- KIRKE'S LAMBS
- the soldiers of Colonel Kirke, an officer of the English army in James the Second's time, distinguished for their acts of cruelty inflicted on the Monmouth party.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
KIRKE'S LAMBS
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