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Cheynell, Francis (1608-65), Puritan. Son of an Oxford physician. * D.N.B.' does not specify which grammar school he attended there, but Wood (' Athense,' ii. 703) says :

"After he had been educated in grammar learn- ing, either in the school of that noted Grecian Edward Sylvester (who taught in All Saints' parish) or else in the free-school of Magd. Coll., or in both, he became a member of this University (Mertou Coll.) in the beginning of 1623."

Chaplain in Parliamentary army ; member of Westminster Assembly; violent adversary of Chillingworth ; one of the seven preachers of 1646, and one of the Parliamentary Visitors to Oxford University ; intruded President of St. John's Coll. ; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity ; called by Mercurius Pragmaticus "M r May -pole- Cheynel."

Chibald, James (b. 1612), Royalist divine. Chorister ; succeeded to rectory of his father (next).

Chibald, William (15,75-1641), divine and author. Chorister; rector of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London ; father of last.

Chillingworth, William (1602-44), theo- logian. Son of a mercer who afterwards became Mayor of Oxford. * D.N.B.' does not specify which grammar school he attended therein, but Wood thinks he may have been at M.C.S. Laud's godson ; embraced, and then abjured, Romanism ; the friend of Falk- land ; in August, 1643, when with the king before Gloucester, said to have revived the mediaeval siege-machine known as " the sow," akin to the Roman testudo ; taken prisoner in December by Waller, at surrender of Arundel Castle, where he had acted as chief engineer ; obtained leave to retire to Chichester, where he died. John Aubrey says: "In his sicknesse he was inhumanly treated by Dr. Cheynell, who, when he was to be buryed, threw his booke ('Religion of Protestants ') into the grave with him, say- ing, " Rott with the rotten ; let the dead bury the dead " ; v. S. R. Gardiner's ' History of the Great Civil War,' i. 285. A draw- ing of him in Sutherland Collection in Bodleian.

Claympnd, alias Coward, John (1457 1- 1537), divine and scholar. Eucharistise Servus ; President of Magdalen ; Master of St. Cross, Winchester ; first President of C.C.C., Oxon, at founder's request ; bene- factor to C.C.C., B N.C, and to Alagdalen, to which he left money "ad uberiorem refec- tionom " for the members, from President down to choristers ; lie also provided four beds for the poor in the "almshouse " (vault under chapel of the ancient Hospital of St. John, incorporated in Magdalen, and

long since converted into rooms) ; his bras& in C.C.C. ante-chapel represents him as a. skeleton enveloped in a shroud.

Clerk, John (d. 1552), R.C. writer. Chorister in 1508 ; school omitted by 'D.N.B.'; M.A. 1515 ; vicar of Sela next year; Secretary to Thomas, Duke of Nor- folk ; hanged himself with his girdle when imprisoned in the Tower.

Clifford, James (1622 - 98), divine and musician. Son of an Oxford cook ; chorister 1632 ; Minor Canon of St. Paul's ; published ' Divine Services and Anthems '; his younger brother Thomas (b. 1633) also a chorister.

Coles, Elisha (1640 ] - 80), lexicographer and stenographer. Chorister 1658 ; second under- master of Merchant Taylors' School ;, appointed Master of Gal way School by its founder ; nephew of Calvinist of same names, the intruded steward of Magdalen Coll. and manciple of Magdalen Hall.

Colet, John (1467 ?-1519), Dean of St. Paul's, and founder of St. Paul's School. Went to Oxford in 1483, when apparently about sixteen, and is supposed to have been later a Commoner at Magdalen ; report of Royal Commissioners for Public Schools Enquiry Commission of 1866 boldly ascribes him to M.C.S. ; Dr. Rashdall (' Universities of Europe in Middle Ages,' ii. pt. ii. 514n.)- says, "At Magdalen Colet learned the method which he embodied in his 'eight parts of speech,' which he dedicated to the first High Master of his School, the famous Lily"; lectured on New Testament; friend of Erasmus ; his portrait in the College Hall a copy of an older picture ; his tomb in old St. Paul's destroyed in Great Fire.

Cooper or Couper, Thomas (1517 ?-94), Bishop of Winchester. Son of a very poor tailor in Cat Street, Oxford ; chorister ;: Fellow ; Master of M.C.S. 1549-68, succeeding John Slade (a schoolmaster of same names, afterwards executed at Winchester), and followed by Nicholas Balguay (Master of the Temple, &c.), one John Boldern being Master for part of 1558 and part of 1559 ; issued a Latin dictionary and other works ; Dean of Ch. Ch. and Vice - Chancellor ; Dean of" Gloucester ; Bishop of Lincoln.

Corfe, Joseph (b. 1806), chorister, and George, chorister (in 1818). Second and fourth sons of Arthur T. Corfe, organist of Sarum Cathedral and composer (see 'D.N.B.');: the former a beneficed clergyman in Exeter ; the latter resident medical officer atMiddlesex Hospital. When the choir roof of Merton Chapel was decorated under the personal supervision of J. H. Pollen, one of the- Fellows, in June, 1850,