Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837. Originally published by University of London, London, 2006.
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'The Chapel Royal: Chaplains, 1660-1837', in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837, ed. R O Bucholz( London, 2006), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol11/pp251-278 [accessed 26 November 2024].
'The Chapel Royal: Chaplains, 1660-1837', in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837. Edited by R O Bucholz( London, 2006), British History Online, accessed November 26, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol11/pp251-278.
"The Chapel Royal: Chaplains, 1660-1837". Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837. Ed. R O Bucholz(London, 2006), , British History Online. Web. 26 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol11/pp251-278.
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Chaplains 1660–1837
The chaplains were appointed by lord chamberlain's warrant. Prior to 1702, large numbers of chaplains in ordinary and extraordinary were appointed. From the former were drawn the forty-eight chaplains actually in waiting, four being assigned to each month of the year, each to wait for one week. (fn. 1) After 1702 only the 48 active chaplains in waiting (still officially designated as 'in Ordinary') were appointed. In 1720, their duties were as follows:
They are to preach in the Royal Chapel on Sundays, and other Festivals; and in the Morning before the Household: To read Divine Service before the King, out of Chapel, twice a Day in the private Oratory; and to say Grace to the King at Dinner, in the Absence of the Clerk of the Closet). (fn. 2)
Originally, the chaplains in waiting received board wages of 12s. a day. In 1665 they were granted diet instead. According to The Present State of the British Court, their lack of a salary 'besides the Honour of the Employment, is abundantly made up to them, by being constantly in the King's Eye, for Spiritual Preferment, and being esteem'd to merit from Him by this their Attendance at Court'. (fn. 3) In 1805 their table was commuted to an allowance of £30 a year. (fn. 4)