1645. The day book of the Commissioners sitting at Falstone, contains the following entry:

1660,

or

a little

William Lamb, in the behalf of Andrew Bowerman, of Stratford, Clerk, hath compounded for his Stock and personal Estate, for £80; paid in separate sums; dated 21st November, 1645. The wheat now sown upon the ground, being 44 acres, is included in this composition. Lamb further paid for one year's rent of Mr. Bowerman's Farm, Parsonage, and Mill, £40.

In a List of Wilts Gentry, (a short time after the death of Sir John Lambe), the name occurs but once; viz., later. William Lambe, of Coulston, Gent.; this would lead to the conclusion that John, the eldest son of Sir John, died young, and before his father; that William then became, as he is called in the above-quoted Letters of Administration, Heir, and succeeded his father at Coulston, when Sir John removed to Stratford-sub-Sarum; consequently, that this William, was the grandfather of Thomas and Meliora Lambe. Their father yet remains to be discovered.

1701. A fine passed between Henry Lambe, Quærent, and John Lambe and his wife, Deforciant; for Lands in

Coulston: possibly one of these may have been the father of Thomas and Meliora Lambe.

I shall feel much obliged by any additions or corrections, which will enable me to give as perfect a descent of Thomas and Meliora Lambe, from their known great grandfather, Sir John Lambe, as I have done in the case of Meliora Lambe's guardian, William Godolphin, (ob. 1781), from Ruth, Sir John's second daughter, which match may have led to the settlement of the Godolphin Family at Coulston. The dwelling of the Lambes stood in addock, at the west end of the churchyard, called to this day lawn; and there are other portions of land in the part their name is still associated.

Sir John Lambe's third daughter, Anne, is

John Bourman, of Stratford, Wilts, in

of the Lambes with which Sir Thomas Phillipps has kindly favored me; this may account for the old knight's removal to Stratford; there are no memorials of the Lambe Family there, nor do they appear to have ever held the estate of the Dean and Chapter at Stratford; the Letters of Administration alluded to, seem, however, to decide the question as to which of Sir John's sons continued the elder line of the family, and was the grandfather of Thomas and Meliora Lambe.

West Lavington, March 15th, 1856.

EDWARD WILTON.

The Old Market Bouse,

and Great Fire

at Marlborough.

By F. A. CARRINGTON, Esq.

There have been, within the last three hundred years, four successive Market Houses in the town of Marlborough, of which our illustration represents the third, built in 1653, and taken down in 1793.1

The earliest notice of these buildings, that the writer of the present article has met with, is to be found in the Chamberlains' accounts of the town for the year 1575, (18th Elizabeth), which contain an item of extensive repairs done to the "Guildhall" in that year.

This Elizabethan building appears to have been removed about the year 1630. There is in the Corporation books, under the date of April 5th, 1631, “An Order for erecting and building a new Market-house;" and in the Chamberlains' account for that year is an entry

£ 8. d. 350 0 0"

"Paid for building the Market House... and in the following year, there is an entry of a payment of

1 For the loan of the copper-plate, from which the Illustration is taken, the Society is indebted to the kindness of Mr. William C. Merriman, of Marlborough. 2 Printed in Waylen's "History of Marlborough," p. 125.