town of France, in Picardy, and in the Tierache, eight miles from Guise. It was taken by the Spaniards in 1636; but retaken the year after. E. Long. 3° 59'. N. Lat. 49° 58'.

Capellets. See Farriery Index.

Capellus, Lewis, an eminent French Protestant divine, born at Sedan in Champagne about the year 1579. He was author of some learned works; but is chiefly known from the controversy he engaged in with the younger Buxtorf concerning the antiquity of Hebrew points, which Capellus undertook to disprove. His Critica Sacra was also an elaborate work, CAPEROLANS, a congregation of religious in Italy, so called from Peter Caperole their founder, in the 15th century.

The Milanese and Venetians being at war, the enmity occasioned thereby spread itself to the very cloisters. The superiors of the province of Milan, of minor brothers, which extended itself as far as the territories of the republic of Venice, carried it so haughtily over the Venetians, that those of the convent of Brescia resolved to shake off a yoke which was grown insupportable to them. The superiors, informed of this, expelled out of the province those whom they considered as the authors of this design; the principal of whom were Peter Caperole, Matthew de Tharvillo, and Bonaventure of Brescia. Peter Caperole, a man of an enterprising genius, found means to separate the convents of Brescia, Bergamo, and Cremona, from the province of Milan, and subject them to the conventuals. This occasioned a law suit between the vicar general and these convents, which was determined in favour of the latter; and these convents, in 1475, by the authority of Pope Sixtus IV, were erected into a distinct vicariate, under the title of that of Brescia. This not satisfying the ambition of Caperole, he obtained, by the interposition of the doge of Venice, that this vicariate might be erected into a congregation, which was called from him Caperolans. This congregation still subsists in Italy, and is composed of 24 convents, situated in Brescia, Bergamo, and Cremona.