C H A U N C Y, or CHAUNCEY, CHARLES (1592-1672). An American clergyman and edu •ator. the second president of Harvard College. Ile was born at Yardley, England : graduated. in 1613, at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was for sonic time a and for several years was professor of Creek there. He was vicar of Ware front 1627 to 1633. and of Marston Saint Lawrence, Northamptonshire. from 1633 to 1637. and in both pastorates came into fre quent conflict with the ecclesiastical authorities. Ile was first called to account for his opposition to the /took of SporIN. and for iv is in substituting eatechetieal exercises for the prohibited afternoon sermon. and in 1629 lie was brought before the Court of High Commission for having said that "idolatry was admitted into the Church." and that "there is much athe ism, popery..Arminianism, and heresy crept into the Chureh.” In 1635 he MI, again Immig.lit be fore the court. this time for obp•eting to a rail around the communion table, and to the act of kneeling at the communion service. and after
trial publicly recanted. in 1638 he emigrated to America, and for three years preaehed in Plymouth; but in 1611 he became the pastor at Seituate, where, says Slather, "he remained for three and three times three years. cultivating the vineyard of the Lord." In 1654 he planned to return to his old pastorate at Ware; but the overseers of Harvard had meantime chosen him to succeed President Minster, and "by their ve hement importunity" induced him to remain. From this time until his death he was president of the college. Besides a number of sermons. he published: Thc Doctrine of the Sacrament, with. the Bight Use Thereof (1612) ; The Philo Doc trine of lb, Justification of a sinner in the sight of God (111591, a collection of twenty-six mons : and isynodolio a( cricana (1662). Consult : "11te interesting sketch in Cot ton Slather, t London, 17(12). and Fowler, Memorial., of lice rhanneeys (Boston. 1858).