"A Dialogue on Education," attributed to lord Herbert, was published in 1768, 4to. and several of his lordship's letters may be found among the Harleian manuscripts. A folio musicbook presented by the earl of Powis to Thomas Jones, esq. has the following memorandum in the fly-leaf: "The Lute-Booke of Edward lord Herbert of Cherbury and Castle-island, containing divers selected lessons of excellent authours in several countreys: wherein also are some few of my owne composition. E. Herbert."] A particular description of the above curiosity is given by Mr. Dovaston, in the Gent. Mag. for January. 1816. IT ARTHUR, LORD CAPEL. T was a remarkable scene exhibited on the scaffold on which lord Capel fell at the same time was executed the once gay, beautiful, gallant earl of Holland, whom neither the honours showered on him by his prince, nor his former more tender connexions with the queen, could preserve from betraying and engaging against both. He now appeared sunk beneath the indignities and cruelty he received from men to whom and from whom he had deserted- while the brave Capel, who having shunned the splendour of Charles's fortunes, had stood forth to guard them on their decline, trod the fatal stage with all the dignity of valour and conscious integrity.2 2 [So said the anonymous author of a poem in Vaticinium Votivum, entitled, "Obsequies on that unexemplar Champion of Chivalrie, and Pattern of true Prowess, Arthur, Lord Capel: "The scaffold turn'd a stage: where, 'tis confest, The last act, though most bloodie, prov'd thy best: The yard's thy palace, and a glorious prince Thy president, who after him art hurl'd He wrote, "A Book of Meditations," published after his death; to which are added. a few of his letters.4 [Lord Capel was the only son and heir of sir Henry Capel, who died in the flower of his age. He succeeded to the family estate on the death of his grandfather, sir Arthur, and following the example of his ancestors, says Collins', was very eminent for his hospitality to his neighbours, and great charities to the poor, which endeared him to the hearts of the people, who chose him to serve in parliament for the county of Hertford, in 1639 and 1640. In the following year he was advanced to a barony by Charles the first, with the title of lord Capel of Hadham. Upon the breaking out of the civil war, he raised at To meet thy sovereign in another world: John Quarles has an elegy on lord Capel, annexed to Regale Lectum Miseriæ, 1649; and Sheppard has another, in his scarce volume of Epigrams, 1651.] 3 Fuller in Hertfordshire, p. 28. "His device was a sceptre and crown or, on a field azure, with this motto, Perfectissima Gubernatio. Vide Catal. of Coronet Devices in the Civil War, at the end of a thin pamphlet, called the Art of making Devices, done into English by T. Blount, 1648. 5 Peerage, vol. iii. p. 308. |