JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



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The arms in the centre are those of Elias Paravicinni de 

 Capelle, which Rietstap blazons thus : — 



De gu. a un cygne d'arg. coll, d'une couronne d'or, la tete 

 surm. d'un chapeau du sec. lie de deux rubans houpes, 

 flottant a dextre et a sen. Cq. cour. 



Gimier. — Le cygne surm. du chapeau, iss. les ailes ouv. et 

 abaissees. 



Tenants. — A sen. un negre ceint d'un tablier, tenant de sa 

 main sen. un arc a cote de sa jambe, et de sa dextre une 

 fleche en barre devant son corps. 



D. — Candidior nive. 



Remarks. — The arms as depicted on the hatchment are 

 wanting in the details of the cap above the swan's head and 

 the coronet round its neck. 



Elias Paravicinni de Capelle was the son of Johan Caspar 

 Paravicinni de Capelle by his second wife Isabella Maria van 

 Woensel. He was born in Breda on the 29th July, 1733, and 

 came out to the Indies in the ship " Jonge Lieve." He was 

 Luitenant (Artillerie) 1764 ; Luit. Ingenieur der Artillerie, 

 Colombo, 1765 ; Kapitein, Colombo, 1767 ; Kapitein Ingenieur 

 der Artillerie, Trincomalee, 1771 ; ditto at Colombo, 1773 ; 

 Commandant, Calpentyn, 1774 ; Kapitein, Galle, 1782 ; Major 

 aud Chef der Artillerie, Colombo, 1795. He married firstly, 

 at Overschie, 6th December, 1762, Johanna van der Pool, and 

 secondly, in Colombo, on the 28th October, 1785, Theodora 

 Rudolphina de Wendt, of Batavia, widow of Iman Wilhelm 

 Falck, Governor of Ceylon. Maria Elizabeth Paravicinni 

 de Capelle, baptized in Calpentyn on the 4th May, 1778, 

 married in Colombo, 19th October, 1791, Pierre Joseph 

 Donzel, of Porrentrui in Switzerland, Captain, Regiment de 

 Meuron. 



Elias Paravicinni de Capelle represented himself as father 

 of this child at the baptism. 



For a pedigree of the Dutch branch of the family Paravi- 

 cinni de Capelle, see IV., Wapenheraut, 177. 



