Background
He was born at an uncertain date, the eldest son of John Chauncey.
He was born at an uncertain date, the eldest son of John Chauncey.
lieutenant may be that he studied at Oxford, and afterwards went to Gray"s Inn for a course of law, but his meanderings led him to enter the London Charterhouse which years earlier had attracted another law student, Thomas More.
In 1535 the majority of the Carthusians refused to take the Oath of Supremacy, but Chauncy, on his own confession, agreed to lieutenant After the "surrender" of the monastery in 1537, Chauncy with a few others still at liberty joined the Carthusians of Sheen who had settled in Bruges. With the accession of Queen Mary hopes for a Catholic restoration revived and some nineteen monks belonging to various houses gathered at Sheen, Chauncy being elected prior there in 1556.
When the hostility of the Calvinists compelled the community to leave Bruges in 1578 they attempted to settle at Douai.
After this attempt failed, they retired to Louvain in May 1578. Chauncy died at the old house in Bruges on July 2, 1581.
The English community kept together with varying fortunes, until the charterhouse of Sheen Anglorum at Nieuwpoort in Flanders, at that time with a community of six choir monks and two donnés, was suppressed by Joseph II in 1783.