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■who quitted their convents to embrace the reformed reli¬ 
gion, was defcended from a noble family, and born at 
Avignon in the year 14-87. At the age of fifteen, he en¬ 
tered among the friars minors, or Francifcans, and con¬ 
tinued in their community twenty years; during which 
time he acquired celebrity as a preacher, and was prefer¬ 
red to the poll of general of the order; or, as Bayle ra¬ 
ther imagines, to that of fuperior of a monaftery. Hav¬ 
ing, in the courfe of his inquiries, feen reafon to renounce 
the doCtrincs of the catholic church, and to adopt thofe 
of the reformation, he found it neceflary to withdraw 
from his native country, in the year 1522, and to retire 
into SwifTerland. In this country he preached the protef- 
tant doCtrines in various places, with much acceptance ; 
and, after continuing fome time at Bafil, where he ob¬ 
tained ftrong certificates in favour of his moral character, 
.went to vifit Luther at Wittemberg, in the year 1523. 
With that eminent reformer he grew into high efteem ; 
and it was projected that he Ihould go to Zurich, to affift 
in dilfeminating the principles of the reformation through 
France. It appears, however, that this million was thought 
proper to be exchanged for fome employment in the uni¬ 
versity of Wittemberg, where he molt probably continued 
till the year 1526. In that year, he was one of the prin¬ 
cipal perfons invited by the landgrave of Hefl'e, to efta- 
blilh the reformation in his dominions ; and, upon the 
foundation of the univerfity of Marpurg, in 1527, he was 
appointed to the chair of profeffor of divinity. He died 
in 1530, about the age of forty-three. He was the au¬ 
thor of, 1. Commentaries on Solomon’s Song, Hofea, 
Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk, 
3425, 8 vo. 2. Exegefis in Apocalypfin, printed at Bafil in 
1539, 8vo. 3. Antithefis Verb! Dei, et Inventorum Ho- 
tninum, 1525, 8vo. 4. De Prophetia, Eruditione, Lin- 
guis, See. 5. In Adda Apoltolorum, et Libros Regum. 
6 . Commentarii Evangelici in Regulam Minoritarum, 
Sec. 8vo. 7. Farrago omiurn fere Rerum Theologicarum, 
8vo. 8. Controverfial treatifes, &c. Bayle. 
LAM'BERT (John), a diftinguilhed parliamentarian 
general in the civil wars of Charles I. was defcended of 
a good family, and was a Undent of law at the commence¬ 
ment of the troubles. He added as a colonel at the battle 
of Marfton-Moor, and had a fuperior command at that of 
Nafeby. When the Scotch, under Hamilton, joined the 
royalift party, Lambert was oppofed to Langdale and 
-Mufgrave in the north, and gained feveral advantages 
over them. He was a favourite of the independent party, 
who endeavoured to obtain for him the lieutenancy of 
Ireland ; but the prelfcyterians carried it againlt him in fa¬ 
vour of Waller. He was much trulted by Cromwell, to 
whom only he was confidered as fecond in vigour and mi¬ 
litary talents, and whom he equalled in ambition. He 
ferved under him in Scotland, and gained a confiderable 
victory in Fife ; and, when the young king, Charles II. 
pufhed into England, he was difpatched to hang upon his 
rear with a body of cavalry. After the caufe of royalty 
was totally overthrown by the battle of Worcefter, to 
Lambert was entrulted the motion in the council of offi¬ 
cers for placing a protestor at the head of the ftate, which 
dignity of courfe fell upon Cromwell. He, however, op¬ 
pofed the delign of making Cromwell king, forefeeing that 
hereditary power would, by that means, be eftablilhed in 
Iris family, to the defeat of his own ambitious fchemes. 
This conduCt caufed him to be deprived, by the protec¬ 
tor, of all his commiffions, but with the allowance of a 
penfion of two thoufand pounds a-year for pa(t fervices. 
Upon this difmiffion he retired to Wiinbledon-houfe, 
where he feemed to have exchanged his afpiring-views 
for the humble ambition of excelling as a florift. But 
after the death of Cromwell he returned to public life, 
and formed the foul of the party of malcontents to the 
protectorate of Richard, which afiembled at Wallingford- 
houfe. He was employed by the parliament to quell the 
dangerous infurrettion of fir George Booth, in Chefhire, 
in which he completely fucceeded, and received the pre- 
fent of a thoufand pounds to purchafe a jewel. A petition 
to parliament which he inltigated his officers to draw up 
W'as confidered as fo dangerous by that body, that they 
immediately cafhiered him ; but Inch was his influence 
over the army, that he turned the balance againlt them, 
and procured the appointment of a committee of fafety, 
in which the fupreme power was vetted. The great rival 
of Lambert was Monk ; who now, being at the head of 
an army in Scotland, began to entertain the defign of re- 
ftoring the former monarchy. As he fell under fufpicion, 
Lambert advanced northward with a body of troops to 
overawe him. Monk, however, eroding the Tweed in Ja¬ 
nuary, 1660, while at the fame time the parliament had re¬ 
lumed their authority, Lambert was defected byalmolt the 
whole of his men, and foon after was arrefted, and com¬ 
mitted to the Tower. Hisfudden efcape, in April, threw 
Monk and the council into great alarm, as they dreaded 
his vigour and popularity ; but, before he could aflemble 
any confiderable number of the troops who were flocking 
to him on all fides, he was taken, near Daventry, by co¬ 
lonel Ingoldfby. At the reftoration, he, together with fir 
Henry Vane, though neither of them regicides, were ex¬ 
cepted from the ait of indemnity. He was brought to 
his trial, when he behaved with luch humble fubmiflion, 
that, though condemned, he was reprieved at the bar. 
He was then banilhed for life to the ifle of Guernfey, 
where he furvived above thirty years, forgetting and for¬ 
gotten. He died in the Roman-catholic faith. Hume. 
Walpole's Aaccd. 
LAM'BERT (Michael), was the favourite finging-maf- 
ter and compofer of fongs in France, about the middle 
of the feventeenth century. He had fo many fcholars, 
that he was obliged to teach a confiderable number at a 
time, and at his own houfe, where he formed a kind of 
academy, and where he finilhed every lelfon with finging, 
to his own accompaniment, feveral fongs to a brilliant 
and enraptured audience. Marcel, the celebrated dancing- 
mafter, did the fame, dancing with his belt fcholars at 
the end of the leflons which he gave at home on his pub¬ 
lic days. The reputation of Lambert, like that of Abe¬ 
lard, was fo great, that his pupils followed him into the 
country as far as Puteaux, where he had a villa. Lulli 
married the daughter of this mufician, who was born in 
1610, and died in 1696. 
LAM'BERT (Saint), publilhed, in 1702, “Les Princi- 
pes du Clavecin,” or InftruCtions for the Harpfichord, 
containing a clear explanation of all that concerns the 
clavier, or keys, in their rotation on that inftrument; 
and “ A Treatife of Accompaniment,” for many inltru- 
ments. 
LAM'BERT ( Anna-Therefa Marguenot de Courcelles, 
marchiones of), an illultrious literary lady, was born at 
Paris in 1647. Her father died while the was an infant, 
and her mother then married the ingenious Bachaumont. 
He took pains to cultivate the promifing talents of his 
ftep-daughter, and accuftomed her to make extracts from 
the books the read. She was united, in 1666, to Henry 
Lambert, marquis of St. Brie, then a captain in the army, 
and afterwards governor of Luxemburg. She loft him in 
1686, and was left with one fon and a daughter. She was 
involved in tedious law-fuits, in which her whole fortune 
was at flake, and by her addrefs brought them to a happy 
conclufion. At length, unembarrafied, and miltrefs of a 
confiderable eftate, Ihe fixed at Paris, and devoted herfelf 
to letters, and to the fociety of thofe who cultivated and 
honoured them. Her’s was-one of the few houfes not in¬ 
fected with the fpirit of gaming, and in which company 
met for the fake of rational converfation. Her heart was 
as warm as her underftanding was enlarged ; the ferved 
her friends with zeal, and delighted in acts of generality. 
The latter years of her life were clouded with fufterings, 
which the confolations of religion enabled her to fupport. 
She died in 1733, at the age of eighty-fix. The principal 
writingsof Madame de Lambert are, 1. Les Avisd’uneMere 
a fon Fils &afa Fille, 1729, tamo, thefe maternal precept? 
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