1621.] VISCOUNT DUNBAR. 



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of artfully concealing within the writing the successive years 

 of his age. Plantagenet Picrrepoint Carey, iith and present 

 Viscount Falkland, now represents this Newmarket creation. 



^^ Sir Henry Constable, of Burton Constable and Hal- 

 sham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the representative of 

 a very ancient and eminent family, was knighted by James I. 

 at the Tower of London, March 14, 1603-4. He succeeded 

 his father in 1608; "and," says Sir Bernard Burke (a weak 

 authority), " being a man of parts and learning, highly es- 

 teemed by James VI. {sic), was created a peer of Scotland, by 

 the title of ViSCOUNT OF DUNBAR, and Lord Constable by 

 patent dated at Newmarket, 14 November, 1620, to him and 

 his heirs male, bearing the name and arms of Constable ; " 

 while Nichols asserts that " his peerage, there is no doubt, 

 was purchased, as he appears to have had no other influence 

 about the court than that his wealth might produce." He 

 married Mary, second daughter of Sir John Tufton, Bart., of 

 Hothfield, county Kent, and sister of Nicholas, ist Earl of 

 Thanet, by whom he had issue three sons and two daughters. 

 Hedied in 1645. The title became dormant ^/rr^?' 1714, no heir 

 male general having appeared to claim it ever since. The 

 estates are now in the possession of Sir Thomas Aston Clifford- 

 Constable, Bart., of Tixall, county Stafford. 



On November 8, 162 1, the newsmongers in the 

 metropolis announced that the " king- has 1621. 

 gone to Newmarket," and on the 17th that November. 

 " he stayed longer than he intended at Royston, 

 Buckingham being ill, but is now at Newmarket ; " and 

 on the 1st of December they had the audacity to 

 assert that " his Majestys tarrying at Newmarket 

 amid so much business causes surprise." "It is much 

 marvayled," writes Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley 

 Carleton, "that so much business being now on foot 

 both at home and a broade, the King should kepe 



