To this court belong twelve masters in chancery; an accountant general; six head clerks; sixty-two sworn clerks, who purchase their places, and twelve waiting clerks, whose places are given by the six clerks; two chief examiners, with their respective clerks; a chief and four inferior registers; the clerk of the crown; a prothonotary; clerks of the petty bag, subpæna, patent, affidavit, cursitors, and alienation office. _Masters in_ CHANCERY, are the twelve assistants of the Chancellor or Lord Keeper, the first of whom is Master of the rolls, which is a place of great dignity, and is in the gift of the King. These gentlemen sit at Westminster hall, with the Lord Chancellor, three at a time while the term lasts, and two at a time when the Lord Chancellor sits to hear causes in his own house, and to them he often refers the farther hearing of causes; he also refers to them matters of account, and other things of small moment; but never the merits of the cause. The salary of the Masters in chancery is 100_l._ to each of them paid quarterly out of the Exchequer, besides robe money. CHANCERY _lane_, Fleet street, so called from the court of Chancery there. CHANDLER’S _alley_, Orchard street, Westminster.* CHANDLER’S _rents_, Black Friars.† CHANDLER’S _street_, Duke street.† CHANDOS _street_, Bedford street, Covent Garden.† CHANEL _row_, New Palace yard. See CANON ROW. CHANGE, behind Exeter Change in the Strand. CHANGE _court_, in the Strand.☐ CHANTER _of St. Paul’s_. See the article PRECENTOR. CHAPEL ROYAL, a chapel in each of the King’s palaces, neatly ornamented on the inside. They are under the government of a Dean, who acknowledges no superior but his Majesty; for the Chapel Royal, or King’s Chapel, is not within the jurisdiction of any Bishop, but is a regal peculiar under the immediate government of the King. By the Dean are chosen the Sub-dean and all the other officers. These are the King’s Clerk of the closet, a Divine whose office is to attend at his Majesty’s right hand during divine service, to wait on his Majesty in his private oratory; and to resolve all his doubts relating to religious subjects. Forty-eight Chaplains in Ordinary, who are generally Doctors of Divinity distinguished for their learning and other accomplishments. Four of whom wait at court every month, to preach in the chapel on Sundays, and other Holidays before the King, and early in the morning on Sundays before the houshold; to read divine service to his Majesty every morning and evening during the rest of the week in his private oratory, and to say grace at the table in the absence of the Clerk of the closet.