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Lord High Constable

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  • This rash and inconsiderate young man endured with some impatience his sequestered residence with the Lord High Constable, with whose company, otherwise in every respect satisfactory, he became dissatisfied, from no other reason than that he held in some degree the character of his warder.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • The _Lord High Constable_ also attends the royal person, assists at the reception of the regalia from the dean and chapter of Westminster, and, together with the earl Marshal, ushers the champion into the hall.

    Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip

  • They held it for another six generations, until the third Duke of Buckingham, Lord High Constable under Henry VIII, ended the splendours of the Staffords on the scaffold.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • This rash and inconsiderate young man endured with some impatience his sequestered residence with the Lord High Constable, with whose company, otherwise in every respect satisfactory, he became dissatisfied, from no other reason than that he held in some degree the character of his warder.

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

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