Chaste: com. Chast, lustlesse, continent, honest of bodie; pure, vndefiled; inuiolated, not distained with filth, or any (vnlawfull) Venerie.
Chasteadun. The chiefe towne of the Countie of Dunois; whose inhabitants being as rash, as quicke spirited, gaue beginning to the prouerbiall phrase. Il est de Chasteadun. He replies too hastily; he is too quicke of conceit; presuming he vnderstands all ones meaning by one word, he often mistakes all.
Chasteau: m. A castle (is properly, a house furnished with towers, incompassed by walls, and ditches; and strengthened by a Mount, or Donjon in the middest; yet the French Courtiers tearme so any house of the kings;) also, a Rooke at Chesse. Chasteau deuant. The fore-castle of a ship. Faire des chasteaux en Espaigne. To build castles in the aire (say we;) to muse he knowes not about what; to bestow the time in friuolous contemplations; to bee full of wandering, and vain imaginations; to propound vnto himselfe, or others, most idle, or impossible, exploits; (for there are but few Castles in the main land of Spain; or if more were to be built, who hath to do withall but the Spaniard?) Chasteau abbatu est à demi refaict: Prov. A castle once throwne downe is halfe repaired. Bon chasteau garde qui sçait sont corps garder: Prov. A good fort guards he, that himselfe can guard.
Chastel: m. as Chasteau; also, a kind of Peare whereof excellent Perrie is made; also, a chattell; or, stuffe, goods, moueables.
Deniers chastels. Looke Chaptels.
Chastelain: m. A Lord Castellain; the Lord, or owner of a castle, or of a fortified house; or of a territorie, vnto which Castle-like Iurisdiction, and Royalties, belong; inferiour to a Baron in ranke (thoughin few points of Rights) and the meanest Lord of dignitie that is; also, the Gouernour, Captaine, Constable, or Iudge, of a Castle, or of a Towne that hath, or hath had, a castle in it; such as be, at this day, Les Chastelains des villes de Dauphiné, Auvergne, and Poictou; as also those of the countrey of Forests (wherein there be Iudges of this name, whose Iurisdiction exceedes not matters of threescore shillings value;) And as now in these Prouinces Les Chastelains are, euen so heretofore in all others they were, but Officers, (Captaines, or Iudges) placed by Dukes, or Earles (that had large Territories) within their principall, and most remote Bouroughes, to containe the inhabitants in obedience, or to administer Iustice vnto them, in ordinarie matters (for they were allowed to exercise no other then basse Iustice in villages, and moyenne in townes;) Thus hauing the commaund of Places, and being farre from their Lords, they incroached, by degrees, on the Inheritance, and Seignorie thereof, and so became of Officers, absolute Lords; turning all duties, and rights, which formerly they yeelded vnto their founders, into a bare Tenure; or holding (as vassales, or tenants) that of them, which at first (as Ministers, or Deputies) they held vnder them: And afterwards not contented with La Basse or moyenne Iustice, they vsurped La haute; and (more then that) all such extraordinarie, or two-fold Iurisdiction as the Barons of those times had; and held it vntill the yeare 1573. (Looke Droict de Bailliage;) Also, the Iudge, or Steward of a Lord Castellains Courts.
Grand chastelain. A Lord Baron; called so in many
places, from the conformitie that is betweene the Estates of a Baron, and a Chastelain, who hath vsurped (almost) all Baron-like Rights, and Royalties.
Chastelain: m. aine: f. Of, or belonging to, a Castle; Castleship, Castlewicke, or Castleward.
Chastelainerie: f. as Chastellenie; or the Stewardship of a Lord Castellains courts. Chastelet: m. A little Castle, Fort, or Hould; also, a Court, or Auditorie, of Iustice; a Guild-hall, or (ordinarie) Sessions house, within a citie, wherein both ciuile, and criminall causes are heard, and determined by a Lieutenant, or Prouost (royall) and certaine Assistant Conseillers; also, a prison (for great persons;) also, the childish game Cobnut; or (rather) the throwing of a Ball at a heape of Nuts, which done, the thrower takes as many as he hath hit, or scattered. Le petit Chastelet. The name of a prison.
Chastellain. Looke Chastelain. Chastellé: m. ée: f. Castellated (a tearme of Blason.) Chastellenie: f. A Castle-wicke, or Castleship; the Tenure, or Honour of a Castleship; the Estate, Iurisdiction, or Dignitie of a Lord Castellain; a kind of Seigniorie thats held of some other then the king, or not directly of the Crowne, and hath all (subalterne) Iurisdiction annexed vnto it. (In respect whereof, Toutes les Iustices ayans plein Territorie, & entier commandement sont appellées Chastellenies; and in old Law-bookes this word often signifies, L'enclaue, & distroict de toute pleine, & entiere Iustice, sayes a learned Frenchman;) And though it be inferiour to a Baronnie in point of dignitie, and sometimes subiect in Tenure (some Chastellenies being held of Barons) and haue a farre lesse Territorie belonging to it (for a Baronnie should containe at least three Chastellenies) yet doth it resemble it in all Priuiledges, and Royalties; except that of the walled, or fortified towne; in stead whereof, the Lord Castellain may haue a castle, or fortified house; and hath power to debarre any one from building such another within his Territorie, though the King haue graunted the other a Licence to doe it. Droict de chastellenie. So is Droict de Bailliage called in the custome of Meaux; because it belongs vnto Lords Castellains.
Chastellerie. as Chastellenie. Chastement. Chastly, continently, honestly, modestly, without lust.
Chasteneraïe: f. A plot, or ground full of Chestnut trees.
Chasteté: f. Chastitie, continencie, lustlesnesse.
Chastiable: com. Chasticeable; fit to be chastised.
Chastié: m. ée: f. Chastised, punished; corrected.
Chastier. To chastise, punish; correct. Qui bien aime bien chastie: Prov. He that loues throughly, payes home when he punishes. Qui ne chastie culot ne chastie culasse: Prov. He that censures not small faults, ouersees great ones; or, he that will not amend small faults, cannot amend great ones.
Chastieur: m. A Chastiser, Punisher; Corrector.
Chastiment: m. Chasticement, punishment, correction.
Chasti-villain. A whip, scourge, or cudgell for a knaue; also, a Castle, or Citadell in, or neere, a good Towne.
