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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