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Chapellane, -ayn(e, n. Also: chapellain, chapillayn(e, chap(p)yllayne; chapelane, chapillan(e, chapalane, -allan. [ME. chapelayn, chappelayn(e, chapell-, chapeleyn (c 1300), OF. chapelain. See also Chaplane and Cheplane.] A chaplain.(a) 1329 Exch. R. I. 216.
Laurencio chapillayn Ib. 245.
Laurencio chapelayn 1416 Douglas Corr. 234.
O late we wrot to ȝhow witht our trast and wel belufit chapellayn c1420 Wynt. vii. 1834.
The Kyng Willame … stwde this gud man hale agayne In fawowr of his awyne chapyllayne 1425 Reg. Great S. 11/1.
Our luwyt chapellayne Sir Wilyeam Myddilmast, vicare of Selkirc 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 234.
Gevin to Rore M^c Alexander, Makcloydis chapellain, iiij ellis of Rissillis blak 1509 Crim. Trials I. 110.
Schir Lancelote Patonsoun, chapellain 1513 Colquhoun Chart. II. 324.
Schir George Fallusdayll, chapyllayne(b) 1399 Melville Chart. 15.
Williame of Ross, chapellane, Adam of Corry, notare 1405 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 201.
Schir Iohnne of Busby, chapellane 1429 Reg. Episc. Brechin I. 42.
Fourty punde of annuale rent ȝerly to be raysyt … to the sustentatioun of twa chapellanys 1445 Peebles B. Rec. ii.
The vicar or his chappellane that beris cur of the parischyn vnder the vicar sal remufe hym 1455 Edinb. Chart. 79.
That we sal assing the chapellane … to sing at the alter fra that tyme furth 1473 Lindores Abbey 167.
The chapellan on the eyn off his obit, to say placebo and dirgy 1499 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 79.
The chapellane … to serue thame of mes and sacramentis of halie kirk 1508 Reg. Privy S. I. 251/2.
Chapellane of his chapel newly bigat be his hienes at the barreris under his castell wall of Edinburgh 1550 Reg. Cupar A. II. 87.
Our louittis oratour and chapellane, Sir Iohne Smytht 1571 Misc. Bann. C. III. 143.
M^r Bell, tone of the chapellaneis of the Bishop of Ely 1594 Exch. Rolls XXII. 392.
The landis of Kirkhill … disponit and admortizat of auld to the dene and chapellanis of Restalrig(c) 1466 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 244.
The chapillanis of sanct Peteris hospitale 1462 Chart. (Reg. H.) No. 368.
Schire Iohn of Haatoun chapillane and prest 1490 Fam. Rose 153.
Schir Iohne Makysone, chappylane 1490 Irland Mir. I. 15/23.
To resaue this werk … be sic luf and mynd as thi chapillane and oratoure has lauborit in it 1534–5 Linlithgow Pal. MS. 21 b.
Schir Thomas Iohnsoun, chapillane and oursear to the werk of the paliss 1550 Treas. Acc. IX. 449.
Schir Iames Inglische, chapillane of oure Lady altar