John Constable (born in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

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, 10 November 1676 or 1678; died 28 March 1743) was an English Jesuit controversial writer.

Life

In 1695 he entered the Society of Jesus. For many years he served the Fitzherbert

Fitzherbert

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 family at Swinnerton, where he is buried.

Works

Constable's chief controversial opponents were:

• the Abbé Courayer (1681–1776; Dict. Nat. Biog. XII, 328) who championed Anglican orders, came over to England in 1728, was lionized, and eventually buried in the cloisters of Westminster; and
• Charles Dodd, a pseudonym of Hugh Tootell
  Hugh Tootell
  Hugh Tootell was an English Catholic historian. He is commonly known under his pseudonym Charles Dodd....
  
  , who wrote, Constable maintained, with a prejudice against Jesuits.

The chief writings of Constable are:

• "Remarks on Courayer's Book in Defense of English Ordinations, wherein their invalidity is fully proved", an answer to Courayer's "Dissertations" of 1723;
• "The Stratagem Discovered to show that Courayer writes 'Booty', and is only a sham defender of these ordinations", by "Clerophilus Alethes" (8vo, 1729), against Joseph Trapp
  Joseph Trapp
  Joseph Trapp was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer. His production as a younger man of occasional verse and dramas led to his appointment as the first Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1708. Later his High Church opinions established him in preferment and position...
  
  , The Church of England Defended Against the Calumnies and False Reasoning of the Church of Rome (1727):
• "Doctrine of Antiquity concerning the Eucharist" by "Clerophilus Alethes" (8vo, 1736);
• "Specimen of Amendments proposed to the Compiler of 'The Church History of England'", by "Clerophilus Alethes" (12mo, 1741);
• "Advice to the Author of 'The Church History of England'", manuscript at Stonyhurst.

Joseph Gillow

Joseph Gillow

Joseph Gillow was an English Roman Catholic antiquary and bio-bibliographer, "the Plutarch of the English Catholics"....

enumerates a few other writings by Constable.