Chapels

Perhaps the following remarks will be of service to "Mr. GATTY" in the solution of his Queries touching the word *Chapel* (No. 21.). Spelman (*Glossary, sub voce*) endeavours to convince us that *capella* is the same as *capsella*, the diminutive of *capsa*; thus making *chapel*, in the first instance, "a small repository" (*sc.* of relics). Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its harshness and insipidity. I think the common derivation (from *capella*, diminutive of *capa*) very much preferable to any other, both on the score of philology and of history. Ducange has qu…