May 7. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



459 



and one last year somewhere in the north. Both 

 may be found by reference to the newspapers. 



Shirley Hibbebd. 



MAJOR-GENERAL LAMBERT. 



(Vol. vii., p. 269.) 



Lord Bratbrooke speaks of a tradition of 

 Major-General Lambert's having been imprisoned 

 in Cornet Castle, in the island of Guernsey, after 

 the Restoration. The following documents, copies 

 of which exist in Guernsey, will prove that he 

 really was kept as a prisoner in that island : 



Charles R. 

 Upon suite made unto us by Mrs. Lambert, for 

 liberty for herself and children to goe to and re- 

 maine w*** her husband Collonell Lambert yo' pri- 

 soner, Wee, graciously inclyninge to gratifye her 

 in that request, have thought fitt to signify our 

 royall pleasure to you in that particular, willing 

 and requiring you, upon sight hereof, to suffer the 

 said Mrs. Lambert, her three children, and three 

 maid-servants, to goe and remaine w"* the said 

 Mr. Lambert, under the same confinement he 

 himselfe is, uutill o"^ further pleasure be knowne. 

 And for soe doinge this shalbe y"" warrant. Given 

 at our Court at Whitehall, the 17'" day Febr., 

 1664. By his Ma'^ Comand, 



Edw. Nicholas. 

 To our right trusty and welbeloved Coun- 

 sello"" S' Hugh Pollard, K"' and Bar', 

 Governo' of our Island of Guernsey 

 and Castle there, or to other our Go- 

 vernor' for y^ tyme beinge, and in his 

 absence to his Deputy Governo''. 

 This is a true copie of his Ma*'^ Warrant. 



(Signed) Hugh Pollarde. 

 [In dorso.] 

 The King's order for Lambert's children. 



In 1662, Christopher Lord Hatton was ap- 

 pointed Governor of Guernsey, upon which the 

 following warrant was issued : 



Charles R. 



^ Our will and pleasure is. That you take into 

 your custody the person of John Lambert, com- 

 monly called Collonell Lambert, and keepe him 

 close prisoner, as a condemned traytor, untill 

 further order from us, for which this shall be 

 your warrant. Given at our Court at Hampton 

 Court, this 25'" day of July, 1662. 



By his Ma'y'' CoiTiand, 



Edw. Nicholas. 

 To our trusty and welbeloved Councellor 

 y* Lord Hatton, Governor of our Is' 

 land of Guernsey, and to the Lieute- 

 nant Governo'' thereof or his Deputy. 

 Lambert to Guernsey. 



Four months later the following order was 

 issued : 



Charles R. 



Our will and pleasure is. That from sight hereof 

 you give such liberty and indulgence to Collonell 

 John Lambert your prisoner, within the precincts 

 of that our island, as will consist with the security 

 of his person, and as in your discretion you shall 

 think fitt ; and that this favour be continued to 

 him till you receive our order to the contrary, 

 allvvayes understood, that he the sayd Collonell 

 Lambert show himself worthy thereof in his com- 

 portment, and entertaine noe correspondencyes to 

 the prejudice of our service, for which this shall 

 be your warrant. Given at our Court at White- 

 hall, November the eighteenth, one thousand six 

 hundred sixty-two, 



By his Ma'' command, 



Henrye Bennet. 



To our trusty and well-beloved Coun- 

 sellor the Lord Hatton, our govern' of 

 our Island of Guernsey, to his Leif- 

 tenant Governour, or other officer com- 

 manding in chief there. 



Liberty of the Island to Mr. Lambert. 



[In dorso.] 

 The King's order for Mr. Lambert's liberty. 



In Rees's Cycloprndia, art. Amaryllis, sect. 27., 

 A. Sarniensis, Guernsey lily, I find the following 

 statement : " It was cultivated at Wimbledon, in 

 England, by General Lambert, in 1659." As 

 Guernsey, during the civil wars, sided with the 

 Parliament, it is probable that Lambert procui'ed 

 the roots from some friend in the island. 



The exact date of his arrival as a prisoner in 

 Guernsey is fixed by a sort of journal kept by 

 Pierre Le Roy, schoolmaster and parish clerk of 

 St. Martin de la Bellouse in that island, who says: 



" Le 17' de 9vembre, 1661, est arrive au Chateau 

 Cornet, Jean Lambert, generall des rebelles secteres en 

 Angleterre, ennemy du roy, et y est constitue prisonnier 

 pour sa vie." 



There is no tradition in the island of his having 

 died there. I remember to have read, but cannot 

 at present remember where, that he died a Roman 

 Catholic. Edgar MacCulloch; 



Guernsey. 



[Lambert was removed to the island of St. Nicholas, 

 at the entrance of Plymouth Harbour, in 1667, where 

 his death took place during the hard winter aX the close 

 of 1682 or commencement of 1683. — See " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. iv., p. 840. Probably some of our readers in 

 that neighbourhood might, by a reference to the parish 

 registers, be enabled to ascertain the precise date of that 

 event.] 



