Later Life
In 1667 Lambert was transferred to Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound, at the entrance to the Hamoaze, and he died there during the severe winter of 1683-84. The site of his grave is now lost but he was laid to rest at St Andrews Church in Plymouth on 28 March 1684.
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