Charter-house, the, in London, ii. 253; its martyrs, iii. 320; v. 77 Château-Gaillard, i. 265, 266 Châtillon, Coligni, Cardinal of, iv. 207 Chatham, William Pitt, first earl of (_see_ Pitt), vii. 340, 341; withdraws from public life, viii. 3; from the ministry, 6; proposes reform of the House of Commons, 9; strives to avert war with America, 20, 26; recalled to office, 29; death, 30 Chaucer, Geoffrey, his early life, ii. 358, 359; early poems, 359-361; offices, person, temper, 362, 363; home at Westminster, 366; _Canterbury Tales_, 361, 363-366; Caxton's edition of, iii. 157 Chauntries, suppression of, iv. 34, 54 Cheke, Sir John, iv. 134 Cherbourg, Henry of Lancaster at, ii. 259, 260; held by England, 316; surrendered to Navarre, 368; to Charles VII., iii. 62 Cheshire, royalist rising in, vi. 150 Chester, march of the West Saxons on, i. 38, 56; conquered by Æthelfrith, 60, 61; by William, 169; raid of Llewelyn ap Gruffydd on, ii. 85; blockade of, vi. 38 Chester, Ranulf, earl of, i. 345, 347; ii. 5 Chesterfield, defeat of the Disinherited at, ii. 87 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of, vii. 170, 203, 226, 249 "Chevy Chase," iii. 182 Chichester, Stephen Berksted, Bishop of, ii. 71 Chichester, Adam Moleyns, Bishop of, murdered, iii. 63 Chichester, Sir Arthur, v. 287, 288 Child, Sir Josiah, vi. 169 Chili conquered by Spain, iv. 329 Chillingworth, William, vi. 134-137 Chinon, Henry II. dies at, i. 258; Charles VII. and Jeanne d'Arc at, iii. 48 Chippenham, northmen at, i. 106 Chippewa, battle of, viii. 204 Chivalry, influence of, ii. 94 Chotusitz, battle of, vii. 223 "Christian Brethren," iii. 262 Christianity brought to England, i. 57; progress in Kent, Essex, and East Anglia, 59; reaction against, 65; its struggle with heathenism, _ib._, 66, 70-73 Christina, sister of Eadgar the Ætheling, i. 199 _Chronica Angliæ_, ii. 177 _Chronicle, the English_, i. 3-6, 115, 173, 203, 221, 278 _Chronicle of Queen Jane_, iv. 3 _Chronicon Scotorum_, i. 8