Chantry

Chauntry. [L. Lat. cantorta.] In old English ecc Iesiasti Gal law. A church or chapel endowed with lands or other yearly revenues for the maintenance of one or more priests to sing [or chant, cantare,'] mass daily for the souls of the donors, and such others as they appointed. Termes de la ley. CowelL Spelman, voc.

Cantaria.

See 4 Co. 96, Adams d: Lam' berths caite, where a will granting such an endowment is given.

A private religious foundation

of which there were many in England before the Reformati(Hi, established for the purpose of keeping up a perpetual succession of prayers for the prosperity of some particular family while living, and the repose of the souls of those members of it who were deceased; but especially of the founder and other persons specifically named by him in the instrument of foundation. P.

Cycloposdia

They were usually little chapels, or particular altars in some cathedral or parochial church.

Blount.

See P. CycU^^ia.