CHAPLAIN, (Copellanus,) one attendant on the household of the king, or other honourable person, to say divine service, which is commonly performed in the family private chapel. Each individual of the royal fa mily may retain any number of chaplains; but by stat. 21 Hen. VIII, c. 13, an archbishop is limited to eight ; a duke or a bishop six ; marquis or earl five; viscount four ; baron, knight of the garter, or lord chancellor, three ; a duchess, marchioness, countess, baroness, (be ing widows,) the treasurer and comptroller of the king's house, the king's secretary, dean of the chapel, almo ner, and master of the rolls, e ach of the m two ; the chief justice of the king's bench, and ward( n of the cirque ports, one. And by stat. 25 1 I Cll. I i i. c. every judge of the king's bench and common pleas, the chancellor and chief baronf o. the C 111•Tler, and the king's attorney and solicitor general, may each of them have one chaplain attendant on his person. And by 33 lien. VIII. c. 28, the groom of the stole, treasurer of the king's chamber, and chancellor of the duchy of Lan caster, may also retain each one chaplain. Under the 21
of I I em•y, the statute first quoted, the chaplains thereby allowed may purchase a licence or dispensation, and take two benefices with cure of souls ; but those allowed by the two last can have one benefice only, on which they may be non-resident.
In England, the king has commonly forty-eight chap lains in appointment, !bur for each month of the year, whose duty is to preach in the chapels-royal, and read the service to the family. They have no salary, being commonly well provided otherwise. In Scotland he has six, who have each a salary of 501. and three of these have besides the deanery of the chapel-royal divided among them, which extends their emolument to up wards of 1001. each. The sum of their duty is to say prayers at the election of the sixteen representative peers for Scotland. (3. n.)