Author: CAPEL (Arthur, Baron Capel of Hadham):
Title: Excellent Contemplations, Divine and Moral Written by the Magnanimous and truly Loyal Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham. Together with some Account of his Life, and his Letters to several Persons, whilst he was Prisoner in the Tower, vigourously asserting the Royal Cause against all the Enemies thereof. Likewise his Affectionate Letters to his Lady, the Day before his Death, and his Couragious [sic] Behaviour, and last Speech at his Suffering. March 9l 1648. With his Pious Advice to his Son, that late Earl of Essex.
Description: London, Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside. 1683. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 140 x 80 mms., pp.[iv], 223 [i.e. 203. 204 - 205 Epitaphs, 206 - 210 adverts], including engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin; spine and corners worn and binding a bit dried and worn, with an armorial bookshelf plate and motto "credunt quod vident" [they believe what they see], the motto of the Elliott family, on the front paste-down end-paper. The Royalist and army officer Arthur Capel, first Baron Capel of Hadham (1604–1649) had almost no military experience at all, and his support of Charles I was ambiguous. In his Oxford DNB article, Ronald Hutton describes him as "prim, sober, and pious, with a rigid devotion to duty and a profound attachment to the Sacraments in the Anglican form."

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