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CANVILLE 5 he d. v.p. before 3 Feb. 1322/3.0 (2) Alianore, uiim. (3) Isabel, wife of Gilbert de Bermingham. (4) Nicole, wife of John de Saint Clere. (5) Katherine, wife of Robert de Greseleye. Among their representa- tives any hereditary Barony, that may be supposed to have been created by the writ of 1295, is in abeyance. CAPELL OF HADHAMC) BARONY. I. Arthur Capell, of Hadham Parva, Herts, and Rayne Hall, Essex, s. and h. of Sir Henry C, by his ist I. 1641. wife, Theodosia, da. of Sir Edward IVIontagu (which Sir Henry, who d. v.p., 29 Apr. 1622, was s. and h. ap. of Sir Arthur Capell, of Hadham and Rayne Hill afsd.), was b. 20 Feb., and bap. 11 Mar. 1603/4, at Hadham afsd.; J«c. his grandfather in Apr. 1632; M.P. for Herts in the Short Pari., Apr. to May 1640, and again (in the Long Pari.) 1640-41. On 5 Aug. 1641, he was cr. BARON CAPELL OF HADHAM, co. Hertford. Knighted 17 Jan., and P.C. I Mar. 1644/5. -H^ fought valiantly in the Royal cause,() especially (when Lieut. Gen. of Shropshire, Cheshire, and North Wales) against Sir William Brereton. He was one of the garrison at Colchester, which surrendered 27 Aug. 1648, when he was sent a prisoner to the Tower of London, whence he escaped, but was recaptured 2 Feb. following at Lam- beth. He was condemned to death by the High Court of Justice, and (together with the Duke of Hamilton [S.] and the Earl of Holland) was beheaded (a few weeks after the King) in Palace Yard, Westminster,^) 9, and was bur. 20 Mar, 1648/9, at Hadham, aged 45. M.L(') He w., 28 Nov. 1627 (settl. 5 Nov.), Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Charles Morrison, Bart., K.B., by Mary, da. and (') Ch. Inq. p. «., Edw. II, file 75, no. 17. () There is a very full genealogy of the Capell family, by Duncan Warrand, in Hertfordshire Families (Victoria Co. Hist.), to which J. H. Round has prefixed a narrative sketch. V.G. (■=) Of him Clarendon writes that " he frankly engaged his person and his fortune from the beginning of the troubles, as many others did, in all actions and enterprizes of the greatest hazard and danger; and continued to the end, without ever making one false step, zs few others did," and, again, "whoever shall after him deserve best of the English nation, can never think himself undervalued when he shall hear that his courage, virtue, and fidelity are laid in the balance with and compared to that of the Lord Capel." "The poet, not unhappily, alluding to his arms; (a lion rampant in a field of gules between three crosses) expresseth it ' Our lyonlike Capel undaunted stood Beset with crosses in a field of blood.' " (Lloyd, 1665). V.G. ('^) See The Loyalists' Bloody Roll, vol. ii. Appendix A. ("=) Where it is stated that he "was murdered for his loyalty."