Giles Capel
[6] Her will included a bequest of a manuscript prayer book and a printed missal for the altar of the family chantry chapel at St Bartholomew-the-Less.
As mayor of London, he had some dealing with two officers of Henry VII, Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley,[8] and was censured in a legal court in 1504.
His jousting was commemorated in a poem printed by Wynkyn de Worde, The justes of the moneth of Maye, parfurnyssed and done by Charles Brandon, Thomas Knyuet, Gyles Capel, and Wyllyam Hussy, the XXII yere of Kynge Henry the Seventh.
[20][21] Their emblem was a "verte cocle", a green scallop shell:Thus these foure seruauntes of this lady foresaydEntred the felde, there for to be assaydeGorgyously apparayled and araydeAnd for pleasaunceAnd in a maner for a cognysaunceOf Mayes month they bare a souenaunceOf a verte cocle was the resemblaunceTatched ryght fastAbout theyr neckes as longe as May dyde lasteBut about theyr neckes it was not casteFor challenge, but they weere it tyll May was pastRedy to Iust[22][23]One unsuccessful performance was recorded in a chronicle, Henry VIII "commanded master Gyles Capel to run, howbeit his horse that day did him not most pleasant service.
His 1512 marriage settlement lists some of his creditors, including the goldsmith Nicholas Worley or Warley, and his mother made arrangements to help.
[30] Entries in the privy purse accounts show that Capel brought gifts of food to Henry VIII, including cheese, partridges, and pheasants.
He wrote from Rayne agreeing to Henry's request, saying that previously he had refused to let the house to the Queen Dowager Catherine of Aragon, and asked only to reserve a "warehouse" in the building for his family papers.
[37] His will mentions that he should be buried next to his wife Mary Denys at Rayne, his tomb built in brick, and his sword placed above his funeral achievements.
[42] According to Nicolas Tindal and Philip Morant, historians of the county of Essex, there was heraldic stained glass in the windows over the parlour at Rayne Hall and on the great staircase a panel dated 1553 with the heraldry of Giles Capel.
[46][47][48][49] The bequest was intended to entail the chain and a bed with embroidered curtains and other items in the Capel family:"his faders cheyne which was younge kyng Edwarde the Vth's.
[51][52] Margaret Capel's older step-sister Anne was the wife of James Tyrrell, who is thought to have been involved in the deaths of the Princes in the Tower.
[64] Dame Mary Capel wrote to Thomas Cromwell in October 1535, offering him £20 for a horse if he would secure her overdue payments from an annuity she received from the exchequer.
