John Constable (Jesuit)
John Constable was an English Jesuit controversial writer.
Life
In 1695 he entered the Society of Jesus. For many years he served the Fitzherbert family at Swinnerton, where he is buried.Works
Constable's chief controversial opponents were:- Pierre François le Courayer 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, who wrote, Constable maintained, with a prejudice against Jesuits.
- "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", against Joseph Trapp, The Church of England Defended Against the Calumnies and False Reasoning of the Church of Rome :
- "Doctrine of Antiquity concerning the Eucharist" by "Clerophilus Alethes" ;
- "Specimen of Amendments proposed to the Compiler of 'The Church History of England'", by "Clerophilus Alethes" ;
- "Advice to the Author of 'The Church History of England'", manuscript at Stonyhurst.