Our will and pleasure is, That from sight hereof you give such liberty
and indulgence to Collonell John Lambert your prisoner, within the
precincts of that our island, as will consist with the security of his
person, and as in your discretion you shall think fitt; and that this
favour be continued to him till you receive our order to the contrary,
allwayes understood, that he the sayd Collonell Lambert show himself
worthy thereof in his comportment, and entertaine noe correspondencyes
to the prejudice of our service, for which this shall be your warrant.
Given at our Court at Whitehall, November the eighteenth, one thousand
six hundred sixty-two,
By his Ma^{ts} command,
HENRYE BENNET.
To our trusty and well-beloved Counsellor the Lord Hatton, our govern^r
of our Island of Guernsey, to his Leiftenant Governour, or other
officer commanding in chief there.
Liberty of the Island to Mr. Lambert.
[In dorso.]
The King's order for Mr. Lambert's liberty.
In Rees's _Cyclopædia_, art. AMARYLLIS, sect. 27., _A. Sarniensis_,
Guernsey lily, I find the following statement: "It was cultivated at
Wimbledon, in England, by General Lambert, in 1659." As Guernsey, during
the civil wars, sided with the Parliament, it is probable that Lambert
procured the roots from some friend in the island.
The exact date of his arrival as a prisoner in Guernsey is fixed by a sort
of journal kept by Pierre Le Roy, schoolmaster and parish clerk of St.
Martin de la Bellouse in that island, who says:
"Le 17^e de 9vembre, 1661, est arrivé au Château Cornet, Jean Lambert,
générall des rebelles sectères en Angleterre, ennemy du roy, et y est
constitué prisonnier pour sa vie."
There is no tradition in the island of his having died there. I remember to
have read, but cannot at present remember where, that he died a Roman
Catholic.