Career
Sometimes known as "Constant Overton". He and six others who were present were ultimately brought before Bridgnorth Assizes, where they were fined for contempt of court in refusing to remove hats. They were each fined £40 and remained in prison for three months until the fines were paid.
He was one of the signatories (as Constant Overton) of a printed account of the case, published in London in 1657
After the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, he had further imprisonments and fines as late as the 1670s.
In 1675 the Society of Friends appointed Overton as one of the representatives in Shropshire to meet to report on persecutions of their co-religionists.
