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Constable was executed at Hull 6 July 1537 being hanged in chains over Beverley gate at Hull and thereby forfeited Flamborough and 35 other manors in Lincolnshire.


Voiced by the Duke of Norfolk

"On Frydaye, beyng market daye at Hull, Sir Robert Constable suffre, and dothe hang above the highest gate of the towne, so trymmed in cheynes, that I thinke his bones will hang there this hundrethe yere. And on Thursdaye, which shall be market daye, God willing, I will be at the execution of Aske at Yorke".


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