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THE CONSTABLES. 167
Church ;
the driver of the carriage which conveyed me there, some time
ago, did not even know where it was, though he had driven through Flamborough
many times. And yet the quaint old church is worth a visit, not
only for the sake of Sir Marmaduke's tomb, but also for the exquisitely
beautiful rood screen and loft. The latter has been placed against the
west wall, the better to preserve its delicate tracery, which is an elaborate
specimen of the perpendicular period, and, in the graceful carving of the
vine and foliage, equal to anything of that date in England.
Robert, the eldest of the four brothers, Marmaduke, William, and
John who with him were all knighted on the field of Flodden
succeeded his father. He married a daughter of Sir William Ingleby,
of Ripley and eventually, taking part in the rising in Lincolnshire under
;
Lord Hussey, was attainted and beheaded at Hull, and his body hung
in chains over the Beverley Gate ;
Flamborough, and thirty-five manors
in Lincolnshire being forfeited to the Crown. His son, Sir Marmaduke,
however, served Henry VIII. in his wars, was with him at the siege of
Teroven, and knighted by him at Lisle. In the first year of Edward VI.
he was made a knight-banneret in the camp of Roquesborough, by the
Earl of Surrey, and died in the second year of Queen Elizabeth, having
married Elizabeth, only daughter of Lord Darcy. The good Queen Bess
restored Flamborough to his son, Sir Robert, who was knighted by the
Earl of Sussex in 1570, in the expedition to Scotland to help King
James VI. against the Hamilton faction. I am sorry to be obliged to add
that he committed bigamy by marrying Dorothy, daughter of Sir John
Widdrington, while his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne,
was still alive. His son Robert succeeded him, circa 33rd year of Queen
Elizabeth ;
and his son Sir William was knighted for his services under the
Earl of Essex, in Ireland, 1599. James I. created him a baronet, but in the
succeeding reign he espoused the cause of the Parliament, was a colonel in
the Roundhead army, and his name appears in the warrant for the execution
of Charles I. He died during the Commonwealth, 1655, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey. He left no children, but the family name and honours
were carried on by his kinsman, Sir Philip, descended from Sir Marmaduke,
one of the four brothers knighted at Flodden. Sir Philip was created a
baronet by Charles I. in 1642, and after suffering severely in the Royal cause,
died 1664. His great-grandson, Sir Marmaduke, fourth and last baronet, died
unmarried, 1746, when the baronetcy became extinct, and his estates passed
to William Haggerstone, grandson of his only sister, Anne, who married
William Haggerstone, second son of Sir Thomas Haggerstone, whose wife
was Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Howard, of Corby.
And so the long and gallant race of Constable of Flamborough
terminated ; and nothing now remains of their ancestral hall, in which so
many distinguished generations had lived and died, but a fragment of an old
and crumbling tower, in the midst of the modern village of Flamborough.