WHAT IS A CHAPEL?

What is the most approved derivation of the word Chapel?—*Capella*, from the goat-skin covering of what was at first a movable tabernacle? *capa*, a cape worn by *capellanus*, the chaplain? *capsa*, a chest for sacred relics? *kaba Eli* (Heb.), the house of God? or what other and better etymon? Is it not invariably the purpose of a Chapel to supply the absence or incommodiousness of the parish church? At what period of ecclesiastical history was the word Chapel first introduced? If there be any truth in the legend that St. Martin's hat was carried before the kings of France in their expedition…