Robert Constable, III

Robert Constable, III was baptized at Datchet on 9 September 1590. He apprenticed on 7 December 1607, at the age of 17 to maternal uncle Robert Barker, printer to James I of England. Robert Barker, II, who, holding the Bible patent that he had inherited from his father, in 1611 printed the first edition of the King James Bible while Robert & Francis were still apprentices. Francis became a "freedman" (a full member) of the Stationers Company on 2 July 1614. His elder brother Robert became a "freedman" on 12 December 1614.