churches, but they are (mail, and the 
inhabitants within the diftrift are few. In fome places 
chapels of eafe are endowed with lands or tithes, and in 
other places by voluntary contributions ; and in fome 
few diftrifts there are chapels which baptize and adrni- 
nifter the lacraments, and have chapel-wardens; but thefe 
chapels are not exempted from the vifitation of the ordi¬ 
nary, nor the parifhioners who refort thither from con¬ 
tributing to the repairs of the mother-church ; efpecially 
if they bury there; for the chapel generally belongs to, 
and is, as it were, a part of the mother-church ; and the 
parifhioners are obliged to go to the mother-church, but 
not to the chapel. 2 Rol. Abr. 289. And hence it is laid, 
that the offerings made to any chapel are to be rendered 
to the mother-church ; unlefs there be a cuftom that the 
chaplain fliall have them. 
Public chapels, annexed to parilh churches, lha?l be 
repaired by the parilhioners, as the church is, if any 
other perfons be not bound to do it. 2 Injl. 4.89. Befides 
the afore-mentioned chapels, there are free chapels, per¬ 
petually maintained and provided with a minilter, with¬ 
out charge to the reftor or parifh, or that are free and 
exempt from all ordinary jurifdiftion ; and thefe are 
where feline lands or rents are charitably bellowed on 
them. Stat. 37 Hen. 8. c. 4. 1 Ed. 6. c. 14. There are 
alfo private chapels, built by noblemen and others, for 
private worfhip, in or near their own houfes, maintained 
at the charge of thofe perlons to whom they belong, and 
provided with chaplains and flipends by them; which 
may be erefted without leave of the bilhop, and need not 
be confecrateu, though they anciently were fo, nor are 
they fubjeft to the jurifdiftion of the ordinary. There 
are likewife chapels in the univerfities belonging to par¬ 
ticular colleges, which, though they are conl'ecrated, 
and facraments are adminiftered there, yet they are not 
liable to the vifitation of the bifhop, but of the founder. 
2 Injl. 363. 
Knights of the CHA'PEL, called a!fo poor knights of 
Wind for, were inftituted by Henry VIII. Their number 
was firft thirteen, but has been fince augmented to twen¬ 
ty-fix. They afiift in the funeral fervices of the kings of 
England, are fubjeft to the office of the canons of Wind- 
for, and live on penfions afligned them by the order of 
the garter. They bear a blue or red cloak, with the 
arms of St. George on the left fhoulder. 
CHATE^-IN-THE-FRITH, a fmatl market-town in 
Derbyfhire, diftant from London 163 miles, twenty from 
Mancheftcr, and eleven and a half from Macclesfield. 
It is fituated on the utmoft confines of the peak, near 
the borders of Chelhire. A fmail cotton-manufafture is 
carried on here. The church has a fquare tower with 
fix bells. Here is a free-fehool for fix boys. A new ca¬ 
nal is cut from Manchefter to this place. The market 
is on Thurfdays; and here are no lei's than twelve fairs, 
viz. onfthurfday before Old Candlemas, February 13, 
March 29, Thurfday before Ealter, April 30, and Holy 
Thusfday, for cattle ; July 7, for wool; Thurfday before 
St. Bartholomew’s-day, Auguft 24, and September 4, for 
cheele and fheep; Thurfday after September 29, and 
Thurfday before November 11. 
CHAPELAIN' (jo'hn), an eminent French poet, born 
at Paris in 1595, an d often mentioned in the works of 
Balzac, Menage, and other learned authors. He wrote 
feveral works, and at length diltinguilhed himfelf by an 
heroic poem called La Pucelle, ou France Delivree, which 
employed him leveial years; and which, railing the ex- 
peSfation of the public, was as much decried by fome as 
extolled by others. He was one of the king’s counfel- 
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lors ; and died in 1674, very rich, but very covetous and 
fordid. He had 50,000 crowns in ready cadi by him; 
and his fupreme delight was to have-his ftreng box open¬ 
ed, and the bags taken out, that he might contemplate his 
treafure. In this manner were his bags about him when 
he died ; which gave occafion to a certain academician 
to fay, “ there is our friend Chapelain juft dead, like a 
miiler among his bags.” 
CHATELESS, adj. Wanting a chape.-—An old rufty 
fword, with a broken hilt, and chap clefs, with two broken 
points. Shakefpeare. 
CHAPELIE'R (Ifaac Je), one of the leaders of the 
French revolution, vvas born at Rennes in Brittany, 
where his father was counfellor of the Hates of Brittany ; 
his family was refpeftable; and his reputation for pro¬ 
bity procured him letters of nobility, which were granted 
by Louis XV. in conference of the demand of the llates> 
The fon, however, of a favourite of the court, and of the 
privileged orders, became one of the greateft enemies to 
the throne, and to nobility. Young Chapelier was brought 
up in a college at Rennes, and diftinguiflied himfelf early 
by his extraordinary attainments. He became an advo¬ 
cate, and maintained the reputation of an accompliftied 
orator. His manner abounded in dignity, elegance, and 
grace ; and his ftyle united the force of Demofthenes with 
the perfuafive eloquence of Cicero: it was equally re¬ 
markable for the keennefs of its point and fatire. In 
1789, he was elefted deputy to the conftituent afiembly., 
and difplayed in it all his powers of oratory from its firlt 
commencement. He was foon ranked among its molt 
diftinguiflied leaders, and was chofen prefident: his pre- 
fidency was diftinguiflied by the remarkable circumftance, 
that he was the firlt in that office who affumed a pre-emi¬ 
nence over the king. In the beginning of the revolution, 
many of the country-feats of the nobility were reduced 
to allies; and Le Chapelier was ftrongly fufpefted of hay¬ 
ing been inftrumental in the deftruftion of them. It ap¬ 
peared that he employed a man of the name of Vales de 
Loyac, who was afterwards imprifoned, and would have 
been punilhed with death, if he had not been protefted 
by the influence of Le Chapelier. This faft was fo no¬ 
torious, that the vifeount de Mirabeau, brother to the 
great Mirabeau, having a beautiful country-houfe in 
Brittany, and alarmed for its fate, threatened Le Cha¬ 
pelier openly in the affembly, and told him, that, if his 
feat were deftroyed, he would make him anlwerable for 
the lofs. Le Chapelier experienced the fate of a large 
portion of the founders of the republic. An energetic 
republican obferves, that “ it is a lamentable faft, that 
the liiftorian of the revolution fcarcely mentions any 
perfon of importance, whofe bufferings he has not fubfe- 
quently to relate.” It was peculiar in the fate of Le 
Chapelier; that he, who, during the conftituent affem¬ 
bly, had conftantly fat on the left fide, and never buffer¬ 
ed an opportunity to efcape him of humbling the nobles 
and privileged orders, ftiould be afterwards accufed of 
having conlpired againll the republic with the very men 
whofe country-feats he was acculed of having burnt, 
and to whom he had alw’ays been a declared enemy. 
Under the domination of Robefpierre, he was accufed of 
a confpiracy with Depremenil, Malflierbes de Lamoi- 
gnon, lady Lepeltier Rofambo daughter to Malflierbes,, 
ladies De Chateau Brilliant, De Rochochoir, the cele¬ 
brated Thouret, and many others, all of them of the firft 
diltinftion. They were conducted to the uniparing guil¬ 
lotine, on the 22d of April, 1794, three months before 
the fill of the deteftabie tyrant who fpilled fuch tor¬ 
rents of the beft blood of his fellow-citizens. Le Cha¬ 
pelier was of a middle llature, his face was oval and flat, 
and his complexion yellow. Being fliort-fighted, he al¬ 
ways wore fptftacles. 
CHAPEL'LANY,yi A chapellany Is faid to be that 
which does not fubfilt of itfelf, but is buiit and founded 
within fome other church, and is dependent thereon. 
Ay liffe, 
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