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dangers of the fea excepted, and after, in the voyage, and 
within the time of the return, the fhip was taken upon 
the tea by pirates, to that the matter could not return at 
the time mentioned in the agreement, it was adjudged 
that this impediment was within the exception of the 
charter-party, which extends as well to any danger upon 
the tea by pirates and men of war, as dangers of the fea 
by jQripwreck, temped, &c. Stile 132. 2 Rnl. Abr. 24.8. 
A fliip is freighted at fo much per month that the fhall 
be out, covenanted to be paid after her arrival at the port 
of London ; the fliip is call away coming up from the 
Downs, but the lading is all prelerved, the freight fhall 
in this cafe be paid ; for the money becomes clue month¬ 
ly by the contrail, and the place mentioned is only to 
afcertain where the money is to be paid, and the fliip is 
intitled to wages, like a mariner that ierves by the month, 
who, if he dies in the voyage, his executors are to be 
anfwered prorata. Molloy de Jur. Maritim. 260. If a part- 
owner of a fliip refufe to join with the other owners in 
fetting out of the (hip, he {hall not be entitled to his fhare 
of the freight; but, by the courfe of the admiralty, the 
other owners ought to give lecurity, if the fliip perifli in 
the voyage, to make good to the owner Handing out, his 
fhare of ihe fliip, fir L. Jenkins, in a cafe of this nature, 
certified that by the law marine and courfe of the admi¬ 
ralty, the plaintiff was to have no (hare of the freight; 
and that it was fo in all places, for otherwife there would 
be no navigation. 
CHAR'TERED, adj. Invefted with privileges by char¬ 
ter ; privileged: 
When he fpeaks 
The air, a charter'd libertine, is Hill. Skakefpeare. 
CHAR'TIS REDDEN'DIS,/. An ancient writ which 
lay again!! one that had charters of feoffment entrufled 
to his keeping, and refufed to deliver them. Reg. Orig. 
I 59- 
CHARTO'PHYLAX,/! An officer of the Greek church 
at Conflantinople, who attends at the rails when the fa- 
crament is adminiflered, and gives notice to the piiefls 
to come to the holy table. He reprefents the patriarch 
upon the bench, tries all ecclefiaflical caufes, keeps all 
the marriage regifters, aflifls at the eonfecration of bi- 
fhops, and prefents the bifliop eleft at the folemnity, and 
likewife all other fubordinate clergy. This office refem- 
bles that of the bibliothecarius at Rome. 
CHAR'TRAIN, before the revolution, a finall coun¬ 
try of France, in the environs of Chartres, which is the 
capital. 
CHAR'TRE sur le LOIR (La), a town of France, 
in the department of the Sarte,. and chief place of a can¬ 
ton in the diilridt of Chateau-du-Loir : leven leagues and 
a half fouth-fouth-efiil of Le Mans, and two eall-north- 
eaft of Chateau-du-Loir. 
CHAR'TRES ,a city of France, and principal place 
of a diftridl, in the department of the Eure and Loire, 
one of the moft ancient towns of the country ; before the 
revolution, the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of Paris; the 
cathedral is efleemed one of the molt beautiful churches 
in the kingdom. It is fituated on the Eure, over which 
■is a bridge, the work of the celebrated Vauban, and con¬ 
tains about 10,000 inhabitants. The principal trade is 
corn : eighteen polls and a half north-north-ealt of 
Tours, and eleven fouth-weft of Paris. Lat. 48. 27. N. 
Ion. 19. 9. E. Ferro. 
CHARTREIFSE, or Chartreuse grand, f A 
celebrated monaltery, the capital of all the convents 
of the Carthufian monks, fituated on a fteep rock in the 
middle of a large foreft of fir-trees, about leven miles 
north-eaft of Grenoble, in the former province of Dau- 
phiny in France. See Carthusians. From- this mo¬ 
ther-convent all the others of the fame order tock their 
names; among which was the Chartreule of London, 
corruptly called the Charterhoufe, now converted into 
an hofpital, and endowed with a revenue of 6001. per 
C H A 
annum. Here are maintained eighty decayed gentlemen, 
not under fifty years of age; alfo forty boys are edu¬ 
cated and fitted either for the univerfity, or for trades. 
Thofe fent to the univerfity have an exhibition of twenty 
pounds a. year for eight years; and have an immediate 
title to nine church livings in the gift of the governors 
of the hofpital, who are fixteen in number, and take their 
turn in the nomination of penlioners and fcholars. 
CHARM ULARY, f. [chartularius, Lat.] An ancient 
officer in the Latin church, who had the care of charters 
and papers relating to public affairs. The chartulary 
prefided m ecclefiattical judgments in lieu of the pope. 
In the Greek church the chatulary was called charto- 
pbylax. 
CHAR'WELL, a river of England, which runs into 
the Thames at Oxford. 
CIIA'RY, adj. Careful; cautious; wary; frugal.— 
Over his kindred he held a wary and chary care, which 
bountifully was expreffed, when occafion fo required. 
Care-tv. 
CHARYB'DIS, f. [a word of Phoenician or Hebrew 
extract, as the learned Bocliart has proved, of chor, a 
hole, and abaddon, perdition, and in compound, cbor-ob- 
dan , the hole of perdition.] A dangerous whirlpool on 
the coall of Sicily, oppofite another whirlpool called 
Scylla on the coall of Italy. It was very dangerous to 
tailors, and it proved fatal to part of the fleet of Ulyffes. 
The words, lncidit in Scyllam qui <vult vitare Charybdim , 
became a proverb, to Ihew that in our eagernefs to avoid 
an evil, we fall into a greater. This whirlpool, which 
was in the gulph of Meffina, is faid to have been entirely 
removed by an earthquake in 1783. The name of Cha- 
rybdis was bellowed on miflreffes who repay affedlion 
and tendernels with ingratitude. It is fuppofed that 
Charybdis was an avaricious woman, who Hole the oxen 
of Hercules, for which theft Ihe was ftruck with thunder 
by Jupiter, and changed into a whirlpool. 
To CHASE, v. a. \chaffer, Fr.J To hunt.—It fliall be 
as the chafed roe. Ifaiah .—To purlue as an enemy. And 
Abimelech chafed him, .and he fled before him. Judges .— 
To drive away.—He that chafeth away his mother, is a 
fon that caufeth flrame. Pro-verbs. —To follow as a thing 
delirable; to drive: 
As when the following morn had chas'd away 
The flying liars, and light reflor’d the day. Dryden. 
To CHASE Metals. See To Enchase. 
CHASE, f. Hunting; as, the pleafures of the chafe. 
Purfuit of any thing as game.— There is no chafe more 
pleafant, methinks, than to drive a thought, by good 
conduct, from one end of the world to another, and never 
to lofe fight of it till it fall into eternity. Burnet. —-Fit- 
nefs to'be hunted ; appropriation to chafe or fport: 
A maid I am, and of thy virgin train ; 
Oh 1 let me Itill that lpotlefs name retain, 
Frequent the forefts, thy challe will obey. 
And only make the bealts of chafe my prey. Dryden. 
Purfuit of an enemy or of fome thing noxious.—He {allied 
out upon them with certain troops of horfemen, with 
luch violence, that he overthrew them, and, having them 
in chafe, did fpeedy execution. Knclles. —Purfuit of fome- 
thing as defirable: 
Yet this mad chafe of fame, by few purfu’d. 
Has drawn deftruftion on the multitude. Dryden. 
The game hunted : 
Honour’s the noblelt chafe-, purfue that game, 
And recompenfe the lots of love with fame. Granville. 
The chafe of a gun, is the whole bore or length of a 
piece, taken withinlide. 
CHASE, fchaffe, Fr.J In its legal fignification, is a 
great quantity of woody ground lying open, and privi¬ 
leged, for wild bealls and wild fowl: and the bealts of 
chafe 
