163G.] S/A' WILLIAM CONSTABLE. 183 



"'" Sir William Constable, son and heir of Sir Robert 

 Constable of Flamborough, Yorkshire, and Dorothy, daughter 

 of Sir John Widdrington, Knight, and relict of Sir Roger 

 Fenwick, Knight, who for his services under the Earl of 

 Essex (a.D. 1599) in Ireland, received the honour of knight- 

 hood. Being involved in the subsequent proceedings of that 

 nobleman, he was arraigned for high treason, but remanded 

 without trial, on a special letter from Queen Elizabeth, that 

 he and others were unwarily drawn in. On the 20th of 

 March following he had her Majesty's warrant to Sir John 

 Popham, Knight, Lord Chief Justice, to be admitted to bail. 

 Sir William was created a baronet by James I., June 29, 161 1, 

 and served in Parliament to the time of his decease. He 

 married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Thomas Fairfax, and 

 became an enthusiastic upholder of the liberty of the 

 subject, and being imprisoned on account of the detestable 

 and illegal shipmoney, adopted a decided part against the 

 king. He was a colonel in the Parliamentary army, and his 

 name appears in the warrant for the execution of Charles I. 

 He died during the Interregnum, June 15, 1654-5, and thus 

 escaped personally the resentment of the restored monarch ; 

 but his lands, etc., were especially exempted in the general 

 pardon granted by Charles II., as likewise all pains, penalties, 

 etc., as though the act of grace had never passed. Having 

 no issue the baronetage at his decease became extinct. 



^^■^ Probably one of the PICKERINGS of Whaddon, county 

 Cambridge ; the manor having been bought, in 1648, by 

 Henry Pickering, Esq., created a baronet in 1661 ; the title 

 became extinct by the death of Sir Henry, the second 

 baronet, in 1705 ; his widow sold the manor of Whaddon, 

 in 1 7 16, to Edward, Lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, 

 of whom it was purchased by Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. 

 The manor house of Whaddon, which had been the seat of 

 the Pickerings, was pulled down early in the present century. 



The word " race " does not in all cases apply to 

 the modern interpretation of the term "race-course." 



