104 Coffin Plates recently discovered at East Coulston, Wilts. 
Administration of the Effects of Thomas Lambe, of Trowbridge, 
Bachelor, (Coffin Plate, No. 2.), was granted to William Godolphin, 
Esq., the guardian of Meliora Lambe, sister and heir of Thomas 
Lambe. 
Roger Lambe, buried at Trowbridge, 1720, is the only person 
of the name recorded in the Registers there, and there is, at present, 
no evidence of his being related to the above-mentioned Thomas 
Lambe. 
The earliest part of the annexed Pedigree of Lambe, of Coulston, 
appears in the Visitation of the county of Wilts, 1628, as printed 
by Sir Thomas Phillipps; and supplementary information is now 
solicited from genealogists, to establish the fact stated on the Coffin 
Plate, No. 2., that Thomas Lambe who died 1741, was great grand- 
son of Sir John Lambe of Coulston. 
The Arms of Lambe, (as depicted on the Hatchment of Richard 
Long, Esq., in Steeple Ashton Church, (the second husband of 
Meliora Lambe), are as follows :— 
Sable, on a fess or, between three Cinquefoils argent, two 
mullets of the field. : 
Aubrey, (“Collections for Wilts,” II, 18,) in describing the 
Shields on the Tomb of Sir William Button, at Alton Priors, gives 
the name of Lambe to the Coat of Burrard. Both families had 
intermarried with the Buttons, and hence probably arose the mis- 
take. It is a matter of regret, that successive coats of whitewash, 
have now quite concealed the several Shields setting forth the 
alliances of the Buttons, as given by Aubrey in the above-men- 
tioned book. 
In Wilts Visitation, 1565— 
Adam Lambe, of Coulston, had in Goods £60. 
From the Manuscript Family History, compiled by Thomas 
Gore, of Alderton, now in the possession of Mr. Poulett Scrope, 
it appears that in 
1602. Edward Gore, of Surrendell, releases to John Lambe, of 
Coulston, all his Estate in certain lands at Steeple Ashton, 
Semington, Henton, and Littleton. 
1623. Sir John Lambe, Knight, was High Sheriff of Wilts. 
