Charles was suspended for his opposition to Laudianism and in 1638 emigrated with his family to colonial New England, where he became a minister and president of Harvard College.
[1] He was chaplain to Sir Edward Harley's regiment at Dunkirk at the time the Uniformity Act was passed.
In 1684 he was again prosecuted under the same act, and was imprisoned in the common gaol for eighteen weeks before he was tried, when he was sentenced to lose his estate both real and personal, and to leave the realm within three months.
[2] Chauncey resided in Holland, where he studied medicine at Leiden and ministered to a congregation, until 1686, when a pardon allowed him to return to Bristol.
[1] His only work is Innocence vindicated by a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Court of Sessions in Bristol against I. C., Physician, to his Conviction on the Statute of the 36th Elizabeth, 1684.