Britanny, 179, 180;
treaty with Henry VIII., 180;
invades Italy, 186, 206

Charles IX., king of France, iv. 188, 298, 299, 301

Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, ii. 258, 259

Charles II., king of Spain, vii. 90, 98

Charles IV., king of Spain, viii. 185

Charles XII., king of Sweden, vii. 183, 188, 189

Charles the Bald, king of the West Franks, i. 209.

Charles the Simple, king of the West Franks, i. 155

Charles of Blois. _See_ Blois

Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, iii. 122, 125, 127, 128;
duke of Burgundy, 130;
league with Edward, _ib._;
marries Margaret of York, 131;
negotiates with the Lancastrians, 140;
helps Edward, 141;
attacks Lewis again, 145;
his German possessions, 146;
alliance with the emperor, _ib._, 147;
with England, 148;
besieges Neuss, _ib._, 149;
slain, 150

Charlestown, capture of, viii. 32

Charmouth, battle of, i. 103

Charter of Henry I., i. 198, 340, 341;
of Stephen, 216;
the Great, 348-352;
provisions for its execution, 353;
annulled by the Pope, 354;
reissued under Henry III., ii. 1, 3;
Langton's care for, 6;
confirmed by Henry, _ib._, 34;
Archbishop Peckham's appeal to, 118;
confirmed by Edward I., 165, 166, 170;
of the Forest, 165, 166, 170

Charter-house, the, in London, ii. 253;
its martyrs, iii. 320; v. 77

Chateau-Gaillard, i. 265, 266

Chatillon, 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 AEthelfrith, 60, 61;
by William, 169;
raid of Llewelyn ap Gruffydd on, ii. 85;
blockade of, vi. 38

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