185 Dunbar v Emerson

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185 DUNBAR V EMERSON

Henry Constable, 1st Viscount Dunbar, of Burton Constable, co. York v Richard Emerson

June - November 1636

Abstract

Proceedings survive from June and November 1636, but they do not reveal either the cause or result of Viscount Dunbar's complaint against Emerson.

Summary of proceedings

Dr Eden was counsel. This cause came before Sir Henry Marten on 3 June 1636, and there were further proceedings on 8 November 1636.

Notes

Henry Constable was created Viscount Dunbar, a Scottish title, in 1620. He came from one of the wealthiest families of the East Riding and was a staunch recusant with strong court connections. He helped to raise money for the war against the Scots in 1639 and supported the king in 1642, later serving as a colonel in the earl of Newcastle's army. He was the son of Sir Henry Constable and Margaret, daughter of Sir William Dormer of Wing, Buckinghamshire.

J. W. Binns, 'Henry Constable, first Viscount Dunbar (1588-1645)', Oxford DNB (Oxford, 2004); J. T. Cliffe, The Yorkshire Gentry from the Reformation to the Civil War (London, 1969), pp. 3, 11, 243, 289-90, 295, 344; B. English, The Great Landowners of East Yorkshire, 1530-1910 (Hemel Hempstead, 1990), passim .

Documents

  • Proceedings
    • Proceedings before Sir Henry Marten: College of Arms MS. 'Court of Chivalry' (act book, 1636-8) [pressmark R.R. 68C] (hereafter 68C), fos. 122r-124v (3 Jun 1636)
    • Proceedings: 68C, fos. 105r-110v (8 Nov 1636)

People mentioned in the case

  • Cavendish, William, earl of Newcastle
  • Constable, Henry, knight
  • Constable, Henry, viscount Dunbar
  • Constable, Margaret
  • Dormer, Margaret
  • Dormer, William, knight
  • Eden, Thomas, lawyer
  • Emerson, Richard
  • Marten, Henry, knight

Places mentioned in the case

  • Buckinghamshire
    • Wing
  • Yorkshire, East Riding
    • Burton Constable

Topics of the case

  • civil war
  • military officer
  • Roman Catholic
  • royalist
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