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 6 CAPELL coh. of Baptist (Hicks), Viscount Campden. She,(*) who brought her hus- band the estate of Cashiobury, in Watford, Herts, d. id Jan., and was bur. 6 Feb. i66o/i,at Hadham, aged 51. Will dat. 2 Jan., pr. 13 Feb. 1660/1. 11. 1649. 2. Arthur (Capell), Baron Capell of Hadham, s. and h., bap. 28 Jan. 163 1/2, at Hadham. On 20 Apr. 1 66 1 he was cr. VISCOUNT MALDEN, co. Essex, and EARL OF ESSEX. See "Essex," Earldom of, cr. 1661. CAPELL OF TEW^KESBURYC) BARONY. I. Henry Capell, 2nd s. of Arthur, ist Baron J ^ Capell of Hadham, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir ^^92 Charles Morrison, Bart., K.B., was bap. 6 Mar. 1637/8, ° at Hadham Parva, Herts. K.B. 23 Apr. 1661. M.P. " ■ (Whig) for Tewkesbury, 1660-81, and 1690-92, and for Cockermouth 1689-90. P.C. [L] Apr. 1673 to Mar. 1684/5, re-appointed June 1693; P.C. [E.] 22 Apr. 1679 to 31 Jan. 1679/80, resworn 14 Feb. 1688/9. First Lord of the Admiralty Feb. 1678/9 to Feb. 1679/80; was a zealous supporter of the exclusion bills; one of the Lords of the Treasury, 1689-90. On 11 Apr. 1692 he was cr. BARON CAPELL OF TEWKESBURY, co. Gloucester. He was one of the three Lords Justices of Ireland, 1693. Lord Deputy OF Ireland, 27 May 1695 till his death. He m. (settl. 16 Feb. 1658/9) Dorothy, da. and coh. of Richard Bennet, of Kew Green, Surrey (br. of Sir Thomas Bennet, Bart., of Babraham), by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Robert Leman, of Ipswich. He d. s.p., of convulsions, at Chapelizod, 30 May, and was bur. 8 Sep. 1696, at Hadham, aged 58, when his honours became extinct. Will dat. 8 Sep. 1692, pr. 4 Jan. 1 696/7. (■=) His widow d. at Kew, Surrey, 7, and was bur. there 15 June 1721, aged 79. M.I. Will, in which she states that she was b. in St. Andrew's, Holborn, dat. 18 Aug. 1719, pr. 21 June 1 72 1. CAPPOQUIN See "Keane of Ghusnee in Afghanistan and Cappoquin, co. Water- ford," Barony {Keane), cr. 1839. (*) See vol. ii, p. 516, note "a." Clarendon speaks of her as "an excellent wife, a lady of very worthy extraction, of great virtue and beauty." C") See note " b " on preceding page. (^) "Lord Capell was a very weak, formal, conceited man; had no other merit than being a violent party man." (Note to Burnet's History by Lord Dartmouth). His skill in gardening (which he shared with his elder br., the Earl of Essex) is men- tioned by Evelyn. V.G.