CHETTLE, HENRY (1565-1607?).--Dramatist. Very little is known of him. He ed. R. Greene's _Groat's-worth of Wit_ (1592), is believed to have written 13 and collaborated in 35 plays. He also wrote two satires, _Kind Harts Dreame_ (1593), and _Pierre Plainnes Prentship_ (1595). He was imprisoned for debt 1599. Among his own plays, which have considerable merit, is _Hoffmann_, which has been reprinted, and he had a hand in _Patient Grissill_ (1603) (which may have influenced Shakespeare in the _Merry Wives of Windsor_), _The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green_, and _Jane Shore_. CHILD, FRANCIS J. (1825-1896).--English scholar, _b._ at Boston, Mass., was a prof. at Harvard, one of the foremost students of early English, and especially of ancient ballads in America. He ed. the American ed. of English Poets in 130 vols., and English and Scottish Ballads. He was also a profound student of Chaucer, and _pub._ _Observations on the Language of Chaucer_, and _Observations on the Language of Gower's Confessio Amantis_. CHILD, MRS. LYDIA MARIA (FRANCIS) (1802-1880).--Was the author of many once popular tales, _Hobomok_, _The Rebels_, _Philothes_, etc. CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM (1602-1644).--Theologian and controversialist, _b._ and _ed._ at Oxf., was godson of Archbishop Laud. Falling into theological doubts he subsequently became a convert to Roman Catholicism, and studied at the Jesuit Coll. at Douay, 1630. In the following year he returned to Oxf., and after further consideration of the points at issue, he rejoined the Church of England, 1634. This exposed him to violent attacks on the part of the Romanists, in reply to which he _pub._ in 1637 his famous polemic, _The Religion of the Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation_, characterised by clear style and logical reasoning. For a time he refused ecclesiastical preferment, but ultimately his scruples were overcome, and he became Prebendary and Chancellor of Salisbury. C. is regarded as one of the ablest controversialists of the Anglican Church. CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815-1890).--Divine, historian, and biographer, was _b._ at Lisbon, and _ed._ at Oxf., where he became a friend of J.H. Newman (_q.v._). He took orders, and became Rector of Whatley, Somerset, and in 1871 Dean of St. Paul's. He was a leading member of the High Church party, but was held in reverence by many who did not sympathise with his ecclesiastical views. Among his writings are _The Beginning of the Middle Ages_ (1877), and a memoir on _The Oxford Movement_ (1891), _pub._ posthumously. He also wrote Lives of Anselm, Dante, Spenser, and Bacon.