Hacket's Life of Lord Keeper Williams, p. 115, pt. 1, fo.
The narrative furnished by Buckingham, and vouched by the prince to the parliament, agrees in the main with what the duke told Gerbier. It is curious to observe how the narrative seems to have perplexed Hume, who, from some preconceived system, condemns Buckingham "for the falsity of this long narrative, as calculated entirely to mislead the parliament." He has, however, in the note [T] of this very volume, sufficiently marked the difficulties which hung about the opinion he has given in the text. The curious may find the narrative in Frankland's Annals, p. 89, and in Rushworth's Hist. Col. I. 119. It has many entertaining particulars.
Letter from J. Mead to Sir M. Stuteville, June 5, 1628. Harl. MSS. 7000.
Memoirs of James II. vol. ii. p. 163.
This was afterwards reduced to the sum of 1500 marks, and was collected by an assessment and fine. The old account-books of the City companies afford many items of the monies thus paid to the general fund. The Carpenters' Company, for instance, have this entry in their books: "Paid in January, 1632, for an assessment imposed on our Companie, by reason of the death of Dr. Lambe ... V. li."
Rushworth has preserved a burthen of one of these songs:—
Let Charles and George do what they can,
The duke shall die like Doctor Lambe.
And on the assassination of the Duke, I find two lines in a MS. letter.—
The shepherd's struck, the sheep are fled!
For want of Lambe the wolf is dead!
There is a scarce tract entitled "A brief Description of the notorious Life of John Lambe, otherwise called Dr. Lambe," with a curious wood print of the mob pelting him in the street.