(1682 - 1747), s. and h. of Sir Philip Mark Constable of Everingham Park, Yorks; suc. fa. c.1710 as 4th Bt.; d. abroad; unm.
1732 - 4 Florence (20 Dec. 1732 - 1733), Rome (by 21 Mar.), Bologna (by end Mar.), Venice (by 22 May), Florence (by 28 Jun. - 7 Nov.) with visit to Pisa and Leghorn (Oct.); Rome (Nov. 1733 - Jan. 1734)
Sir Marmaduke Constable and [Richard?] Towneley were described on arrival in Florence as two rich Catholic gentlemen from Yorkshire, but, wrote Stosch 'comme l'un et l'autre ont pass? l'age de voyager pour plaisir, j'ai lieu de croire, qu'ils sont venus en Italie pour d'autres intrigues'.1 In February Towneley and Constable were no longer living together.2 Soon after arrival in Rome with the 6th Earl of Salisbury, Constable was visited by his relation Charles Radclyffe (a Jacobite).3 At the end of March 1733 Constable joined Towneley at Bologna for the opera.4 In May Constable, Towneley, Salisbury, Samuel Haynes and a Mr Goddard were listed at Venice, and by June some of them, including Constable, were in Florence.5 When Towneley left hurriedly for France in September, Constable was expected to go with him, but he was in Florence at the end of October 1733, having come from Leghorn and Pisa.6 In November Sir Marmaduke overlapped with a Mr Constable for three days in Florence before leaving for Rome with Salisbury and Haynes.7 According to Stosch, Sir Marmaduke was the only English visitor to Rome to attend the birthday feast the Pretender gave for his eldest son in January 1734.8 In September 1735 he was fined for absence by the Jacobite Lodge in Rome.9
Sometime before December 1738 Samuel Crisp met Sir Marmaduke in Lyons and received from him useful information on the journey to Italy.(10)
1. SP 98/32, f.470 (Walton, 20 Dec. 1732). Lewis 1961, 142. Spence Letters, 420. 2. SP 98/32 (Walton, 28 Feb. 1732). 3. Ibid., f.591 (21 Nov. 1733). 4. SP 98/34 (Skinner, 30 Mar. 1733). 5. SP 99/63, f.226 (Burges, 22 May 1733). SP 98/34 (Skinner, 28 Jun. 1733). 6. SP 98/34 (Skinner, 15 Sep. 1733). 7. SP 98/34 (Newsletter, Florence, 7 Nov. 1733). 8. Add.27736 (Walton, 4 and 30 Jan. 1734). 9. Hughan, 17. 10. Macnaghten, 1.