ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 545- 



In 8th K. Henry IV, John Lambart was appointed fenefcal or fur- 

 veyor general of all the honours, lordQiips and caflles, of the 

 right honourable Henry de Bellomonte^ Lord Folkingham, within the 

 counties of York and Lincoln (b). 



''John Lambart was in great credit with K. Henry VIII, and em- 

 ployed by him on feveral occauons ; was appointed fccretary to 

 the embafTy of the Earl of Southampton into Scotland, and foon after 

 made fecretary to the council eftablimed in the North parts (c). 



There 



(I) Sciant prsefentes et futuri nos Htnricus de 'Belhm'Mte dominus de Folk'mgham, dedifTe et 

 hac prsefenti carta mea confirmafle ycbannl Lamlart, de Pre/ion, in com. Ebir. confangui- 

 neo meo, officium fenefcalli mei omnium mancriorum, dominiorum, et caflellorum noftro- 

 rum infra comitar. Lincoln, et Etsr. una cum feodo ftx marcarum communiter .folut. pro 

 com. Ebtr. et decem marcarum pro com. Lincoln, percipiend. annuatim et proficuis et perqui- 

 fitis curiae ibidem crefcent. liabend. et tenend. praediclum officium et fcoda fex marcarum, et 

 decem marcarum domino Jobanni de Lcimbart, et affignatis fuis, durante vita ipfius yobannis. 

 In cujus rei teftimoniam huic prsfenii cartae figillum noftrum appofiiimus. His teftibus, 

 yobanne Tame^ If'llliehito JPtkes, pilidbus, Henrico (fixes filio ejus, Thsma Clagm:nd, Albino 

 -de Enderby^ Willulmo Mitchell de Fe't/kney, yobanne Williams, et multN a'iis, anno regni rejjis 



HenricilV, poft conqueftum Svo. in fefto Tranfljtionis S. Tlumts Mariiris. MS. penes 



*, L. Midclleton, baronettum, de Belfay. 



,.(c) The copies of certain letters of K. PfenryVIll, to "John LambarL, fon of Cbrijlopbtr. 

 Ms. in the poflefli n of Sir "John Lambert Middkton, Bart. 



Signed, Henry Rx. 



A Warant Forafmuch as we fend this bearer John Lamba^t, Gent. (Ton of Cbrijlo- 



' in paper, and / pber Lambatt, of Skiptoi) with all poffible diligence upon certain our 

 figned with the [ weightie affaires into fundrye parres of this owre realme, owre ploa- 

 PRVY SEAL. fuie and high comandment is that imtnedlatelie upon the fight hereof, ye 



fee him furnifhed from tyme to t^me of fufHcient and able horfes for 'his journey at pryce re- 

 fonable, when and as often as he fnall have caufe, as yowe and every of yowe wil! anfwer 

 'for the contrary at yowre.moft extreme perills. givin under our fignet at owre caftell of 

 'ffyndfer the 20th day of oflobe;, the syth yeare of our reynge. 



Td all and fingular owre Mayors, BaylifFs, Sheriffs, and Conftables, and to all 

 other officers, Ministers, ;ind Subjeclis, and to every of them. 



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