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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Chaplains to Noblemen_ (Vol. vii., p. 85.).--The statute in which
chaplains to noblemen are first named is 21 Henry VIII. c. 13. (1529); in
which, by sect. 11., it is enacted, "that every Archbysshop and Duke may
have vj chapleyns;" "every Markes and Erle may have fyve chapleyns;" "every
vycecount and other Byshop may have foure chapleyns;" and "the Chancellour
of England for the tyme beying and every Baron or Knyght of the Garter may
have thre chapleyns:" and one chaplain of each order, whether Duke,
Marquess, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, is thereby authorised to purchase
"lycence or dispensacion to take, receyve, and kepe two parsonages or
benefices with cure of souls" (_Stat. of the Realm_, vol. iii. p. 294.). I
believe that X. will find a regular registry of these appointments in
Doctors' Commons.
It may be interesting to add, that among the other persons named in this
statute are the Master of the Rolls, who may have "two chapleyns;" and the
"Chefe Justice of the Kinges Benche," who may have "one chapleyn." By
another statute, 25 Henry VIII. c. 16. (1533-4), this last power to have
one chaplain is extended to "every Jugge of the seid high courtes" (King's
Bench and Common Pleas), "the Chaunceller and Cheffe Baron of the
Exchequer, the kynges generall attorney and generall soliciter" (_Ibid._ p.
457.)