In April 1489, he lent money to a goldsmith Symond Garardson on the security of a group of diamond and ruby rings.
[8][9] As mayor of London, he had some dealings with two officers of Henry VII, Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley.
[11] In 1507, William Capel was imprisoned for not acting against the circulation of counterfeit money, by a jury said to have been influenced by Dudley and Empson.
[18][19] She made a number of bequests of rich fabrics to churches, some of which she had embroidered herself, especially for the family's chantry chapel at St Bartholomew-the-Less.
[20][21] She also bequeathed a chain of her late husband's, which had belonged to the "yonge kyng" Edward V, to her son Sir Giles Capel.