Lamb
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Lamb. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES, an English au- CES, an English author; born in London, England, Feb. 10, don, England, Feb. 10, ucated at Christ's was educated at Christ's 1775. He Hospital. He obtained an appointment d an appointment in the South-Sea House, in 1789, which so, in 1789, which he quitted in 1792, for the East India in 1825, for the East India Company, from which he retired annum. th he retired in 1825, 1,250 per annum. A A on a pension of $2,250 per for confirmed bachelor, he resided the an accomhe resided for the great part of his life with house at life with an accomplished sister. Their pleasant of a most heir pleasant house at Islington was the first resort included st resort of a most brilliant literary coterie which Wordsworth, coterie which included Coleridge, Lloyd, Southey, Procter, and Wordsworth, Dyer, Barton, Leigh Hunt, Procter, and Hood, Godwin, Hazlitt, Talfourd, De the theologian. Of Talfourd, De Quincy and Manning is the "Esologian. Of his works the most eminent is the "Essays of Elia" (1823). This work was Essays of work was supplemented by the "Last was also the au- Essays of Elia," in 1833. Lamb , etc., as also the author of innumerable essays, poems of says, poems, etc. contributed to the magazine literature England, zine iterature of his day. He died in Edmonton, Eimenton, England, Dec. 27, 1834. LAMBALLE ( long - THÉRÈSE LOUISE CARIGNAN, PRINCESSE DE, French princess; a Prince of Carignan; born 8, 1749. She was made toinette superintendent household, and her friend iend and ion. Princess Lamballe le proved votion by returning to Frsaco. CHARLES LAMB she had escaped to England) after the ngland) af unsuccessful flight from Versailles, by om Versail sharing the queen's imprisonment for a aprisonment week in the Temple, and finally by reand Anally fusing to take the oath expressing deth expressi testation of the king, g, queen, and monquen, ane archy (Sept. 3, 1792). As she stepped out of the court room on that fatal day on that fa she was cut down, and her head on a ad hur hea pike was paraded before the queen's wine the queen dows.
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1920)
Dr. Lamb was a noted sorcerer in the time of Charles the First. The famous Richard Baxter, in his Certainty of the World of Spirits, printed in 1691, has recorded an appropriate instance of the miraculous performance of this man. Meeting two of his acquaintance in the street, and they having intimated a desire to witness some examples of his skill, he invited them home with him. He then conducted them into an inner room, where presently, to their no small surprise, thev saw a tree spring up in the middle of the apartment. They had scarcely ceased wondering at this phenomenon, when in a moment there appeared three diminutive men, with little axes in their hands for the purpose of cutting down this tree. The tree was felled; and the doctor dismissed his guests, fully satisfied of the solidity of his pretensions. That very night, however, a tremendous hurricane arose, causing the house of one of the guests to rock from side to side, with every appearance that the building would come down, and bury him and his wife in the ruins. The wife in great terror asked "Were you not at Dr. Lamb's to-day?" The husband confessed it was true. And did you not bring something away from his house ? The husband owned that, when the little men felled the tree, he had picked up some of the chips, and put them in his pocket. Nothing now remained to be done but to produce the chips, and get rid of them as fast as they could. This ceremony performed, the whirlwind immediately ceased, and the remainder of the night passed quietly. 66 دو Dr. Lamb at length became so odious by his reputation for these infernal practices, that the populace rose upon him in 1640, and tore him to pieces in the streets. Nor did the effects of his ill-fame terminate here. Thirteen years after, a woman, who had been his servant maid, was apprehended on a charge of witchcraft, was tried, and in expiation of her crime was executed at Tyburn.