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_Josias (Or Joseph) LAMBERT _|
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At the very commencement of the struggle between King Charles I. And the Parliament he directed the siege of Skipton Castle. In January 1644, he was with Sir Thomas Fairfax at the battle of Nantwich; and on the 5th March 1644, being in command
of a regiment of dragoons, he defeated Colonel Bellasis at Bradford, and pursued him to Selby, and near Kirklees gained another victory. He then assisted Lord Fairfax at the siege of York.
He fought many minor battles in 1648, and was with Cromwell at the battle of Preston, where he defeated the Duke of Hamilton and Sir Marmaduke Langdale. In March 1649, Lambert was at Knottingley. In the same year he joined Lord
Fairfax,Major-General Skippton, Overton, and Desborough in striving to save the life of King Charles I.
In 1653 Lambert was returned one of the M P’s for the West Riding of Yorkshire. At the opening of the parliament General Lambert sat in the coach with the Lord Protectorand his son Henry, where the usual ceremonies at the opening of a
parliament were observed, and on alighting General Lambert carried the sword of state.
On the 19th October, in a Committee of the whole House upon the Act of Settlement, Lord Lambert, in a long speech, advocated that it was necessary to make the office of Protector hereditary.. Although he had been the principal means of raising
Cromwell to the Protectorate, he showed himself entirely opposed to the Protector being declared king, who, finding that his own relatives, Fleetwood, Desborough, &c., were also opposed, was compelled to give up, and on the 8th May, 1657,
formally renounced the idea.
From this time Cromwell considered Lord Lambert a declared enemy, and soon after deprived him of all his offices and employment’s; he thus lost his seat in council, the Lord Wardenship of the Cinque Ports, and other places about the court, a
regiment of cleverly and another of foot, the pay of major general in the army, and the pay attendant on that rank in the five northern counties.
Cromwell, fearing to make too much of an enemy of a man having so much interest among the soldiers, settled 2,000l. a year upon him; and he retired to his house at Wimbledon, where he devoted his time to the cultivation of flowers. Cromwell
soon after dissolved the Parliament, and did not live long enough to summon another, as he died on the 3rd September, 1658.
Richard Cromwell succeeded, and a parliament was called for the 7th January, 1659. Lambert being elected as Member for Pontefract (? Aldborough), under the title of John Lord Lambert, he was yet again named upon all public committees, and was
as active and resolute as ever in defence of the Constitution which had taken so much trouble to establish.
In 1659 Richard dissolved both council and parliament, and soon after resigned the Protectorship; and a conspiracy and insurrection of the old loyalists being discovered in Cheshire, Lord Lambert was appointed to take command of the army to put
it down, and at a battle near Northwich, on the 16th August, entirely routed and defeated Sir George Boothand the insurgents, and quelled the insurrection. The arliment for this service resolved, "That a jewel of one thousand pounds’ value,
with a letter of thanks, be presented to the Lord Lambert, as a mark of favour for this signal service." In September he left Cheshire, and retired to his seat in Craven.
In November, 1659, General Monk appeared with his army on the borders of Scotland, and Lord Lambert was deputed to meet him, and would have fought him at Newcastle; but, against his advice, a treaty was projected between Monk and the Council of
State, which ended in the restoration of the Stuart family to the throne. Lambert returned to London, and was by Monk’s intrigues committed a prisoner to the tower; from whence he contrived to escape, but was seized at Daventry by Colonel
Ingoldsby.
Lord Lambert was elected member for Ripton in two parliaments, but was not allowed to take his seat. He was not concerned in the trial or execution of King Charles I., but he was, in spite of efforts made by the House of Commons, kept in close
confinement in the Channel Islands. He was conveyed to the island of Guernsey in October, 1660, and confined in Castle Cornet. On the 17th February, 1661-2, a licence was granted to Mrs Lambert, with her three children and three
maid-servants, to go to Guernsey and remain with her husband.
In April, 1662, General Lambert was, with Sir Henry Vane, brought to England and tried in June 1662; and in the 25th July a warrant was issued to Lord Hatton, the governor of the island of Guernsey, to take into his custody "the person of John
Lambert, commonly called Colonel Lambert, and keep him a close prisoner as a condemned traytor until further orders." On the 18th November following, directions were given from the king to Lord Hatton to "give such liberty and indulgence to
Colonel John Lambert within the precincts of the island as will consist with the security of his person"
On the 3rd December, 1667, the petition of Mrs Lambert that Colonel Lambert and herself might take a house for themselves and family (viz, ten children) to live in, leave was given, he passing his word, or giving security, to remain a true
prisoner.
This licence seemed to have been revoked, and in February, 1667-8, Colonel Lambert appears to have bee in bad health, and leave was given to Frances Lambert, who married Charles Hatton, son of Lord Hatton, the Governor of Guernsey; who
petitioned the king on the subject, and stated that the match was made entirely without his knowledge, and that becoming aware of the marriage more than a year afterwards he turned his son out of doors, and never since gave him a penny)
It has until recently been considered that Lambert died in Guernsey, but in 1667 he was removed to St Nicholas Island (otherwise called Drake’s Island), in Plymouth Sound, at the entrance to the Hamoaze, and he died there in the severe winter
of 1683.
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_Fleury Asquet VERMET _
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|_Judith VEILLON _______