John Lambe 1566?-1647

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Sir John LAMBE 1566?-1647

Biographical Note

Dean of the Arches.

Books

Gave 21 manuscripts to William Laud in 1632, which he passed on to the Bodleian Library. More than 115 books were seized from him by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643, and partly sold.

Sources

  • Fielding, J. "Lambe, Sir John (c. 1566–1646), civil lawyer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Fuggles, J. Sir John Lambe’s manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Bodleian Library Record 10 (1979), 109-12.
  • Roy, I. The libraries of Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway, and others, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 43 (1968), 35-46.