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March 16, fet out for Briftol. Here he learnt that the 
fliip bound from Cork to England, wherein were a great 
part of his effedts, was loft near Minehead } and therein, 
among other things, perifhed his choice collection of 
books. After inch a feries of misfortunes, he withdrew 
to his native foil, where he fpent the remainder of his life 
in retirement and ftudy; and died at Derby, upon 
Whitfunday, 164.9. De publifhed, the year before his 
death, Methodus Conclonandi, that is, the Method of 
Preaching; which for its ufefulnefs was tranflated into 
Englifli. His Ufe of Holy Scripture was printed after¬ 
wards in 1653. He left behind him alio his own life, 
written by himfelf in Latin, which has been twice print¬ 
ed; lirft from a MS. in the hands of fir Philip Sydenham, 
bai t, by Hearne, and a lecond time by Peck, from a MS. 
ftill prefet vedin Trinity hall, Cambridge. 
CHAP'PEL HILL, a town of United America, in 
Orange county, North-Carolina, fituated on Newhope 
creek, which empties into Cape Fear River. This is the 
fpot chofen for the feat of the Univerfity of North-Ca¬ 
rolina ; and ftudents were admitted, and education com¬ 
menced, in January 1796. The beautiful and elevated 
fcite of this town commands a pleafing and exteniive 
view of the furrounding country : twelve miles fouth by 
eaft of HilKborough, and 472 fouth-weft of Philadelphia. 
Lat. 35.40. N. Ion. 79. 6. W. 
CHAP'PES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
Bar-fur-Seine : ten miles fouth-ealt of Troyes. 
CHAPPOY', a town of France, in the department of 
Jura: two leagues and a half fouth-fouth-eaft of Saiins. 
CHAPRARAL', a town of South America, in the coun¬ 
try of Chili, and jurifdiftion of Coquimbo. 
CHAPS, f. The mouth of a beaft of prey : 
Their whelps at home expeCt the promis'd food, 
And long to temper their dry chaps in blood. Drjdcn. 
It is ufed in contempt for the mouth of a man. 
CHAPT, or Chapped, part. Like a table upon which 
you may run your finger without rubs, and your nail 
cannot find ajoint; not horrid, rough, wrinkled, gaping, 
or ebapt. Ben. Jonfon. 
Cooling ointment made, 
Which on their fun-burnt cheeks and their cha.pt fkins 
they laid. Drjdcn. 
CHAP'TER, f. [chapitre, Fr.] Adivilion of a book.— 
The lirft book we divide into three fedtions; whereof the 
fifft is thefe three chapters. Burnet. —From hence comes 
the proverbial phrafe, to the end of the chapter ; through¬ 
out: to the end.—Money does all things; for it gives 
and it takes away, it makes honeft men and knaves fools 
and plulolophers; and lo forward, mutatis mutandis , to 
the end of the chapter. L’Ef range. 
CHAP'TER, f [capitulwn, Lat.] A congregation of 
clergymen under the dean in a cathedral church : congre- 
gatio clericorum in ecclcjia cathedrali , conventuali, regitlari, 
vel collegiata. T his collegiate company is metaphorical¬ 
ly termed capitulum, fignifying a little head, it being a 
kind or head, not only to govern the diocefe in the va¬ 
cation of the bilhopric, but alfo in many things to advife 
and affift the bifliop when the fee is full, for which, with 
the,dean, they form a council. Co. Lit. 103. The chapter 
confifts of prebendar ies or canons, which are fome of the 
chief men of the church, and therefore are called capita 
ecclrfte : they are a fpiritual corporation aggregate, which 
they cannotfurrender without leaveofthe bifnop, becaufe 
he hath an intereft in them ; they, with the dean, have 
power to confirm the bifhop’s grants; during the vacan¬ 
cy of an archbifhopric, they are guardians of the fpiri- 
tiwlties, and as fuch have authority, by the flat. 25 Hen. 
. ZJ > t0 grant difpenfations ; likewife as a corpora¬ 
tion they have power to make leafes, &c. When the dean 
and chapter confirm grants of the bifliop, the dean joins 
wnh the chapter, and there mull be the confent of the 
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major part; which confent is to be exprefled by their affix¬ 
ing their feal to the deed, in one place, and at one time, 
either in the chapter-houfe, or fome other place; and 
this confent is the will of many joined together. Dyer 233. 
They had alfo a check on the bifliop at common law ; for 
till ltat. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 28, his grant or leafe would 
not have bound his fuccellors, unlefs confirmed by the 
dean and chapter. 1 Infl. 103. 
A chapter is not capable to take by purchafe or gift, 
without the dean, who is the head of the body : but there 
may be a chapter without a dean, as the chapter of the 
collegiate church of Southwell; and grants by or to them 
are as effectual as other grants by dean and chapter. Yet 
where there are chapters without deans, they are not pro¬ 
perly chapters : and the chapter in a collegiate church, 
where there is no epifcopal fee, as at Weltminfter and 
Windfor, is more properly called a college. Chapters 
are faid to have had their beginning before deans; and 
formerly the bifhop had the rule and ordering of things 
without a dean and chapter, which were conftituted af¬ 
terwards ; and all the minifters within his diocefe were as 
his chapter, to affift him in fpiritual matters, a Rol. Rep. 
454. 3 Co. 75. The bifliop hath a power of vifiting the 
dean and chapter: but the dean and chapter have nothing 
to do with what the bifliop tranfafts as ordinary. 3 Rep. 
75. Though the bifhop and chapter are but one body, 
yet their poffeffions are for the 1110ft part divided ; as the 
bifliop hath his part in right of his bilhopric; the dean 
hath a part in right of his deanery ; and each prebendary 
hath a certain part in right of his prebend ; and each too 
is incorporated by himlelf. Deans and chapters have 
alfo fome of them ecclefiaftical jurifdiCtion in feveral pa- 
rifhes, (befides that authority they have within their own 
body,) executed by their officials; alfo temporaljurif¬ 
diCtion in feveral manors belonging to them, in the fame- 
manner as bifhops, where their ltewards keep courts, &c. 
2 Rol. Abr. 229. It has been obfervrd, that though the 
chapter have diflinCt parcels of the bifhop’s eftate affigned 
for their maintenance, the,bifliop hath little more than a 
power over them in his vifitations, and is fcarce allowed 
to nominate half of tliofe to their prebends, who were 
originally of his family: but of common right it is faid 
he is their patron. They are now fame times appointed 
by the king, fometimes by the bifhop, and fometiines 
eleCted by each other. 1 Comm. 383. 
CHAP'TER-HOUSE,/! The place in which affemblies 
of the clergy are held.—Though the canonical conftitu- 
tion does ItriCtly require it to be made in the cathedral, 
yet it matters not where it be made, either in the choir 
or chapter-houfe. Ayliffe. 
CHAP'TREL, f. The capitals of piilars, or pilafters, 
which fupport arches, commonly called impofts.—Let the 
keyftone break without the arch, fo much as you projeCt 
over the jaunts with the chaptrels. Moxon. 
CHAQUILOiV, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Segeftan, in ruins: ninety miles north-eaft of Zareng, 
CHAR, /. A fifli found only in Winander-meer, in 
Lancafliire ; it is a fpecies of falmon. See Salmo. 
To CHAR, v. a. To burn wood to a black cinder.— 
Spraywood, in charring, parts into various cracks. JVcod- 
vua.rd. 
CHAR,yi [cyppe, work, Sax. Lye. It is derived by 
Skinner, either from charge, Fr. bufinefs; or cape, Sax. 
care ; or keeren, Dutch, to lweep. ] Work done by the day; 
a fingle job or talk : 
She, harveft done, to char- work did afpire; 
Meat, drink, and tw'opence, were her daily hire. Dryden. 
Do CHAR, v. n. To work at other houfes by the day, 
without being a hired fervant. 
CHAR-WOMAN, f. A woman hired occafionally for 
odd works, or fingle days.—Get three or four char-women 
to attend you conftantly in the kitchen, whom you pay 
cnly with the broken meat, a few coals, and all the cin¬ 
ders, Swift. 
CHAR,a town of Arabia: i4omilesnorth-w-eftofMecca, 
Dd CHAR, 
