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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

An ecclesiastic who performs divine service in a chapel; but it more commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerie¢:] duties in a private chapel.

4 Coke, 90.

A clergyman officially attached to a ship of war, to an army, (or regiment,) or to some public institution, for the purpose of performing divine service.

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