, whose name we find sometimes spelt Chamney, Chancy, and Channy, was
, whose name we find sometimes spelt Chamney, Chancy, and Channy, was a monk of
the Charter-house, London, and with many others of the
same order, was imprisoned in the reign of Henry VIII.
for refusing to own his supremacy. When the monastery
was dissolved, and several of his brethren executed in
1535, Chauncy and a few others contrived to remain
unmolested partly in England and partly in Flanders, until
the accession of queen Mary, when they were replaced at
Shene near Richmond, a monastery formerly belonging to
the Carthusians. On the queen’s death, they were permitted to go to Flanders, under Chauncy, who was now
their prior. The unsettled state of the reformation there
obliged them to remove from Bruges to Doway, and from
Doway to Louvain, where they remained until a house was
prepared for them at Nieuport, and there at length they
obtained a settlement under the crown of Spam, Chauncy, however, died at Bruges July 15, 1581, highly respected by those of his own order. Of his works one only
is worth mentioning, entitled “Historia aliquot nostri
saeculi Martyrum, cum pia, turn lectu jucunda, nuuqua.ni
antehac typis excusa,
” printed at Mentz,