archa: or of the Office of the Justices of Peace, into two bookes: gathered 1579, and now revised and firste published,’ &c., 8vo, London, 1581. Written in a clear and unaffected style, this manual remained for a long time the standard authority (Fulbeck, Preparative, p. 64). Blackstone (1 Blk. Comm. c. 9) recommends its study. It was reprinted seven times between 1582 and 1610. To the last three editions was added ‘The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tithing-men, and such other Lowe Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be also adjoyned the severall Offices of Churchwardens, of Surveyors for amending the Highwayes,’ &c., another useful handbook by Lambarde, first published in 1583, 8vo, London, and reissued with additions six times between 1584 and 1610. An able and interesting letter from Lambarde to Burghley, dated 18 July 1585, ‘contayning reasons why her Majestie should with speed embrace the action of the defence of the Lowe Countries,’ is printed in Nichols's ‘Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica’ (vol. i. App. viii. pp. 527–9). In 1591 he completed another work, entitled ‘Archeion; or, a Commentary upon the High Courts of Justice in England,’ which was published in 1635 (8vo, London), by his grandson, Thomas Lambarde, from the author's manuscript. Another edition, of inferior authenticity, appeared in the same year.
On 22 June 1592 Lambarde was appointed a master in chancery by Lord-keeper Sir John Puckering, and made keeper of the records at the Rolls Chapel by Lord-keeper Sir Thomas Egerton on 26 May 1597. In 1597 he was nominated by William Brooke, lord Cobham, as one of his executors and trustees for establishing his college for the poor at Cobham, Kent (Archæologia Cantiana, xi. 206, 210, 214–15), and he drew up the rules for the government of the charity. He was personally noticed by the queen in 1601, and appointed on 21 Jan. keeper of the records in the Tower. On 4 Aug. of the same year he presented Elizabeth with an account of the Tower records, which he called his ‘Pandecta Rotulorum,’ and he has left behind a delightfully quaint note of their conversation in the queen's privy chamber at East Greenwich (Nichols, Bibliotheca, vol. i. App. vii. pp. 525–6).
Lambarde died at Westcombe on 19 Aug. 1601 and was buried in Greenwich Church. On the rebuilding of the church his monument was removed by his son Sir Multon Lambarde to Sevenoaks, then as now the family seat. His will is printed in ‘Archæologia Cantiana’ (v. 253–6). He married, first, on 11 Sept. 1570, Jane (1553–1573), daughter of George Multon of St. Cleres, Ightham, Kent; secondly, on 28 Oct. 1583, Sylvestra (1554–1587), widow of William Dallison and daughter and heiress of Robert Deane of Halling, Kent; and, thirdly, on 13 April 1592, Margaret, daughter of John Payne of Frittenden, Kent, widow first of John Meryam of Boughton-Monchelsea in the same county, and secondly of Richard Reder. He had issue by his second wife alone three sons and a daughter (Archæologia Cantiana, v. 247–53).
Many of Lambarde's manuscripts are at Sevenoaks, including several ‘Charges to Juries’ from 1581 to 1600, and a ‘Treatise of the service called the Office of Compositions for Alienations,’ 1590 (list in Nichols, Bibliotheca, vol. i. App. i. pp. 510–12). In the Cottonian manuscripts are his ‘Collectanea ex diversis antiquis historicis Anglicanis’ (Vesp. A. v. i.), his ‘Cycle of Years, from 1571 to 1600’ (Julius, c. ix. 105), and his ‘Letter to Camden,’ 1585 (Julius, c. v. 9).
[Nichols's Bibl. Top. Brit. i. 493–532, from the family papers; Hasted's Kent (Drake), i. 51–2; Marvin's Legal Bibliography; Smith's Bibliotheca Cantiana; Archæologia Cantiana, viii. 300, 301, 309; Lowndes's Bibl. Manual (Bohn), iii. 1301.]
LAMBART. [See also Lambert.]
LAMBART, CHARLES, first Earl of Cavan (1600–1660), the eldest son of Oliver Lambart, first baron Lambart in the Irish peerage [q. v.], and Hester, daughter of Sir William Fleetwood of Carrington Manor, Bedfordshire, was born in 1600. He is said to have been educated at Cambridge. On the death of his father on 23 May 1618 he became second Baron Lambart, and was given in wardship to his mother on 26 April 1619. On 8 Aug. 1622 he had a grant of 1,296 acres of land in Westmeath and King's County as part of a scheme for the plantation of Leinster. Lambart represented Bossiney, Cornwall, in the English parliaments of 1625 and 1627, and on 4 Nov. 1634 made his first appearance in the Irish House of Lords, where he frequently spoke. On 6 March 1627 he was appointed seneschal for the government of the county of Cavan and the town of Kells. Henceforth he lived in Ireland, and on 17 May 1628 he succeeded to the command of Lord Moore's company of foot. On the outbreak of the rebellion in 1641 Lambart's estates suffered very severely; in November of that year he raised a regiment of a thousand foot. On 12 Nov. 1641 he was one of those appointed to confer with the rebels in Ulster. Lambart now became a notable commander; he was with Ormonde in February 1643 at the rout of Kilsaghlan, and when in 1642 Sir Charles Coote
