CHAPLAIN, an ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs service in a chapel, whether public or private.
In England there are forty-eight royal chaplains, who attend, four each month, to perform divine service for the royal family. While in waiting they have a table and attendance, but no salary. In Scotland there are six royal chaplains, with a salary of £50 each, three of them having in addition the deanery of the chapel-royal divided among
them, making up about £600 a year to each. Their only duty at present is to say prayers at the election of representative peers for Scotland.