Summary

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 5… (1911)

“ The transference from the reading to the assembly itself, and to the members constituting it, was easy, through such phrases as convenire ad capitulum. The title “chapter” is similarly used of the assembled body of knights of a military or other order. (See also Canon; Cathedral; Dean) . ”
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