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So was his father, who rose from the mines to a constableship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edward III. bestowed its constableship upon the earls of Chester, and here Richard II. surrendered to Bolingbroke.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

In 1346 he was granted two marriages, in 1347, five marks a year, the tronagership of Lenn, and the constableship of Conisborough Castle.

From Chaucer's Official Life by Hulbert, James Root

"Say it is a—a Dunfermline baton, the sign of your constableship, and you will find the bill two inches shorter."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

Were it not for this constableship which the Earl of Salisbury hath bestowed upon us we could scarce uphold the state which is fitting to our degree.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir