XXVI. Account of the Discovery and Interment of the Heart of Arthur Lord Capel. In a Letter from the Rev. Anthony Hamilton, F.R.S. V.P. S.A. to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary

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Soon after you communicated to me the anecdote relating to Lord Capel's wish, that his heart might be taken from his body, after his murder by Oliver Cromwell, and preserved for the purpose of its being interred with the body of Charles the First, when the restoration of the family to the crown should take place, I mentioned the circumstance to my friend Richard Stanley, Esq. of the Temple, one of the members of our Society, whose father was my immediate predecessor in the rectory of Hadham, Herts, and whose grandfather Dr. Stanley, Dean of St. Asaph, had possessed the same benefice from 1690 to 1722, when he resigned it to his second son, Francis, my immediate predecessor. Dean Stanley had, in the early parts of his life, been chaplain to the Earl of Essex, and during his whole life was very much in the confidence of the family.