CAPUCHIN, OR SAPAJOU MON

KEYS (Cebus), a genus of New World monkeys of family Cebide; found from Central America to south of Brazil, and often in menageries, cowl), an offshoot from the Francis cans, officially styled ‘Friars Minor of the Order of St. Francis, _Capuchin’, founded in early part of XVI. cent. by — Matteo di Ba i, who adopted a pyra~ — ‘midal hood, grew a, went bare- — foot, and goter ra reverted to a more — rigid system of living than was then | observed by the Francis cans. The re- — ligious authorities attempted to suppre j these innovations, but they were eventu- | ally ratified by Clement VII, 1528. The. - Capuchins wear a brown habit, and are still a flourishing body in many parts of the world. Veronese families unknown to history. Their story as told in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is taken from Bandello, whose account of the Cappelletti and Montecchi was trans. into Eng. verse, 1562, by Brooke.