By the Rev. E. Wilton. 105 
1645. The day book of the Commissioners sitting at Falstone, 
contains the following entry :— 
William Lamb, in the behalf of Andrew Bowerman, of 
Stratford, Clerk, hath compounded for his Stock and 
personal Estate, for £80; paid in separate sums; dated 
21st November, 1645. The wheat now sown upon the 
ground, being 44 acres, is included in this composition. 
Lamb further paid for one year’s rent of Mr. Bowerman’s 
Farm, Parsonage, and Mill, £40. 
1660, In a List of Wilts Gentry, (a short time after the death 
of Sir John Lambe), the name occurs but once; viz., 
later. William Lambe, of Coulston, Gent.; this would lead to 
the conclusion that John, the eldest son of Sir John, died 
young, and before his father; that William then became, 
as he is called in the above-quoted Letters of Administra- 
tion, Heir, and succeeded his father at Coulston, when 
Sir John removed to Stratford-sub-Sarum; consequently, 
that this William, was the grandfather of Thomas and 
Meliora Lambe. Their father yet remains to be discov- 
ered. 
1701. A fine passed between Henry Lambe, Querent, and John 
Lambe and his wife, Deforciant; for Lands in 
Coulston: possibly one of these may have been the father 
of Thomas and Meliora Lambe. 
I shall feel much obliged by any additions or corrections, which 
will enable me to give as perfect a descent of Thomas and Meliora 
Lambe, from their known great grandfather, Sir John Lambe, as 
I have done in the case of Meliora Lambe’s guardian, William 
Godolphin, (ob. 1781), from Ruth, Sir John’s second daughter, 
which match may have led to the settlement of the Godolphin 
Family at Coulston. The dwelling of the Lambes stood in a pad- 
dock, at the west end of the churchyard, called to this day Lambe’s 
lawn ; and there are other portions of land in the parish, with which 
their name is still associated. 
Sir John Lambe’s third daughter, Anne, is called wife of Dr. 
John Bourman, of Stratford, Wilts, in some genealogical notices 
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