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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

Church, English, its foundation, i. 57-59; organized by Theodore, 81-84; its parish system, 84; share in resistance to the Danes, 145; William the Conqueror's dealings with, 187, 188; the Red King's, 193; decline of its political influence, 222; revival during the anarchy, 224; Henry II.'s dealings with, 235-237, 253; relation of universities to, 292; condition in early thirteenth century, ii. 7, 8; its political teaching, 23; beginnings of resistance to the Papacy, 27; Edward I.'s policy towards, 118, 119; papal demands on its revenues, etc., 222, 223; under Edward III., relations with the Papacy, 273-275; its wealth, 294; despoiled by Pope and King, 296; threatened in Parliament, 301; proposals to confiscate its property, iii. 15, 21; condition during Wars of the Roses, 96, 97; reform of, demanded by Parliament, 290; Henry VIII.'s dealings with, 296, 297, 301, 302; Thomas Cromwell's dealings with, 295, 310-312; spoliation of, under Henry VIII., iv. 13; condition at Cromwell's fall, 14, 15; spoliation under Edward VI., 66; demands for restoration of its property, 102, 103; Hooker's influence on, v. 113; Puritan demands for its reform, 118; the Long Parliament's dealings with, 352-355; Oliver Cromwell's dealings with, vi. 111; settlement after the Restoration, 199, 208-210; James II.'s dealings with, vii. 18, 19, 24; effects of the Revolution on, 63-66; condition under the Georges, 169-172; revival in, 205-211; viii. 46; Irish, its missionary zeal, i. 68, 69; later character, i. 80; relations with the English Church, 250; English and Irish divisions, iii. 338, 339; accepts the King's Supremacy, 339, 340; rejects religious change, 341; condition under Elizabeth, iv. 314, 315; Roman, its revival under Paul IV., iv. 99; position at the accession of Pius V., 249; of Scotland, Presbyterian. See Kirk

Churchill, Arabella, vii. 107, 108

Churchill, John, vii. 107-109; his victory at Sedgemoor, 11, 109; deserts James II., 42. See Marlborough.

Cinque Ports support party of Montfort, ii. 70, 85, 86; their commerce, iv. 279; Flemish exiles in, 305, 323; mariners of, their victory off Dover, ii. 3; their fights with the French, 141, 142; iii. 7

Cissa, king of the South Saxons, i. 34

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