He published items of the religious literature that was so common in the era, like Alexander Ross's Three Decades of Divine Meditations (1630).
He published Peacham's Thalia's Banquet in 1620, and his elegy Thestylis Astrata in 1634; and Glapthorne's poem Whitehall in 1643.
[5] And Constable also issued works of social criticism and contemporary controversies, like Machiavel's Ghost, as He Lately Appeared to His Dear Sons, the Modern Projectors (1641; attributed to John Taylor the Water Poet).
He issued one notable volume in the utopian literature, Samuel Hartlib's A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria (1641) – plus a supply of political and legal materials involving the start of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth era.
[6] Francis Constable and his wife Alice had fifteen children:[7] An interesting claim is made in many genealogies that one of Francis's daughters, Anne Constable, married Richard I Lee, an important figure in the colony of Virginia,[9] who was the ancestor of Confederate General, Robert E.
Francis's father Robert Constable was admitted to the College at Cambridge University at the age of 18 in March 1574.
The Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, 1349–1897 further tells us that Francis's father Robert Constable was a lawyer and a barrister as he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in February 1582.
There was a statute passed in 1593 that determined penalties against "Popish Recusants" including fines, property confiscation, and imprisonment.
Further the Popish Recusants Act 1605 forbade Roman Catholics from practising the professions of law and medicine.
This would explain why Francis and his brother Robert Constable went into the printing trade of their maternal uncle rather than follow their father into law.